Living Coast Discovery Center in Chula Vista's Bayfront district is a nonprofit zoo and aquarium established in 1987 on 46 acres of the 316-acre Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge at 1000 Gunpowder Point Drive. The center sits within the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and its exhibits focus exclusively on animals native to the Southern California coastline — endangered Eastern Pacific green sea turtles in Turtle Lagoon, sharks, stingrays, and rays in the aquarium, and raptors including owls, hawks, and eagles along Raptor Row and Eagle Mesa. The facility transitioned from City of Chula Vista ownership to independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2010, funding operations through donations, admission, and a gift shop and on-site café. A shuttle runs every 15 minutes from the free parking lot at E Street and Bay Boulevard, and the Bayfront/E Street Trolley Station connects transit riders to the site — a transportation hub also serving guests of the nearby Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center on the Chula Vista bayfront. The touch tank, guided nature tours, and Trail to Bay Challenge hike series extend programming beyond the exhibit halls into the surrounding salt marsh and mudflat ecosystems of the Pacific Flyway migratory corridor.