Kate Sessions Memorial Park
Kate Sessions Memorial Park is large park on Mount Soledad, in San Diego, California in San Diego County. The parks is named after Kate Sessions, Sessions was a botanist, horticulturalist, and landscape architect who lived and worked in San Diego. Sessions is known as the "Mother of Balboa Park." Sessions started as school teacher and worked in a flower shop before becoming San Diego's head botanist.The park as many walking trails, picnic tables, BBQ, natural habitat, rest rooms, a seasonal creek and the Kate Sessions Park playground. The park also as dog friendly places. From the park there are views of Mission Bay, the Pacific Ocean and the city. The park was make at Sessions request and was orgainally called the Soledad Terrace Park in 1957 the park was renamed Kate Sessions Memorial Park on Sessions 100th birthday.The address of the park is 5115 Soledad Road, San Diego, California.Sessions has a California Historical Landmark No. 764 listed on April 28, 1961, at the corner of Garnet Ave and Pico Street in San Diego, where her Nursery was.
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92109 San Diego, Pacific Beach
California, United States
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