San Diego Elks Lodge #168 in San Carlos is a fraternal organization and banquet hall at 7430 Jackson Drive, at the corner of Navajo Road, in San Diego's 92119 ZIP. Chartered in 1890 as B.P.O.E. Lodge No. 168, the organization is one of the oldest Elks lodges in California and part of the national Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, which operates nearly 2,200 lodges across the country. The lodge relocated to its current San Carlos address in 2000 after occupying locations downtown at 2nd and Broadway, 4th Avenue and Cedar Street, and 4th Avenue at Nutmeg Street over the previous 110 years. The banquet hall seats 100 guests and is available for private event rentals, with Paul Douda Photography in San Carlos among the local vendors that serve the venue's wedding reception and celebration-of-life bookings. Lodge meetings convene at 7 PM on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, with a fourth-Wednesday meeting reserved for initiating new members under the California State Elks Association District 1120 charter. A social quarter operates on-site, and the lodge hosts a Sunday brunch on the second Sunday of each month for members and their guests. Charity programming has defined the lodge since its founding, with historical records documenting War Bond sales exceeding $2 million in a single month in 1945, along with ongoing support for veterans' events, children's hospitals, and Elks National Foundation scholarships. The Jackson Drive property sits in the Lake Murray Boulevard commercial corridor of San Carlos, within walking distance of San Carlos Fitness and the Navajo Shopping Center that anchors the neighborhood's retail district. Navajo Road connects the lodge to the Cowles Mountain trailhead to the north and Lake Murray to the east, placing the facility in the recreational corridor that defines San Carlos's community identity. Free on-site parking serves the lodge's event and meeting calendar, and the facility is wheelchair accessible at the main entrance.