La Mesa

La Mesa is a 9.09-square-mile city in the hills east of San Diego, and its own sign at Collier Park still calls it the Jewel of the Hills. The name fits the housing: streets climb from the trolley line and the Village toward Mount Nebo, Grossmont and Lake Murray, and two houses a block apart can sit on different slopes with different views, driveways and foundations. A La Mesa mailing address also reaches past the city line into Mount Helix, Casa de Oro and Spring Valley, which are unincorporated San Diego County, so the first question for any listing is whether the parcel is actually inside the city.

For buyers comparing La Mesa real estate, the market is a mix of early-1900s and post-war detached houses, a large stock of apartments and condominiums near the freeway and trolley corridors, and a downtown Village being replanned. In the Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS report for August 2026, the year-to-date median detached sale price was $901,000 in ZIP 91942 and $1,150,000 in ZIP 91941, where the ZIP also covers unincorporated Mount Helix; the exact windows and their limits are linked in the market section below. Those are orientation figures, not a value for any particular house.

The city dates its community to 1868, when stockman Robert Allison bought about 4,000 acres around the springs, and it incorporated on February 16, 1912 with roughly 700 residents, according to the La Mesa History Center. The railroad arrived in 1889 on the alignment the trolley uses today, and lemon ranches of five to ten acres covered much of the mesa before residential subdivision took over after 1906. That history explains why a walk through the older blocks passes Craftsman bungalows, mid-century ranch houses and hillside additions in the same quarter mile, and why permits and lot use deserve more attention here than a listing photograph can give them. Use this guide with the listings above, then bring the comparison down to a specific street and parcel.

Trolley cars beside La Mesa Boulevard, photographed before February 2023. The Orange Line has run through the city since the East Line opened in 1989.

01 / The directory

Finding Your Place in La Mesa

La Mesa has real neighborhood names, but they are not master-planned villages with fixed boundaries, and the same name can appear on both sides of a city line. The groups below are orientation, drawn from official planning documents, park and station names and the municipal boundary published by the U.S. Census Bureau. They do not settle school assignment, zoning or value; the parcel does.

The Village and Spring Street

Downtown La Mesa is the Village, which the La Mesa Village Association locates just south of Interstate 8 where Spring Street and La Mesa Boulevard meet. The Spring Street and La Mesa Boulevard trolley stations sit at its edges, the Friday farmers market runs along La Mesa Boulevard between 4th Street and Palm Avenue, and the 1894 La Mesa Depot museum stands at 4695 Nebo Drive. Housing here is a mix of early bungalows on the flat grid, small apartment buildings and condominiums within a few blocks of the storefronts.

This is also the part of the city most likely to change during your ownership. The city's Downtown Village Specific Plan was adopted in 1990, and its update page records that a rewrite began in Spring 2024 with community workshops on July 24, 2024 and September 17, 2025, a developer roundtable on October 29, 2024, and public feedback on subarea names, boundaries and design standards accepted through February 20, 2026. The update is meant to enable mixed-use development and set objective design standards for downtown. If you are buying near the Village for its quiet, read the draft subarea map for the block next door before assuming the view, parking or scale will stay as it is.

Mount Nebo and the hillside streets above the Village

The streets that climb from the Village and Allison Avenue toward Mount Nebo hold some of the city's oldest and most varied houses. The History Center lists the 1891 Albert W. Gray House at 8045 Culowee Street as the oldest standing residence, and Collier Park below the hill preserves the 1907 spring house that gave La Mesa Springs its name. City Hall at 8130 Allison Avenue sits at the foot of this area, inside the city boundary. Expect narrow, steep streets, retaining walls, stepped lots and houses that have been expanded several times since they were built.

On a hillside house, the inspection is as important as the view. Look at the foundation type and any slope stabilization, the age of retaining walls, how water drains around the lot in a storm, the actual usable flat yard and where a second car parks. Compare the permit record for additions and decks with what you can see, and ask the city's Community Development Department about anything the listing cannot document.

