Welcome to the Beautiful Beach City of Carlsbad. 

This is where there is fun, sun and surf everyday and memories for a lifetime.  There are over seven miles’ of beaches, lagoons, a lot of outdoor activities and a downtown Village that is charming with many antique stores, restaurants and other unique stores.

The climate, clean air a blue Pacific Ocean is a wonderful way to spend a leisure day.

Here are some fantastic things to do in Carlsbad.

Carlsbad has three lagoons that have a variety of wildlife and wonderful opportunities for nature walks, bird watching and photography.

More than twelve golf courses in and around Carlsbad including the famous La Costa Spa and golf that features major tournaments during the year.

The world famous Flower Fields where you can walk among the spectacular flourish of colorful flowers between March and May every year.

The only LegoLand Park in the United States, which allows kids to enjoy and experience the unique block landscape of toys and over 50 rides, attractions and shows.

Here you can catch a ride in an biplane (open cockpit) and ride over the Historic Highway 101.

The Carlsbad Beaches’ are perfect for learning to surf, play volleyball, building sand castles or taking a romantic stroll on the boardwalk and watch the sunsets and the green flash and the sunsets.   You will enjoy the wonderful lifestyle of the beach and the pleasures of the ocean with the sun upon your shoulders and the salty smells of the sea.

There is also world class shopping of many scales for you with the designer clothing and accessories, wonderful bath and body products and sparkling jewelry.  You will also find flea markets, home décor and artisan galleries and boutiques and well as garden shops, antique stores by this amazing Village by the Sea.

Dining and Accommodations

The dining also offers an array of many delightful restaurants from enchiladas to steakhouses, casual to sophisticated, to keep everyone happy and satisfied.  There are many local, family owned restaurants that have been around for decades, trendy cafes, friendly bistros and side walk cafes.  You can even bring your dog to dine with you outside in the year round sunshine, where alfresco dining is the norm do to the mild temperatures and charming experience you will find here in Carlsbad.

Carlsbad has an outstanding array of accommodations.  If you are looking for a seaside hotel, rental house on the beach for your family, bed and breakfast inn, oceanfront campsite or a five- diamond resort, the town of Carlsbad has it all.

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Located just seven miles inland from the Pacific Ocean in northern San Diego County, the City of Vista has a perfect mild Mediterranean climate.  Its 94,500 residents enjoy a wide range of year-round outdoor activities in a setting of gentle rolling hills and pleasant rural surroundings.

With more than 25 educational institutions for Vista youth, and a business park home to nearly 650 companies, it is no wonder Vista has been named one of the "50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family.