{"id":261778,"date":"2025-09-28T17:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261778\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:23:08","slug":"first-u-s-undersea-park-was-actually-in-san-diego-not-key-largo-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/261778\/","title":{"rendered":"First U.S. undersea park was actually in San Diego, not Key Largo \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201c8 scenic road trips to explore America\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/travel\/2025\/08\/08\/american-road-trips-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept. 21<\/a>): The last of the eight drives discussed in this very nice travel article is the 113-mile Overseas Highway in Florida. The article mentions this trip allows visitors to \u201cexplore the country\u2019s first undersea park\u201d in Key Largo. That park was created in 1963, six years after San Diego created the San Diego Marine Life Refuge, which ultimately became today\u2019s San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive my civic pride in knowing that we beat Florida to this distinction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Weathers, Mission Valley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201c8 scenic road trips to explore America\u201d (Sept. 21): The last of the eight drives discussed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":261779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-261778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115283086795905132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}