Grossmont and Fletcher Hills

Grossmont began as an artist colony developed by Ed Fletcher and William Gross between 1902 and 1910, according to the History Center, and its hillside streets still carry older custom homes with views toward the valley. Below the hill is the city's institutional core: Sharp Grossmont Hospital at 5555 Grossmont Center Drive, which Sharp describes as East County's largest hospital with 562 beds, Grossmont Center, and the Grossmont Transit Center where the Orange and Green trolley lines meet. The city's Grossmont Specific Plan page describes that plan area as bounded by Interstate 8 to the south, Jackson Drive to the west, Parkway Drive to the north and Amaya Drive to the east.

That plan is changing. The same page explains that Housing Element Program 9 directs the city to facilitate higher-density housing within the Grossmont Specific Plan area, that the plan dates from 1985 with a 1994 update, that a community informational session was held March 25, 2026 and that the public comment deadline on the draft amendments was July 26, 2026. A house or condominium near the hospital and mall should be evaluated with that entitlement direction in mind. Fletcher Hills is a name used on both sides of the La Mesa and El Cajon line around State Route 125; confirm which city a specific address falls in before comparing permits, taxes or services, and use the El Cajon guide for the parcels that land on the other side.

Lake Murray and the northern neighborhoods

North of Interstate 8, the streets around Lake Murray Boulevard and Kiowa Drive form the neighborhood that takes its name from the reservoir. The lake itself is a City of San Diego facility inside Mission Trails Regional Park, but its main entrance at 5540 Kiowa Drive carries a La Mesa address and geocodes inside the city boundary. The housing here is mostly post-war detached ranch houses on flatter lots than the hillside districts, which changes the inspection list: original systems, room additions, garage conversions and yard use matter more than slope.

The daily-life value is the walk to the water. The Mission Trails Regional Park Foundation's Lake Murray page describes 171.1 surface acres and 3.2 shoreline miles when the reservoir is full, a paved path that goes about 3.2 miles to the dam gate before turning back, shore fishing, small-boat and kayak rentals, and hours from sunrise to sunset every day except the second Tuesday of each month and major holidays. Check the current schedule before counting on it for a specific morning.

Eastridge and the eastern edge

The eastern side of the city, past Amaya Drive toward the El Cajon line, holds newer post-war subdivisions and the largest park in the city. Harry Griffen Regional Park at 9550 Milden Street covers 53 acres under a joint powers authority of the Helix Water District, the Grossmont Union High School District, the County of San Diego and the cities of El Cajon and La Mesa, according to the city's park page. The Amaya Drive trolley station serves both the Orange and Green lines. Because the boundary with El Cajon runs through residential streets here, check the jurisdiction of each address on the municipal map below.

University Avenue, 70th Street and the western corridors

The western part of the city, along University Avenue, Alvarado Road and 70th Street, is where La Mesa meets San Diego and where most of the attached housing sits. The 70th Street station is on the Green Line, two stops east of the SDSU Transit Center on the MTS station list, and Helix Charter High School at 4200 Lowell Street anchors the neighborhood south of University Avenue. Condominium buildings, apartment complexes and smaller lots line these corridors, which is why the state's housing count for the city is so heavily attached.

The California Department of Finance's provisional E-5 estimate for January 1, 2026 counts 27,088 housing units in the City of La Mesa: 12,436 single-family detached homes, or about 46 percent, and 10,429 units in buildings of five or more units, or about 38 percent, with 1,710 single-family attached homes, 2,345 units in two-to-four-unit buildings and 168 mobile homes. For a condominium buyer, that means a deep pool of comparable sales but also wide differences between buildings: read the association budget, reserves, insurance and repair responsibilities for the exact building before comparing list prices.

Beyond the city line: Mount Helix, Casa de Oro and Spring Valley

Many homes with a La Mesa mailing address are not in the city. Mt. Helix Park, at 4901 Mt. Helix Drive with a La Mesa 91941 address, sits at 1,365 feet with an amphitheater and cross built in 1925 and gifted to San Diego County in 1929, according to the Mt. Helix Park Foundation; the park and the hillside estates around it geocode outside the municipal boundary published by the Census Bureau, as do Casa de Oro and Spring Valley. Those parcels answer to the County of San Diego for permits, code enforcement and planning, not to La Mesa City Hall, even though they share ZIP 91941 and often the same school districts. The comparison is real, and often favorable on lot size, but it is a different jurisdiction with its own rules and services.

