Soledad National Memorial

Mount Soledad is a prominent landmark in the city of San Diego, California. The 822-foot-tall hill lies between Interstate 5 to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is mostly within the community of La Jolla where the northern and eastern slopes form a sharp escarpment along the Rose Canyon Fault. The community of Pacific Beach is on the gentler southern slope. There are several radio and television transmitters located on the summit including television channels 8 and 10, the CBS and ABC affiliates respectively. Commercial aircraft approaching San Diego from the direction of Los Angeles often use Mt. Soledad as their point to start the downwind leg of their approach to San Diego International Airport.

Just east of the summit of Mt. Soledad is a Korean War Memorial with a 29-foot-tall cross was erected in 1954 as its centerpiece.[1] A cross had been on the site since 1913.[2] The City of San Diego was the target of a lawsuit in 1989 charging that the presence of the cross violated the California Constitution. In 1991, a Federal court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Philip Paulson, an atheist.