La Costa guide

La Costa’s economic base is derived from nearby high-tech, biotechnology, healthcare, multimedia, corporations and golf manufacturers where many homeowners find an array of employment opportunities. The many large corporations that employ many of La Costa's highly educated workforce include: Isis Pharmaceuticals, Immune Response, Taylor Made, Callaway & Cobra Golf, Jazzercise and The Gemological Institute of America.

Only a couple of minutes from the azure Pacific Coast of Southern California is an enviable quality of life, where an abundance of social and recreational benefits beckon. La Costa is the ultimate resort community filled with numerous golf and tennis clubs.

La Costa also offers fine dining in four different restaurants each of which offer spa food options. from at Try The acclaimed Pisces Restaurant for seafood or the innovative cuisine of Ristorante Figaro. For those in the mood for a less formal evening out, Brasserie La Costa is just the place.

La Costa's Homeowners have easy access to an explosion of color of the famous Carlsbad Flower Fields, the Batiquitos Lagoon which extends it's Pacific Ocean Welcome with cool breezes and panoramic views.

Carlsbad and La Costa areas host a number of newly constructed master planned communities including one of the county’s most desirable places to live, the Aviara development.

The booming real estate market offers La Costa's friendly homeowners a variety of real estate choices. Housing options ranging from top notch condominium and single-family homes in established neighborhoods and new housing tracts to the magnificent estates with views the ocean nearby & the inland valleys and multimillion dollar luxury properties in estate communities, including The Greystone Collection at La Costa Valley, a place of distraction with grand rewards for those who choose to live up to their dreams.

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Carlsbad Village Faire

Carlsbad Village Faire is the largest one day street fair in America attracting over 80,000 visitors twice a year featuring an international food center, antiques, 900 arts and crafts booths, Kiwanis Club pancake breakfast, a large children's rides area, and a certified Farmer's Market. The faire runs the first Sunday of May and November.

Museum of Making Music

Museum of Making Music is located in the NAMM Headquarters at 5790 Armada Drive and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. Phone: (877) 551-9976.

La Costa offers all of recreational opportunities of any Southern California Coastal area. Many homeowners enjoy water sports such as swimming, surfing, fishing and other activities like hiking in the mountains, cycling, tennis and golf.

Some of La Costa's nearby attractions include:

• Sea World located only 22.9 miles to the south.

• La Costa Resort - Conveniently located 35 miles North of San Diego, the La Costa Resort is known for its luxury guest rooms and spacious meeting space and the finest in golf and tennis facilities sprawling over 400 lush green acres nestled amidst the beautiful coastal climate of Carlsbad. La Costa Resort features more than 400 guest rooms, each with a unique Spanish style motif. The La Costa Resort has two beautiful and traditionally designed 18-hole PGA champion golf courses. At La Costa Resort, the home of the Accenture Match Play Championship, PGA Tournament of Champions Format for over thirty years and the World Golf Championships, players can measure their performance on the courses which have challenged the best players in the world. La Costa Resort is open to golfers of all abilities. Golfers can improve their game at the golf school where PGA instructors are available. The resort is also home to the Acura Classic Tennis Tournament held each year at the 21 court racquet club with tennis courts in three different surfaces, grass, clay and composite. There's a tennis school that is renowned and respected as one of the best in the country. The La Costa Resort and Spa is an unforgettable place to enjoy a day of fun and relaxation with rock steam rooms, Roman pools or one of the other facilities of the La Costa Spa. La Costa is a dream come true.

• Sea Port Village - 26.9 miles

• Convention Center - 27.2 miles

• Balboa Park - 26.0 miles

• San Diego Zoo - 25.7 miles

• LEGOLAND Just 6.4 miles away, this land is dubbed the "Land of Creativity". Children of all ages will be enchanted with themed, vibrant roller coasters and lively music. You can build and program a robot and get mesmerized with the astonishing "Miniland" animation theatre attraction displaying detailed depictions of life in well known cities and regions. Your kids will love it too. Legoland offers a variety of unique cuisines, lush landscape and spotless walkways that take families from one adventure to the next.

• Qualcomm Stadium - 23.1 miles

• Wild Animal Park - 17.5 miles

• Lindbergh Field Airport - 25.9 miles

• Aztecs - 25.5 miles

Just close enough for leisurely day trips, are skiing opportunities at Big Bear, getaways to Catalina and Coronado Islands, world-class shopping, the Mexican boarder and one of the most beautiful harbors in the world. Catch a view of the hot air balloons that are often seen aloft in the distance to the south.

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La Costa schools enjoy an excellent educational reputation and have recently had a number of new schools added. University of San Diego is only 22.8 miles away.

La Costa's moderate temperatures with cool San Diego breezes provide relief during the summer months and make the perfect place to own a home for those who enjoy the outdoors. Temperatures average of 58 degrees in January to 73 degrees in July. Annual rainfall is about 10 inches on the averages , usually between December and March.

La Costa, famous for the world renowned La Costa Resort & Spa built in the late 1960s when the resort was a little known hideaway for Hollywood’s rich and famous, was a remote outpost of the sleepy little beach town then known as Carlsbad by the Sea.

Carlsbad History

Carlsbad was founded during the land boom of 1880s and named for a Bohemian spa whose waters were found to be identical to those in a local mineral well. Later known as the Avocado Capital of the World, the area was for years an agricultural community of "gracious houses and small farms." Carlsbad incorporated as a city in 1952 and has in the decades since then benefited from a far-sighted city government that always planned for a grand future.