Adding a unit

Accessory dwelling units are a live question on many La Mesa lots. The city's ADU page offers pre-approved plans from a 224-square-foot studio to a 1,199-square-foot three-bedroom, with submissions through the city's permitting portal, and it describes junior units within the existing footprint of the house. Treat a second unit as something to confirm for the specific parcel, including setbacks, slope, utilities and the review process, not a value you can price in from a listing remark. An existing unpermitted unit is a disclosure and inspection question.

Which part of La Mesa fits your budget, commute and school needs? Ask us to narrow the search.

Collier Park below Mount Nebo, photographed before February 2023. The city sign carries La Mesa's Jewel of the Hills motto; the park preserves the 1907 spring house recorded by the La Mesa History Center.

02 / Prices

La Mesa Prices and What Moves Them

The most useful public market data for La Mesa comes by ZIP code from the Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS, using San Diego MLS records. In its Local Market Update for August 2026 for ZIP 91942, La Mesa and Grossmont, the year-to-date median sale price for detached homes through August 2026 was $901,000, up 3.0 percent from $875,000 a year earlier, on 106 closed sales, with a median of 24 days on market until sale; for August alone, 14 detached homes closed at a median of $876,000, down 5.6 percent from August 2025, at 100.8 percent of the original list price. Attached homes in 91942 closed at a year-to-date median of $557,450, down 1.0 percent, on 91 sales. The report is current as of September 5, 2026 and was checked September 14, 2026.

The companion report for ZIP 91941, La Mesa and Mount Helix, shows a year-to-date detached median of $1,150,000 through August 2026, up 8.5 percent from $1,060,000, on 175 closed sales with 35 days on market, and an August 2026 median of $1,166,113 on 14 sales. That ZIP includes the unincorporated Mount Helix and Casa de Oro estates, which pull its median well above the city's western neighborhoods. Neither ZIP matches the municipal boundary, and the publisher notes that percentage changes on small monthly samples can look extreme. Use the figures for orientation, then ask for comparable sales matched to your property type, street and condition.

What moves a La Mesa price is usually visible from the sidewalk: slope and view, the age and permit history of additions, whether the lot is usable or mostly driveway, distance to the freeway and trolley, and which side of a city line the parcel sits on. A well-kept hillside house with a permitted second unit and a tired one on the same street can sit hundreds of thousands of dollars apart. Condominiums near 70th Street, apartments-turned-condos near Grossmont and duplexes in the Village each need their own set of comparables. We would rather explain the difference between three relevant closings than hand you a ZIP-code median that blends all of them.

This is a comparison of questions to investigate, not a fee schedule. La Mesa homes are taxed through the County of San Diego; the Treasurer-Tax Collector lets you look up a bill by parcel number or mailing address, with installments due November 1 and February 1, and the county's Mello-Roos page explains special taxes. Most of the city's housing predates the era of planned communities, so read the actual tax bill and title report for the exact address rather than applying a citywide yes or no. Eligible low-income first-time buyers can ask about the county's Down Payment and Closing Cost Assistance program for properties in La Mesa. Use the mortgage calculator to test financing assumptions, then replace estimates with a lender's figures, an insurance quote and verified property costs.

For a seller, the closest active listing is competition, while a completed sale is transaction evidence. Both matter. An attractive asking price on a hillside house that has not sold does not establish what buyers will pay for yours. For a buyer, a price reduction is a reason to revisit the evidence and the condition, not automatic proof of a bargain.

Ask for La Mesa comparable sales matched to your home type, street and condition.

03 / Schools

Schools in La Mesa and the Address Check

Two public districts serve the city. The La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, with its office at 4750 Date Avenue in La Mesa, operates 17 elementary schools and 4 academy middle schools, and the Grossmont Union High School District operates the high schools. Helix Charter High School at 4200 Lowell Street, which converted to charter status in 1998, describes itself as both a neighborhood school and a charter school that welcomes students from across the region; its enrollment page lists an application window for the 2027-2028 year opening January 4, 2027 and closing March 1, 2027. Other Grossmont Union campuses serve parts of the city.

A La Mesa address does not settle which campus a student attends, and a La Mesa mailing address outside the city may sit in a different attendance area entirely. Use the LMSV enrollment page and its attendance-area locator for the elementary and middle grades, and the GUHSD school locator for high school, with the full street address and the intended school year. Then confirm with the school. Charter, magnet and transfer enrollment run on their own applications; admission available to one household is not a promise to another.

