Black Mountain Open Space Park is a city park located in San Diego, California

San Diego, California

San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...

. The park covers 2352 acres (9.5 km²) in the Black Mountain Ranch

Black Mountain Ranch, San Diego, California

Black Mountain Ranch is a community in the northeastern part of the city of San Diego, California. Black Mountain Ranch encompasses and is located north of Rancho Penasquitos and Torrey Highlands, south of the Santa Fe Valley, east of Fairbanks Ranch and Rancho Santa Fe, and west of 4S Ranch.The...

 and Rancho Peñasquitos

Rancho Penasquitos, San Diego, California

Rancho Peñasquitos is a community in the northeastern part of the city of San Diego, California. It is named after the first Spanish Land Grant in the County - Rancho de Los Penasquitos. Peñasquitos means little cliffs in Spanish. It abuts Los Penasquitos canyon preserve - an open space...

 area of northern San Diego. The park includes the 1,558 foot (475 m) Black Mountain and preserves coastal sage scrub

Coastal sage scrub

Coastal sage scrub is a low scrubland plant community found in the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion of coastal California and northern Baja California. It is characterized by low-growing aromatic, and drought-deciduous shrubs adapted to the semi-arid Mediterranean climate of the...

 and chaparral

Chaparral

Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico...

plant communities. A future interpretive center is planned that will highlight the mountain, the 1920s era arsenic/gold mine, and other nearby open areas.