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Manzanita Gathering Place

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Manzanita Gathering Place

The second of the San Diego Gathering Space Projects. Designed and to be built by the community. The concept to completion will have only taken 6 or 7 months!

Our community of City Heights, and in particular the neighborhoods of Castle, Swan Canyon, Fairmount Village and Azalea Park, are excited to participate in the tremendous opportunity to transform a small piece of land from a razor-wire-covered barricade between neighborhoods into a beautiful gathering place for all to share. Through a generous grant, and the amazing partners shown above, and the drive of our community-based volunteers and youth, we will see magic happen. This is a project which is formatted to shorten the process of bureaucracies and invite collaboration of lead designers who take the communities' input, ask the youth to play a major part in presentation and design, and ultimately, will be a "barn-raising" style build over 4 days in November. Please consider volunteering time, money, materials, services, and even offering food or the help in serving food and beverages to our volunteers. The build dates are Thursday, November 7th through Sunday, November 10th, between 9 AM and 5 PM, with a celebration on the evening of the 10th. Details to be announced. For more information, contact Linda Pennington at: [email protected]

Project Partners Include: A.R.T.S (A Reason to Survive), The Pomegranate Center, The San Diego Foundation, SD Canyonlands, Community Housing Works and the Rokenbok Educations Foundation

10/01/2026

02/03/2026

The Manzanita Gathering Place is the main trailhead to the City Heights Canyons Loop Trail and is located at the entrance to Manzanita Canyon. See this shared post about a community meeting organized by San Diego Canyonlands next Saturday, February 7, at the Ocean Discovery Institute Living Lab, across the canyon from the Manzanita Gathering Place about their Hydrology Project in Manzanita Canyon.

01/26/2026

Today was a perfect sunny day in San Diego to pull weeds at the Manzanita Gathering Place, one of many gathering places built around the world with oversight from the Pomegranate Foundation out of Seattle and our local ARTS (A Reason To Survive) organization, funding from Rokenbok, and about 200 community members who participated in the four-day build. The ground was still wet enough from the recent rain to make it easy to pull the weeds up by the root but not muddy at all. Neighbor Cindy Lapio and I spent about three hours tackling the weeds ead feeling so lucky to be gardening in January in San Diego. 🌞🌻🌺🌴

12/29/2025

Yesterday was the last Canyons Kid's Club in 2025. We met at the Manzanita Gathering Place and hiked through Manzanita Canyon to Devil's Cave at the opposite end of the canyon and took the steps out of the canyon to Azalea Community Park where the kids enjoyed some play time at the Tot Lot.
Thanks to neighbor, Erick Salgado for organizing this weekly event to introduce our little ones and their young parents to our beautiful neighborhood canyons!

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43rd Street & Thorn St
San Diego, CA
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