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Del Mar, CA
Del Mar Racetrack, whose grandstand famously carries the phrase "where the surf meets the turf," was co-founded in 1937 by a group of investors that included Bing Crosby, who reportedly greeted the track's first-ever patron in person at the gate on opening day — a founding story the track and the small coastal city surrounding it have leaned into as a defining piece of local identity ever since. The city's beaches and bluffs, combined with a genuinely small-town village character along Camino Del Mar, have made Del Mar one of the more consistently desirable and expensive small coastal communities in San Diego County, despite a year-round population of under 4,500 residents. The Del Mar Fairgrounds, adjacent to the racetrack, hosts the San Diego County Fair every summer along with the annual horse racing meet, giving the small city a level of seasonal visitor traffic and regional event significance well beyond what its modest size would otherwise suggest. Del Mar's combination of a historically significant horse racing venue with genuine Hollywood-era founding history, dramatic coastal bluffs, and a walkable small-town village center has made it one of the most distinctive and consistently expensive small coastal cities anywhere in San Diego County.
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La Jolla, CA
La Jolla sits on a dramatic stretch of Pacific coastline within San Diego's city limits, and its rocky coves and sea caves, most famously at La Jolla Cove, have made it one of the more geologically distinctive and consistently photographed shorelines anywhere in Southern California, with a resident colony of sea lions and harbor seals that's become a major draw in its own right. The University of California, San Diego, one of the top-ranked public research universities in the country, occupies a substantial coastal campus at La Jolla's northern edge, and the neighborhood is also home to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, whose Louis Kahn-designed concrete complex is regarded as one of the most architecturally significant modern research buildings in the country. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and a concentration of galleries along Prospect Street have given La Jolla's compact village center a genuine arts identity layered on top of its coastal scenery, drawing visitors for gallery walks and oceanview dining well beyond just beach access. La Jolla's combination of dramatically distinctive coastal geology, a major research university and biomedical research presence, and a genuine gallery and arts district has made it one of the most internationally recognized coastal neighborhoods anywhere in the greater San Diego area.
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