What we’re about
Our vision is for lower Rose Creek to be an open space park providing recreational and learning opportunities and a clean, healthy, aesthetically pleasing environment for residents, visitors, businesses, and native plants and animals, while serving as an accessible link for bicyclists and pedestrians to move between Rose Canyon Park, Marian Bear Park, Mission Bay Park, and surrounding communities. We invite everyone to help us make the dream a reality by habitat restoration, community cleanups, and nature walks. For more information, visit our website.
Find us on Instagram or @RoseCreekSD
If you want to be included in our monthly newsletter, click here and sign up for the newsletter (in the middle of the page).
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Do you know what upstream creeks flow into Rose Creek? (free presentation)Kendall-Frost Reserve Trailer, San Diego, CA
Join the Friends of Rose Creek as we host an exciting talk by Debby Knight, Executive Director of Friends of Rose Canyon and long-time advocate for protecting and restoring Rose Canyon.
She’ll share insights into how what happens in Rose Canyon Open Space Park and Marian Bear Park impact our work to protect and restore Rose Creek.
She’ll give an upstream perspective about our common goals of protecting and restoring these connected habitats and about why it can often seem ridiculously difficult to do something good for the environment. And she’ll talk about their volunteer habitat restoration events that have attracted ages 3 to 83.
Free Presentation Wednesday, May 7th @ 6 PM.
Kendall-Frost Marsh Community Learning Center
2055 Pacific Beach Dr. Pacific Beach 92109Schedule
6:00 – 6:30 PM Meet and Greet with light refreshments
6:30 – 7:00 PM Presentation by Friends of Rose Canyon Executive Director, Debby Knight.
7:00 – 8:00 PM Friends of Rose Creek Business Meeting open to the public.All meetings are open to the public.
Please note that no dogs or other pets are allowed in the Kendall-Frost Marsh. No smoking allowed!
All attendees must sign a waiver at the event. If you are under 18, please download, have your parent or guardian sign it, and bring it with you. If you are 18 or older, you can sign the group waiver at the meeting. La renuncia en español.
- Rose Creek Native Plant Garden Volunteer Work Party2525 Garnet Ave, San Diego, CA
Join the Friends of Rose Creek on the Second Saturday of every month from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. while we work on The Nature School’s native plant interpretive garden behind Rose Creek Cottage. Enjoy weeding, watering, removing invasive non-native plants and trash, and planting native species (fall and winter months) and get involved with your creek and your community. Easy one to two hours project – great for children of all ages.
Each month brings a new activity.
Please bring your own drinking water and snacks.
Unless there has been a lot of rain in the last week, please bring a few gallons of tap water in containers you will take home with you! We will use the water to help the newly planted natives survive until their roots are deep enough to survive on their own.
Perfect for community service credit hours. Please wear sunscreen, closed-toe shoes, long sleeved shirt and a hat. Volunteers should bring water and heavy-duty work or gardening gloves. We do have extra gloves to share. More information email info at saverosecreek dot org or visit SaveRoseCreek.org
Heavy rain cancels. Drizzle means we work.
- May Migration Madness (Free guided bird walk)Mike Gotch Bridge, San Diego , CA
Join us for a collaboration between the San Diego Bird Alliance and the Friends of Rose Creek this month as we shake it up a bit with an May Migration Madness bird walk. The amazing Kyle and Kelcy will be our guides.
Stay for as long or as short as you wish. We usually have the best bird sightings around sunset!
The songbird migration will be in force.
Sunset is at 7:43 PM, and the tide will be low at 5:22 PM so the tide will be rising during our walk. There should be some shorebirds around the Mike Gotch Bridge to start us off.
ROSE CREEK is a birding hot spot in the north east corner of Mission Bay. Check out the latest sightings on eBird. A treasure in Pacific Beach, the creek and salt marsh is popular with Bikers on the East side, a quiet, shaded walking path on the West side.
We will spend time in the fresh water riparian area upstream of Garnet so we can experience the songbird migration.
Meet at the east end of the Mike Gotch Bridge. Parking is legal on either side of approximately 2620 N Mission Bay Drive in the northeast corner of Mission Bay.
If you can can, download Kyle’s bird list ahead of time and see how many birds on the list you spot.
Bring binoculars if you have them, good walking shoes and check the weather before you come. Our guide will have a scope to help us see the birds closeup and personal. We will have a few extra pairs of binoculars for attendees, but supplies are limited.
*** Rain cancels.***
Calling Citizen Scientists! If you have a smart phone and want to contribute to data collection, join iNaturalist and start documenting nature along Rose Creek during the guided walk. Learn more here.
Or take photos and upload to Instagram and tag us @RoseCreekSD or @sandiegobirdalliance.
