Ruocco Park — Attraction in San Diego

Ruocco Park Positioned between Seaport Village and Tuna Harbor, this 3.3-acre park overlooks San Diego Bay and Coronado Island. Located at the busy intersection of West Harbor Drive and the Pacific Highway, the entrance to the park is a half-acre plaza featuring the 45-foot-high sculpture, Roman de Salvo consisting of suspended eucalyptus branches which are sliced lengthwise. Named The Riparium (2012) and built to suggest a sailboat’s mast and rigging, the sculpture keeps the ground plane open and allows visitors to pass under an ever-changing web of shadows into the park beyond. Pedestrian circulation consists of a perimeter loop around a large oval lawn bordered by sweetshade and shoestring acacia trees. Other plantings include fern pines in the northwest corner and drought-tolerant, xeriscape gardens at the northern and southern borders. A separate picnic lawn is dotted with shade trees and circular concrete islands, each one containing a picnic bench. Interspersed with planting areas, stones, and benches, a paved oval plaza at the park’s western end opens on the...

Great Bayside Park with a large stretch of grass, weekdays you can find pick-up soccer everyday at 1pm. Bathrooms are kept clean by the City, and it's not overrun by homeless although there is a presence. Great green entry to Seaport Village. Scenic looking out over the Bay promenade. Great resource, I hope the city leaders retain this patch of open space and green - these are getting hard to...

Great park if you get rid of the crackheads on Friday afternoon. Cmon Gloria do something with the taxes we pay. . . Bathroom with open doors house a crack burning, snorting, upstanding citizen while her compadre is flipping out with Predator noises on the concrete floor outside. Even the cleaners lock the gate when they...