Photo: Roman Eugeniusz, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Training center for Olympic athletes. Tours available.
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Training Centers (OPTCs) are two campuses created by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) as training facilities for its Olympic and Paralympic athletes. They are located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Lake Placid, New York. Formerly, the USOPC also had a third OPTC in Chula Vista, California, which is now the city-owned Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center. There is a U.S. Olympic Education Center in Marquette, Michigan, and other official U.S. Olympic/Paralympic training sites are located in Oklahoma City and Edmond, Oklahoma; Carson, California; Lakeshore Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama; Charlotte, North Carolina; the Pettit National Ice Center in West Allis, Wisconsin; a USRowing training center in Oakland, California ; Huntsville, Texas, the SPIRE Institute and Academy near Geneva, Ohio, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
© OpenStreetMap contributors
Otay Lake
Owned by the City of San Diego. Open for fishing and general boating.
An amphitheater that is even larger than the Hollywood Bowl.
formerly Knott's Soak City
Water Park
Surrounded by the unincorporated community of Bonita. Home to Chula Vista Live Steamers, offering train rides on the second Saturday and Sunday of every month.
Founded in 1897, a private golf club, that has hosted the U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Women's Amateur, and U.S. Senior Women's Open.