Crown Point Park Mission Bay(Crown Point Beach, Crown Point Shores)

Located on the eastern side of the Crown Point peninsula, Crown Point Park is a popular recreational grassy park that has an unnamed beach with light brown sand. This beach is also known as Crown Point Park Beach, Crown Point Beach, and Crown Point Shores. Crown Point Park is a part of a larger municipal aquatic park named Mission Bay Park. Crown Point Park has lifeguards from the beginning of the local academic spring break to the month of October. It is important to note that lifeguard deployment around the beach is generally on weekends except during summers when lifeguards are deployed around the beach daily. 

The park has many other amenities including restrooms, showers, picnic tables, a covered picnic spot, volleyball courts, basketball courts, barbecue spots, a children’s playground, a biking path, fire pits, and boat launching facilities. Dogs on leash are allowed in the park before 9 am and after 6 pm between April and October. Between November and March, dogs are allowed before 9 am and after 4 pm.

Crown Point Park offers many fun activities including biking, sunbathing, beachcombing, volleyball, basketball, wildlife watching, picnicking, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, paddleboarding, stand-up paddleboarding, boating, jet skiing, surf skiing, and waterskiing. The generally calm water near the beach in Crown Point Park makes it ideal for amateur swimmers, kayakers, canoers, and paddleboarders. The water near Crown Point Park is also popular among water-skiers. Another popular activity on the beach in Crown Point Park is beach volleyball - many exciting volleyball tournaments are organized on the beach in Crown Point Park throughout the year. Depending on the time of the year, you can see many kinds of shorebirds around Crown Point Park. Crown Point Park also offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the San Diego coastline. Fire pits present in Crown Point Park also offer an amazing waterfront bonfire session. However, if you are planning to organize a bonfire in Crown Point Park, you can visit the city of San Diego’s official website to obtain more information about the bonfire regulations in Mission Bay Park. Crown Point Park is also popular with families as it has picnic tables and a children’s playground.

Getting to Crown Point Park is easy - the park is situated near 3700 Crown Point Drive, and three large free parking lots are also available near the park. It is important to note that the parking lots near the park close at 10 pm and Crown Point Park itself is open between 4 am to 2 am.

There are many attractions near Crown Point Park. The nearby streets of Garnet Avenue and Grand Avenue feature a vivid collection of clothing stores, novelty shops, and restaurants. On Tuesdays, a local Farmer’s Market is held near Bayard Street between Grand Avenue and Garnet Avenue between 2 pm - 6:30 pm which offers some of the finest fresh local produce, gourmet dishes, and handicrafts in San Diego County. The Crystal Pier is a wooden pier that is an excellent pier-fishing spot and offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Pacific Ocean. If you are looking for another attraction near Crown Point Park, Mission Bay Golf Course and Practice Center has an 18-hole golf course that offers a challenging session of golf.

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Crown Point Park. Oceana Coastal Kitchen is an upscale restaurant that offers a pleasant oceanfront dining experience. In addition, the restaurant also offers excellent dishes prepared from locally sourced seafood. Bay Park Fish Company offers amazing dishes prepared from fresh locally sourced seafood. If you are looking for another good and affordable restaurant near Crown Point Park, The Menu Restaurant offers amazing breakfast dishes in generous portions including pancakes, eggs, waffles, and French toast. In addition, the restaurant also serves excellent Mexican dishes including burritos, quesadillas, and huevos rancheros.

If you are looking for a hotel near Crown Point Park, there are many great nearby options. The 4-Star Paradise Point Resort & Spa offers many amenities including five pools, four restaurants, a spa, a marina, an 18-hole golf course, a fitness center, and tennis and basketball courts. In addition, the hotel also organizes exciting lawn games. A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Bahia Resort Hotel which offers many amenities including a pool, a hot tub, a children’s game room, multiple tennis courts, a Moroccan-themed bar, and a cafe. In addition, the restaurant also offers exciting complimentary cruises in a vintage riverboat. If you are looking for another good and affordable hotel near Crown Point Park, the 2-Star Best Western Mission Bay offers many amenities including a pool, a hot tub, an exercise room, and complimentary breakfast.