Coronado is a resort town located in the county of San Diego, southern California, USA. It sits on a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay and is connected by the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge to San Diego. Established in the 1880s, it was incorporated in 1890. The “island”, as many locals term it is actually a peninsula linked by a neck of land called the Silver Strand to the mainland. Crown City, as it is named (Coronado means ‘crowned one in Spanish), sees itself as a friendly, small-town lined with Victorian homes and Californian bungalows, with large leafy streets. And they imagine San Diego to be somewhere else.
Coronado is a related island linked to the mainland by the Silver Strand, a thin strip of land. Named after Los Coronados, a group of offshore Mexican islands, it developed as a residential beach resort around the ornate Hotel del Coronado (completed in 1888; a national historical landmark), and tourism remains one of the key industries of the town. John D. Spreckels began a holiday/tourist area south of the hotel in 1900. He called it the City of the Tent. The tents became cottages, but by 1940, they were finally torn down.
(The sun rises over the San Diego–Coronado Bridge)
The island’s total land area is 32.6 square miles, with water accounting for 24.9 of those miles. Coronado had streetcars operating on Orange Avenue back in the 1910s. Up until their retirement in 1939, these streetcars were a staple of the area. Geographically, Coronado is a peninsula and is connected to the mainland with the aid of a strip of land called the Silver Strand. The Silver Strand, Coronado, and San Diego Bay’s North Island. Coronado Island is best known for the Coronado Flower Show and local festivals. It is always held in April on the third weekend. It began in 1925 as an annual festival.
Supplementing the financial system are the U.S. Naval Air Station North Island (1917), on the northern tip of the peninsula, and the Naval Amphibious Base Coronado (1943; where the U.S. Navy SEALs train), on the Silver Strand sandbar, which connects the peninsula to the mainland. On the northwest side of Coronado, the “Country Club” area, the “Glorietta” area and golf course on the southeast side of Coronado, much of the Coronado Naval Amphibious Base, much of the Strand Naval Housing, and most of the Coronado Cays were constructed on soil dredged from San Diego Bay (all on the south side of Coronado).
The island is small sufficient to stroll nearly anywhere it is solely a mile from the San Diego Bay side of the peninsula to the ocean. There are additionally exceedingly flat paths suit for each cyclist and skaters and even more miles of bike routes alongside metropolis streets. Coronado has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated as “BSk” on climate maps, according to the Köppen climate classification system. The island, including Tim Thomerson, Kevin Kenner, and Chad Fox, is well known for its notable inhabitants. Real estate is very costly in the city of Coronado. Coronado’s beaches have been her fortune for well over a century. The main cove, Coronado Central Beach, extends 1.5 miles along Ocean Boulevard behind the great homes.
(Beach view at Coronado, California)
Tourism is an important part of the economy of Coronado. Three major resorts (Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Island Marriott, and Loews Coronado Bay Resort) and several other hotels and inns are located in this area. Swimmers, bodysurfers, boogie boarders, sand sculptors, tide poolers, and whale watchers all take to the sand and sea from December through February. In the morning, North Beach draws surfers, and Dog Beach is in the far north, where leashless canines will frolic in the surf.
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