Navajo is a small community—covering only 14 square miles—in the eastern area of San Diego, California. It was named for the major street that runs through the area, Navajo Road. The community is mainly known for its natural attractions: Mission Trails Regional Park, Lake Murray, and the San Diego River. Though Navajo is small, the area is served by the San Diego Trolley, and many people find Navajo to be a great home; particularly, for students looking for help in school. If a child needs help with homework or a particularly difficult subject, Navajo tutors can help them turn a taxing challenge into a proud success.
Of Navajo’s natural attractions, Mission Trails Regional Park is the largest municipality owned park in California. It is a 5,800-acre open space that boasts rugged canyons and hills, as well as beautiful vistas of San Diego. The highest point is 1,592-foot-high Cowles Mountain, which is also the highest point in the city of San Diego. The most popular trail of the park is the Cowles Mountain trail, which takes hundreds of people per day to the summit for a 360-degree panorama of San Diego County. Another popular stop is the Old Mission Dam, which was built to supply irrigation water to farm land that supplied food for the Mission San Diego de Alcala, the first of the chain of missions established by Junipero Serra in California.
Whether visitors plan to come for an afternoon or stay overnight at the Kumeyaay Lake Campground, there are plenty of things to see and do. The Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor and Interpretive Center includes a number of exhibits, an art gallery, library, and a 93-seat theater with a Blu-ray projector. There is so much to learn from nature, which the Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor and Interpretive Center very existence proves. Navajo tutors know how important it is to succeed in the classroom, too, which comes from confidence in learning and knowledge.
Not only does the park have great opportunities for learning, there is a plethora of extreme outdoor activities—hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, rock climbing—but the San Diego River flows through the park, as does Lake Murray, a reservoir supplying water to San Diego neighborhoods For those who wish to take it easier than hiking, biking, or rock climbing, the lake is periodically stocked with trout and bass, perfect for a day of fishing.