I know that Escondido isn't technically part of San Diego but sometimes you just need to branch out and expand your horizons. Just around the corner from the North County Fair Mall and across from San Pasqual High School is one of the most magnificent parks that I've ever seen. Kit Carson Park is so much more than that and I honestly didn't even know it existed/what it offered for a very long time. Even when I lived in Escondido.
If you bring the right attitude and the proper supplies, you could kill infinite amounts of time in this park and feel great afterwards. First off, it's enormous. When you're walking around the grounds, it feels like the park truly never ends, as you pass by duck ponds, grass mounds and picnic areas, sculptures, gardens, and hiking trails. Not to mention to tennis courts, soccer fields, softball fields, and playgrounds. The park is fairly tucked away too so you're not up against a road, in the public eye. You can remain relatively secluded if you so choose.
So just having a picnic is a really cheap and fun thing to do in this park. It provides a great enviroment for it and gives you lots of location options for where to set up shop.
After that though is what I think is the biggest enticement/incentive to drag yourself all the way up the freeway to Escondido for. Queen Califa's Magical Circle sculpture garden. This garden is the architectural dream of Niki de Saint Phalle and it was her last large scale international project. You'll find that it covers a decent amount of ground as you walk around the enclosed circular area, in and among these huge, colorful, sometimes trippy figures and shapes. The best part is, it isn't look and don't touch art. You can climb in, on, up, and through these pieces and amuse yourself for a good couple of hours. There are walls to scale, snake mouths to sit in, and little holes to burrow through.
It's very unique and the fact that it's outdoors makes it even more so I think. A lot of the pieces are coated in mosaic-esque tiny mirrors that in the sun create a really loud, inviting scene.
Give Kit Carson a try. You won't be dissapointed.
i will, thanks!
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