Weekend Driver San Diego

Cutting Through Unexpected Urban Wilderness In A Hybrid Mercury Mariner While the general area where San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties meet is one of fastest growing in the nation, its center somewhat of a surprise. Much of it is wilderness. This hole-in-the-donut is the northern portion of the Cleveland National Forest, which stretches south [...]

Wilderness Area Is A Real San Diego County Gem In La Mesa, Interstate 8 and State Route 94 nearly meet, coming within a couple of miles of each other, connected by SR-125. Before meeting up in Boulevard, they form the shape of an eye heading east, with the widest spot coming near where I-8 passes [...]

Mother Grundy must have been one fabulous gal. With a mountain and truck trail named after her in the hills east of Jamul, she’ll never be forgotten.

Sometimes these great twisty roads that driving enthusiasts like to frequent end up on the front page of the newspaper. For example, Border Field State Park, in the Tijuana River Regional Park, is the site of a proposed expanded U.S. — Mexico border fence that’s received a lot of debate recently.

A beautiful place with no name in Anza-Borrego Desert Note: I took this trip in March, 2005. Be sure to check with the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park ranger for current road conditions. Canyon Sin Nombre video Download GPS coordinates to your device for just $1.99! ne thing about a year with heavy rains in San [...]

The lost city of Petra, Jordan, is a long way from San Diego. This faraway place, where the final scenes of the 1989 movie “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” were shot, came to mind in a trip to Split Mountain, in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The spectacular Petra gorge, where Indiana, his father [...]

One of the great things about living in San Diego is that in about an hour, you can drive from the coast to the mountains to the desert, which is where we’re headed today. Borrego Springs is the northeastern outpost of San Diego County, an oasis at the edge of the Colorado Desert, which extends [...]

There’s almost always a different way to get from here to there. Sometimes it’s not paved, sometimes it’s partially paved and sometimes it’s full of potholes. Today’s drive is all of those things. Going from Alpine to Mt. Laguna is no big deal. Just get on Interstate 8, exit Sunrise Highway and you’re there. Maybe [...]