Kellogg Park

We love Kellogg Park and La Jolla Shores so much that we decided to stay here as in walking distance to the park and beach this vacation. The playground has swings, 2 sets of play equipment (one for smaller, one for bigger kids) and a small part is shaded! There are tons of private restrooms right by including a family restroom which is a huge deal when you have a 2 year old!
Huge grassy area for picnics. Tons of people on the weekends… good luck finding parking. The boardwalk is large enough to fit a lot of people at once.

Boardwalk beach park. Goreous.

Great beach with a large grass area. Great family BBQ spot with the beach right in front of you. It was our first time this past Saturday ⁶⁄₇ we loved it will be back soon!

What a great park located by La Jolla shores. The bathrooms are great and sometimes clean. Large grass area to play in, great playground for kids! The beach is steps away.

Great little park. There is a grassy area with a playground and picnic tables. Ample parking. A huge white sands beach with restrooms and showers available.
Nearby you have several rental shops to get kayaks, stand up paddle boards, or skuba/​snorkeling gear. Just rent, take tour or even a class.
If you get out on the water you can get up close and personal with leopard sharks (they are harmless), sea caves, or explore the large kelp beds with wildlife. We saw a lot of sea lions, harbor seals, and all kinda of fishies. Others said they saw a pod of dolphins earlier in the day but we missed them.
Nearby you also have a lot of restaurants so perfect place to spend the entire day. So c’mon down to play, relax, spend the day on the water or watch a beautiful sunset.

This is my all time favorite beach. There’s grass (for those people who are anti-​sand) and lots of sand (naturally) for picnicking or setting up your beach umbrella and towels. There are also bonfire pits! It’s got showers and restrooms (comparatively nicer than most beach restrooms) and a checkered flag at the fancy lifeguard station in the middle of the beach for splitting the surf side from the swim side. The surf is perfect for beginner surfers! And also perfect to swim in. There’s tons of wildlife here. Near the swim side (or closer to the beachfront hotel) you can always see pods of leopard sharks, even from the shore! You’ll also see nurse sharks and a variety of fishes (you gotta get in to see these guys)! It’s a great place to snorkel! Also, you can rent bikes, kayaks, boogie boards, and snorkel gear from San Diego Bike & Kayak Tours. I’d make a reservation for busier times of the year like summer, but I love renting stuff from there! You’ll also see people paragliding off the cliffs toward the surf side of the beach. I haven’t looked into that, but I’m 99% sure you can paraglide for a price somewhere nearby Kellogg Park. It’s also a very safe beach. The lifeguards are always roaming about either in the water or riding along the sand in their trucks. If you can, go on a weekday to avoid the crowds. Or go the weekend after Labor Day weekend! I don’t have kids, but this is also a great beach for kiddos. The waves are small and the ground in the ocean is flat and even. You can go out quite aways in just waist deep water (waist deep at 5’7″). They also have an awesome playground! Randomly, the water is super clean and you can see straight down to the bottom no problem. I love Kellogg Park.

My work selected this as the location for our staff family party. It’s got a great location to it as I’ve grown up in San Diego and never once knew this stretch of grass/​beach was over here.
There is a large parking lot which as of yesterday on a warm summer Saturday was a nightmare and better luck was found parking on a side street.
They’ve got a playground that’s really nice.
They’ve got an abundance of bathrooms that exceed your standard of what you’d expect for a beach. Private locking doors that ensure some little kid wont open the door on you.
They’ve got plenty of showers to rinse off in.
A very large grass area perfect for beachy activities.
Beach access is right on the otherside of the sidewalk.
Clean water.
Clean beach.
Great spot.

This is a really cool park, now that I’ve I actually gotten to go around it when it wasn’t packed on a weekend. I was impressed by the relief map of La Jolla Shores, and there’s enough playground equipment to keep the kiddies busy. Oh yeah, and the restrooms don’t look creepy any more!

The new and improved La Jolla Shores playground was just the ticket for my visiting 2 ½ year old granddaughter. With its bright colors and interesting metal equipment it is a magnet for kids of all ages.
The little ones will enjoy the structure that is especially geared toward babies and toddlers, while the older kids will like the equipment that turns and twists and allows for swinging and hanging, sliding, dangling, climbing and lots more. The equipment has junior lifeguard towers that mirror the real thing just north of the playground.
There are educational reliefs on some of the tower walls that show what to do in a rip current or how to do the stingray shuffle, and also teach recycling/​pollution awareness. Near the playground is the beautiful relief map of the ocean with inlaid shells and bronze representations of sea life. Don’t miss it. Recently renovated restrooms are just south of this map.
La Jolla Shores has done a great job with this part of the park, thanks to all the donations and volunteer work.