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An Apollonaut travel guide
A park in the valley.
An introduction to the San Pasqual Valley, where the Safari Park has stood since 1972.
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Read the land from the valley
The Safari Park is at 15500 San Pasqual Valley Road, in the San Pasqual Valley in the north of the City of San Diego, with an Escondido postal address.
A regional guide can give context without turning a landscape into a backdrop. Notice how the park’s plains and trails meet the valley around them. Respect homes and working businesses.
Plains, paths and planting
A park on this scale is a work of landscape as much as of buildings: open plains for herds, trails and viewpoints for visitors, and habitats shaped for each species.
Begin with a detail and ask how it was made and maintained. A photograph alone cannot tell you how a habitat was built, or the conditions in which people worked.
A park chapter
The Safari Park shows one side of San Diego County: a valley given room for herds from other continents.
Look at the meeting of the two: the valley outside, and the plains of Africa and Asia recreated within it.
Make room for context
Pair this regional reading with the park’s history and the Journal. This is an introduction for visitors, not a claim that our team manages these places or represents their makers.
Read at the source
Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