The nearby-schools module above is a discovery tool. It lists campuses inside and outside the city limits, and its ratings do not establish that a particular property is assigned to any of them. Compare schools on the things that matter to your student: grade span, programs, transportation, schedule and the enrollment process. A school name in a listing should trigger an address check before an offer, not replace one.

Grossmont Transit Center, photographed in January 2020, where the Orange and Green lines meet below the hospital and mall.

04 / Commute

Commute and Getting Around La Mesa

La Mesa sits on Interstate 8, with State Route 125 crossing the eastern side of the city and State Route 94 along its southern edge, and both the Orange and Green trolley lines stop in the city. Which freeway ramp and which station you can actually reach in the morning depends on the hill you live on: a Village address, a Lake Murray address and a Grossmont address can be a mile apart and ten minutes different at the same hour. Drive the candidate route at the hours you will use it, including the final approach to your destination, before treating any house as convenient.

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System's trolley page lists the Orange Line stops in the city at Spring Street, La Mesa Boulevard, Grossmont Transit Center and Amaya Drive, running between the Courthouse downtown and the El Cajon Transit Center, and the Green Line stops at 70th Street, Grossmont Transit Center and Amaya Drive on its route from 12th and Imperial through Old Town, Mission Valley and SDSU to El Cajon. La Mesa Boulevard station opened on June 23, 1989 as part of the East Line, according to the station's history record. MTS does not publish frequencies on that page, so check the current Orange Line and Green Line timetables for the trains you would ride, and measure the walk or drive from the actual house rather than assuming every La Mesa address is close to a platform.

The hospital and the mall are the city's largest in-town destinations, and both sit beside Grossmont Transit Center inside the Grossmont Specific Plan area. Sharp Grossmont Hospital, with 562 beds according to Sharp HealthCare, draws commuters into La Mesa rather than out of it. For buyers weighing longer commutes, the El Cajon guide covers the next city east on the same trolley lines, the Chula Vista guide compares the South Bay via State Route 125, and the Escondido guide covers inland North County. Each is a different city with its own housing pattern, not a substitute for the other.

05 / Daily life

Parks, the Village and the Week Between Showings

La Mesa's daily life runs between the Village and the parks. The Village Association's farmers market page puts the market on La Mesa Boulevard between 4th Street and Palm Avenue every Friday, from 3 to 7 p.m. in October through April and 3 to 7:30 p.m. in May through September. The city's Oktoberfest notice sets the 2026 festival for October 2 through 4 in the Village, with street closures from Thursday, October 1 at 2 p.m. through Monday, October 5 at 7 a.m. and shuttle service from La Mesa Boulevard station. If you are buying within a few blocks of La Mesa Boulevard, visit on a market Friday and read the closure schedule before deciding how you feel about the crowds.

The city's parks page lists fourteen city parks, including Aztec, Briercrest, Collier, Harry Griffen, Highwood, Jackson, La Mesita and the Junior Seau Sports Complex, MacArthur, Northmont, Porter, Rolando, Sunset and Vista La Mesa, plus Sunshine Field. Parks are open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., except Harry Griffen and MacArthur, which open at 7 a.m. and close one hour after sunset; those two also hold the city's off-leash dog runs. Harry Griffen's 53 acres include a 360-seat amphitheater with free summer concerts at 6 p.m. on Sundays in June and July, and MacArthur Park is at 4900 Memorial Drive. Lake Murray, described in the directory above, adds a 3.2-mile shoreline walk under City of San Diego rules.

History is easy to visit. The La Mesa Depot at 4695 Nebo Drive was built in 1894 as Allison Station, moved across the tracks and enlarged in 1915, and is maintained as a museum by the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association, which the museum's page says opens it free on Saturday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m. Just outside the city, Mt. Helix Park's 1925 amphitheater sits at 1,365 feet with views across the county. At the property itself, spend time outside: where does afternoon light fall on the yard, how steep is the driveway, where would a second car park on a narrow hillside street, and can you hear the trolley or the freeway from the rear bedroom?

The Kiowa Drive entrance to Lake Murray, photographed in October 2018. The reservoir is a City of San Diego facility inside Mission Trails Regional Park; the entrance carries a La Mesa address.

