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Golden Hill finally gets attention
CCC fixes trail on 26th, installs wooden bridges, adds stone stairs
Golden Hill Park doesn't usually get the same polishing as the adjacent golf course.
At the southeastern edge of Balboa Park, Golden Hill Park doesn't usually get the same polishing as the adjacent golf course and other more popular facets of the city's "gem." It's still nice, no doubt, but in our 18 years living in the neighborhood we've known it to be a bit scruffy, especially the winding slope of 26th Street, where trash collects from homeless encampments and shriveled weeds cling to dusty ground.
The old trail through Bennington Memorial Oak Grove was ”little more than a dry streambed.”
The old trail through Bennington Memorial Oak Grove was so eroded – ”little more than a dry streambed,” said landscape architect Jackie Higgins – that runners were forced into the bike lane. And we weren’t the only ones to notice how woebegone the park had become. Years ago, Higgins said, a senior Balboa Park ranger identified the trail along 26th as a priority project: a crucial connection between Golden Hill Park and Florida Canyon. Now, with $387,000 in state funds, California Conservation Corps is making some overdue upgrades.
Higgins said residents stop by to say thank you and compliment them.
Back in 2019, CCC secured the funds with the support and sponsorship of Forever Balboa Park. The pandemic put the plan on pause until April 2022; completion is expected in September. CCC’s San Diego Center and Forever Balboa Park continue to partner to get the work done.
One of four new wooden bridges
For the past four months, a crew of 12-15 corpsmembers spent many sweaty days resurfacing 2400 feet of walking trail, installing four new wooden bridges to replace unsafe old ones, and building a sturdy new set of stone stairs into the steep hill at the top of 26th, where people were accustomed to scrambling up the dirt embankment. The “icing on the cake” will be a new lodgepole fence to separate the trail from the street. Signage, which is decidedly absent from this section of park, is also coming soon.
New set of stone stairs at the top of 26th
Chris Van Horne of CCC said the project is part of California’s Active Transportation Program, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through increasing how often Californians walk and bike to get around. One way is to make entering the park through the Golden Hill neighborhood more pedestrian friendly.
CCC corpsmembers said they’ve seen more people using the completed trail portions to run, walk their dogs, and stroll through the park. Higgins said residents stop by to say thank you and compliment them on a job well done.
Though unrelated to CCC’s park improvements, SANDAG’s recent modifications to 26th Street – flexible barriers for the bike lane, new signage, and road resurfacing – add to the overall new spiffiness of the area. Higgins said more plans are in the works for Golden Hill.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Golden Hill finally gets attention
CCC fixes trail on 26th, installs wooden bridges, adds stone stairs
Golden Hill finally gets attention
CCC fixes trail on 26th, installs wooden bridges, adds stone stairs
Golden Hill Park doesn't usually get the same polishing as the adjacent golf course.
At the southeastern edge of Balboa Park, Golden Hill Park doesn't usually get the same polishing as the adjacent golf course and other more popular facets of the city's "gem." It's still nice, no doubt, but in our 18 years living in the neighborhood we've known it to be a bit scruffy, especially the winding slope of 26th Street, where trash collects from homeless encampments and shriveled weeds cling to dusty ground.
The old trail through Bennington Memorial Oak Grove was ”little more than a dry streambed.”
The old trail through Bennington Memorial Oak Grove was so eroded – ”little more than a dry streambed,” said landscape architect Jackie Higgins – that runners were forced into the bike lane. And we weren’t the only ones to notice how woebegone the park had become. Years ago, Higgins said, a senior Balboa Park ranger identified the trail along 26th as a priority project: a crucial connection between Golden Hill Park and Florida Canyon. Now, with $387,000 in state funds, California Conservation Corps is making some overdue upgrades.
Higgins said residents stop by to say thank you and compliment them.
Back in 2019, CCC secured the funds with the support and sponsorship of Forever Balboa Park. The pandemic put the plan on pause until April 2022; completion is expected in September. CCC’s San Diego Center and Forever Balboa Park continue to partner to get the work done.
One of four new wooden bridges
For the past four months, a crew of 12-15 corpsmembers spent many sweaty days resurfacing 2400 feet of walking trail, installing four new wooden bridges to replace unsafe old ones, and building a sturdy new set of stone stairs into the steep hill at the top of 26th, where people were accustomed to scrambling up the dirt embankment. The “icing on the cake” will be a new lodgepole fence to separate the trail from the street. Signage, which is decidedly absent from this section of park, is also coming soon.
New set of stone stairs at the top of 26th
Chris Van Horne of CCC said the project is part of California’s Active Transportation Program, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through increasing how often Californians walk and bike to get around. One way is to make entering the park through the Golden Hill neighborhood more pedestrian friendly.
CCC corpsmembers said they’ve seen more people using the completed trail portions to run, walk their dogs, and stroll through the park. Higgins said residents stop by to say thank you and compliment them on a job well done.
Though unrelated to CCC’s park improvements, SANDAG’s recent modifications to 26th Street – flexible barriers for the bike lane, new signage, and road resurfacing – add to the overall new spiffiness of the area. Higgins said more plans are in the works for Golden Hill.
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