LA PLAYA TRAIL
VILLAGE LIGHTS PLAQUES
La Playa Trail, the oldest commercial route in the western United States, is a well-worn path leading north along the shoreline toward the pueblo of San Diego. Although the native Kumeyaay people had been traveling the old road for thousands of years, Vicente Vila, captain of the San Carlos from the Portola expedition, was the first European to document La Playa Trail in 1769. Beginning at Ballast Point, the trail ran along present-day Rosecrans Street through the pueblo of San Diego past the Kumeyaay village of Cosoy, and east along the San Diego River.