06 / Selling

Selling a Home in La Mesa

A strong La Mesa listing makes its most useful differences easy to verify. For a hillside house, that is the foundation and retaining-wall record, the permit history for every addition and deck, drainage, the usable flat yard and parking. For a ranch house near Lake Murray or Eastridge, it is the condition of the original systems and the legality of any conversion. For a condominium near 70th Street or Grossmont, it is the association's finances, the parking assignment and an honest account of the building. Buyers in this city ask early which side of the city line a parcel is on and whether the second unit is permitted; a seller who has the answers ready keeps the negotiation on price rather than on doubt.

Prepare the record before you ask buyers to decide. Gather permits, receipts for major work, warranties, association documents where relevant and the current tax bill. Older houses here should be presented with their age in mind: buyers will ask about foundation bolting, the electrical service, the plumbing and sewer line and the roof, and on a slope they will ask about drainage and walls. Prioritize repairs by what the likely buyer will compare and by an actual budget; the home-maintenance guide is a starting list, while your property's inspection findings should set the final plan.

Timing and pricing should follow your segment, not a ZIP-code median. The August 2026 SDAR reports show detached homes in 91942 selling in a median of 24 days year to date and 91941 in 35 days, while attached homes in 91942 took 44 days, so the right preparation window and the right list price differ by housing type as much as by neighborhood. Review the competing listings, the recent comparable closings and your home's condition together, and remember that a month with fourteen detached closings can be moved by one unusual sale. Justin Tye and the team can organize that comparison, prepare the presentation and manage the path from inquiry through negotiation and closing. Begin with your address and your goals so the plan reflects the property you are actually selling.

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Tell us about your property through our home-selling page. For an initial estimate, you can also use the existing home-valuation tool and follow up with an address-specific discussion.

07 / Why Justin

Work With Justin Tye in La Mesa

Our documented closed-sale record, checked September 14, 2026, lists 37 La Mesa closings recorded in the team ledger between May 2020 and January 2023, all drawn from CRMLS records. After removing one referral-only row and duplicate entries for the same closing, 33 distinct home sales remain, and the eight most recent appear below with the side the team represented. That record sits inside more than 13,500 team sales across Southern California. It is evidence of experience with La Mesa's hillside houses, ranch tracts and condominiums; it is not a claim of market share, and it is not presented as a set of 2026 comparables.

Working with Justin Tye and the team begins with a clear brief: the housing form you want, your budget, the destinations that shape your week and the details that could change the decision, including whether an address must be inside the city. For a buyer, that means a focused search and a documented comparison of the actual closings that resemble the house you are considering. For a seller, it means preparation, presentation and pricing that buyers can verify. Questions about school assignment, permits, jurisdiction and zoning are resolved with the districts, the city, the county and qualified professionals, not with assumptions.

Source: the team's closed-deal ledger compiled from CRMLS records, city field La Mesa as recorded in the MLS, deduplicated by close date and address; List, Buyer and Both sides only. Historical closings, not current valuations. No local review excerpt is shown because the review sources on file do not establish a La Mesa transaction for this team.

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08 / Questions

La Mesa Real Estate Questions

Is Mount Helix part of the City of La Mesa?

No. Mount Helix, Casa de Oro and Spring Valley are unincorporated San Diego County, even though many of their homes carry a La Mesa mailing address and the 91941 ZIP code. The incorporated city covers 9.09 square miles according to the Census Bureau's TIGERweb boundary, which is drawn on the map below, and Mt. Helix Park geocodes outside it. County parcels use county permits, code enforcement and planning. Confirm the jurisdiction of any address before comparing taxes, permits or services.

What is the median home price in La Mesa?

It depends on the ZIP. The Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS reported a year-to-date detached median of $901,000 through August 2026 in ZIP 91942 (La Mesa and Grossmont), up 3.0 percent, and $1,150,000 in ZIP 91941 (La Mesa and Mount Helix), up 8.5 percent, with attached medians of $557,450 and $528,000; the reports are current as of September 5, 2026. Neither ZIP matches the city boundary, and monthly figures move on a dozen sales. Ask for comparable sales matched to your property type, street and condition before pricing an offer or a listing.

Which school districts serve La Mesa?

