Overview
About Pacific Ridge
Pacific Ridge covers 139.6 acres, the largest of the fifty Aliso Viejo communities on this site, and holds 655 addresses across 692 mapped parcels, second only to St. Moritz on address count. Thirty-one streets run inside it, more than any other community here, and almost all of them are compounded from two words of landscape: Bay Laurel, Brooktree, Coppercrest, Crystalglen, Hazelbranch, Lindengrove, Ramblewood, Stonebrook, Tanglewood, Timberbluff and their like. The city zones 82 acres Residential Low Density, where the municipal code allows up to eight units to the gross acre, and gives a further 25.9 acres the Open Space Preservation designation, the second largest such holding of the fifty.
Wingspan Park adjoins the boundary at 15.5 acres and Ridgecrest Park sits 43 feet from it, 13 acres with a basketball court, a tennis court, a tot lot, a drinking fountain, picnic tables, walkways and a garden. Brookline Park at 6.8 acres is 401 feet off. Capistrano Unified's own address locator assigns this ground to Don Juan Avila Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High, and both Don Juan Avila campuses stand 0.54 miles from the boundary.
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How Pacific Ridge was built
Pacific Ridge covers 139.6 acres and holds 655 homes across thirty one streets. The names are almost all compounds of landscape words, and the list reads like a poem: Bay Laurel, Brooktree, Coppercrest, Crystalglen, Diamond Gate, Eaglepoint, Goldenfield, Grandbriar, Hazelbranch, Heatherwood, Helmcrest, Lindengrove, Mayflower, Meadowpoint, Northwinds, Ramblewood, Ridgecrest, Saddleridge, Sandbridge, Satinbush, Shorecliff, Skygate, Stonebrook, Tanglewood, Thornbird, Timberbluff and Windstar, with Collingwood, Crestview, Highpoint and Flintstone among the rest.
It is a master planned area of several distinct tracts rather than a single subdivision, its housing built primarily through the 1990s and running from 1,470 to 3,080 square feet. That decade was when Aliso Viejo filled out: the county had approved the master plan in 1979, the first homes sold in March 1982, and the city did not incorporate until 1 July 2001, by which time more than 40,000 people lived here.
By the Numbers
Pacific Ridge by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Pacific Ridge lifestyle
Schools
Schools serving Pacific Ridge
Capistrano Unified serves Pacific Ridge, and the district's own address locator returns one set of campuses across the boundary: Don Juan Avila Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High. Both Don Juan Avila campuses sit 0.54 miles away and are the nearest of any kind to this boundary. The tiles below carry federal enrollment counts and distances measured from the city's published boundary. Confirm the campus for a specific address with the district before it matters to an offer.
9-12 · 2,563 students
6-8 · 863 students
6-8 · 803 students
K-5 · 672 students
K-5 · 569 students
K-5 · 533 students
FAQs
Common questions about Pacific Ridge
How big is Pacific Ridge, and how many homes are there?
Measured against the boundary the City of Aliso Viejo publishes, Pacific Ridge covers 139.6 acres, the largest of the fifty Aliso Viejo communities on this site. The city's address layer records 655 addresses inside it across 692 mapped parcels, second only to St. Moritz.
How much of it is open space?
The city's general plan layer gives 25.9 of the 139.6 acres inside the boundary the Open Space Preservation designation, the second largest such holding of the fifty communities here, with 82 acres zoned Residential Low Density. At 655 addresses over 139.6 acres the measured density is under five to the acre, the sixth lowest here.
Which schools serve Pacific Ridge?
Capistrano Unified's own address locator returns Don Juan Avila Elementary for TK through grade 5, then Don Juan Avila Middle and Aliso Niguel High, and it returns the same three at every interior point across the boundary. Don Juan Avila Elementary enrolled 672 students on the 2024-25 federal count and the middle school 863, both 0.54 miles off, and Aliso Niguel High 2,563 at 2.11 miles.
When was it subdivided, and when was it built?
Fourteen maps cover it, recorded between 23 August 1989 and 11 June 1991, with eight of them in 1990. No single map takes more than eleven percent of the boundary. The county assessor's parcel record carries a year built on 134 of the 692 parcels inside it, and 102 of those read 1990.
What parks are nearby?
Wingspan Park adjoins the boundary at 15.5 acres. Ridgecrest Park is 43 feet off at 13 acres, with a basketball court, a tennis court, a tot lot, a drinking fountain, picnic tables, walkways and a garden. Brookline Park at 6.8 acres is 401 feet and Canyon View Park at 23.8 acres is 1,520 feet. All four are kept by the Aliso Viejo Community Association.