Things to do
Things to do in City Heights
The most linguistically diverse square miles in the county, with El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue running through.
Things to do
Little Saigon Cultural DistrictShopping
The stretch of El Cajon Boulevard designated in 2013, lined with Vietnamese restaurants, bakeries, jewelers and service businesses.
Azalea Park Arts DistrictArts
A residential pocket where neighbors created public mosaics and sculptures, centered on the Manzanita Gathering Place.
New Roots Community FarmFamily
A farm worked by refugee and immigrant growers; First Lady Michelle Obama visited in 2010.
City Heights Farmers' MarketMarket
A neighborhood market in the Urban Village area selling produce from local farms, including growers from New Roots.
City Heights Urban VillageLandmark
The civic core built with Price Philanthropies support, grouping a library, recreation center, schools and a police substation around Fairmount Avenue and University Avenue.
Chollas CreekTrail
Restoration work along the creek's City Heights reaches, funded in part by a $3.5 million grant, is turning a concrete-lined channel back into open space.
Teralta ParkPark
A park built on a cap over Interstate 15, reconnecting the neighborhood the freeway split.
Colina del Sol ParkPark
City Heights' largest park, with sports fields, a pool and canyon edges on the neighborhood's east side.
University Avenue East African businessesShopping
Somali and Ethiopian restaurants, groceries and shops along University Avenue reflect the refugee communities that settled here from the 1990s.
Eat & drink
Pho HoaVietnamese pho shop
A long-running El Cajon Boulevard pho house often cited as an anchor of Little Saigon.
Minh KyVietnamese and Chinese noodle house
A decades-old El Cajon Boulevard spot for egg noodle soups and roast meats.
Northgate MarketMexican supermarket
A large Latino grocery with a taqueria and bakery counter serving the neighborhood's Mexican and Central American households.
Annual events
City Heights Farmers' MarketWeekly, year-round
The market runs weekly rather than annually and is the neighborhood's most regular public gathering.