The La Mesa-Spring Valley School District for the elementary and middle grades, with 17 elementary and 4 academy middle schools, and the Grossmont Union High School District for high school, including Helix Charter High School at 4200 Lowell Street, which is both a neighborhood school and a charter with its own application window. Verify the assigned campus for a full street address through the LMSV enrollment locator and the GUHSD school locator, and treat charter and transfer options as separate applications.

Can I commute by trolley from La Mesa?

Often, depending on where you live and work. The Orange Line stops at Spring Street, La Mesa Boulevard, Grossmont Transit Center and Amaya Drive on its way to downtown San Diego, and the Green Line stops at 70th Street, Grossmont Transit Center and Amaya Drive on its route through SDSU, Mission Valley and Old Town. MTS publishes the current timetables; measure the door-to-door trip from the actual house, including the walk or drive to the platform, not the station-to-station time.

Do La Mesa homes have HOA dues or Mello-Roos?

Most detached houses in the city have no association, because the housing predates the era of planned communities; the state's January 2026 estimate counts 12,436 detached homes among 27,088 units. Condominiums, townhomes and the 10,429 units in larger buildings carry dues or rent structures of their own, and unincorporated neighborhoods with La Mesa addresses vary by development. Special taxes appear on the county tax bill, so look up the exact parcel with the Treasurer-Tax Collector rather than applying a citywide yes or no.

Can I add an accessory dwelling unit on a La Mesa lot?

Often, but only after a parcel-specific check. The city publishes pre-approved ADU plans from 224 to 1,199 square feet and accepts submissions through its permitting portal, and junior units can be created within the existing footprint. Slope, setbacks, utilities, parking and the review process are decided for the specific property, and a hillside lot can make the same plan far more expensive to build. An existing unpermitted unit is a disclosure and inspection question, not an asset you can assume.

What is changing in the Village and around Grossmont?

Two specific plans are being rewritten. The 1990 Downtown Village Specific Plan is in an update that began in Spring 2024, with public feedback on subareas and design standards accepted through February 20, 2026, and the 1985 Grossmont Specific Plan is being amended under Housing Element Program 9 to facilitate higher-density housing near the hospital, mall and transit center, with a comment deadline of July 26, 2026. Both follow the 2021-2029 Housing Element, adopted July 27, 2021 and certified July 6, 2023, which carries a target of 3,797 new units. Read the current draft for the blocks beside any home you are considering.

How do I find out what my La Mesa home is worth?

Begin with the home-valuation tool for a first reference, then request an address-specific comparison. A useful pricing recommendation explains the relevant completed sales, the competing listings and the differences in slope, permits, condition, lot use, jurisdiction and ownership costs. Neither a ZIP-code median nor an automated estimate establishes what a particular buyer will pay for a particular house on a particular hill.

The 70th Street station on the Green Line, photographed in January 2010, at the western edge of the city near SDSU. Check the current MTS timetable for service.

Get your La Mesa home value

Continue with the neighboring El Cajon guide, compare the coast in Coronado, Carlsbad and Encinitas, browse the full San Diego and Southern California directory or Justin's real estate articles, read the first-time buyer planning guide, or use the La Mesa home search. Connect with Justin Tye when you are ready to bring the comparison down to a specific address.

Prepared for JustinTye.com. Substantive research reviewed September 14, 2026. Market windows: Greater San Diego Association of REALTORS Local Market Updates for August 2026, ZIP codes 91942 and 91941, San Diego MLS data current as of September 5, 2026. Housing counts: California Department of Finance E-5, January 1, 2026 provisional estimate, released May 2026. Municipal boundary: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, retrieved September 14, 2026. Native provider-area data and nearby-school results above are separate from the sourced municipal and address-specific guidance in this article. Photographs identify places and context; they do not depict current listings.

Photography credits

Lake Murray with Cowles Mountain: Bill Rand, CC BY 2.0. Trolley cars beside La Mesa Boulevard: KurtM88, CC BY-SA 3.0. Collier Park welcome sign: KurtM88, CC BY-SA 3.0. Grossmont Transit Center platforms: Jacob G., CC BY-SA 2.0. Kiowa Drive entrance to Lake Murray: RightCowLeftCoast, CC BY-SA 4.0. 70th Street trolley station: Stickpen, public domain. Lake Murray shoreline: Laurel Fallon, CC0. Images scaled to web size with their original aspect ratios; no scene content altered. Historical photographs do not depict current inventory or present conditions.