| Kate Sessions Memorial Park | |
|---|---|
  Location | |
| Type | Urban park |
| Location | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 32°48′40″N 117°14′17″W / 32.811°N 117.238°W |
| Area | 79-acre park |
| Owned by | City of San Diego[1] |
Kate Sessions Memorial Park is large park on Mount Soledad, in San Diego, California in San Diego County. The parks is named after Kate Sessions, Sessions was a botanist, horticulturalist, and landscape architect who lived and worked in San Diego. Sessions is known as the "Mother of Balboa Park." Sessions started as school teacher and worked in a flower shop before becoming San Diego's head botanist.[2]
The park as many walking trails, picnic tables, BBQ, natural habitat, rest rooms, a seasonal creek and the Kate Sessions Park playground. The park also as dog friendly places. From the park there are views of Mission Bay, the Pacific Ocean and the city. The park was make at Sessions request and was orgainally called the Soledad Terrace Park in 1957 the park was renamed Kate Sessions Memorial Park on Sessions 100th birthday.[3]
The address of the park is 5115 Soledad Road, San Diego, California.[4]
Sessions has a California Historical Landmark No. 764 listed on April 28, 1961, at the corner of Garnet Ave and Pico Street in San Diego, where her Nursery was.[5]
See also
References
- ↑ "Kate Sessions Neighborhood Park". City of San Diego Official Website. July 17, 2019.
- ↑ Sessions biography (San Diego Historical Society).
- ↑ "Kate Sessions Park, Kate Sessions Park San Diego | Welcome to San Diego". welcometosandiego.com. December 4, 2009.
- ↑ "Kate Sessions Park | Hidden San Diego".
- ↑ "Sessions Nursery Site Marker #764". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.