page_title: Los Peñasquitos Lagoon
section_title: California State Parks
hierarchical_section_title: Los Peñasquitos Lagoon / Restoration and preservation / California State Parks
caption_attribution_description: English: "KEEP OUT" sign near the mouth of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon (Los Peñasquitos Marsh Natural Preserve and Lagoon).
context_page_description: Los Peñasquitos Marsh Natural Preserve and Lagoon is a coastal marsh in San Diego County, California, United States situated at the northern edge of the City of San Diego, forming the natural border with Del Mar, California. The lagoon, previously called The Soledad Lagoon, divides a colony of the endangered Pinus torreyana on a narrow coastal strip. The name "Los Peñasquitos" is Spanish for "The Little Cliffs".
context_section_description: The California Division of Parks and Recreation has designated the status of Los Peñasquitos Lagoon as a State Preserve, which has much more restricted access than the State Park designation. There is very limited public use of Los Peñasquitos Marsh Natural Preserve, with most of the area signed as "Do Not Enter". The California State Preserve status is granted to only the rarest and most fragile of the state owned lands.
  The State Preserve covers the saltwater lagoon area of over 630 acres (2.5 km²) adjacent to Torrey Pines State Beach and Torrey Pines State Reserve. An additional 240 acres (0.97 km²) of marshland was added to this California State Parkland in 1987, when it was purchased from SDG&E for $2.25 million. SDG&E has originally purchased the land in 1966 as a possible site for a new nuclear power plant that was never built.
caption: Sign at the mouth of the lagoon
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