About La-Jolla-Cove.org
La-Jolla-Cove.org is an independent visitor guide to La Jolla Cove — its sea lions, beaches, sea caves and ocean life. It is not affiliated with the City of San Diego or any government agency, and nothing here is an official notice.
The method
Every place this site covers exists as a record in one dataset: coordinates from OpenStreetMap and other named sources, facts from the City of San Diego, NOAA Fisheries, California Coastal Commission documents and dated local reporting. The homepage cards, the map, and every “at a glance” table read from those same records, so they cannot quietly disagree with each other.
Facts at a wild coastline expire. That is why every page shows a “last checked” date, why the closures page carries an explicit recheck date, and why prices are given as sourced ranges rather than precise numbers that would be stale in a month. Where something could not be established, the page says “unknown” — a blank that pretends to be an answer is worse than an honest gap.
The money
Some pages link to bookable tours on GetYourGuide; if you book through those links, this site earns a commission at no extra cost to you. The relevance rules are strict: a page tells you when no tour goes somewhere (none launches from the Cove itself), and several pages advise renting gear or walking a free trail instead of booking anything. Recommendations are not for sale.
Contact
Corrections are genuinely welcome — a site built on dated facts depends on them: info@la-jolla-cove.org.