Balboa Park-Hillcrest is an area of San Diego, located in the heart of the city just north of Downtown. Balboa Park (http://www.balboapark.org) is a massive urban park with beautiful open spaces, gardens and vegetation, the renowned San Diego Zoo, the historic Old Globe Theatre, and numerous museums. Hillcrest, just to the northwest of Balboa Park, is a dense urban community that has recently undergone a lot of gentrification and is home to many locally-owned businesses and most of San Diego's gay nightlife.
