Overview
About Forest Creek
Forest Creek covers 87.2 acres and holds 596 homes on 26 streets, with a median lot of 5,700 square feet. It is tenth largest of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site by acreage and seventh by home count. Bake Parkway Plaza sits inside the boundary on the city's shopping center layer.
The city's pool layer records 173 backyard pools inside the boundary, 99 solar installations and 64 spas, and no shared pool at all. That is the third highest count of private pools in the city. Irvine Ranch Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Monday in the small hours, and children go to Rancho Canada Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High.
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How Forest Creek was built
Forest Creek belongs to Lake Forest II, the master association established in 1970 that covers 3,436 homes and runs the Sun and Sail Club at Toledo Way and Lake Forest Drive. That association is the direct descendant of the development Occidental Petroleum began in the late 1960s, building houses in and among the eucalyptus groves. Those groves and the city's two man-made lakes are where both halves of the name come from.
Forest Creek covers 87 acres and holds 596 homes on 26 streets, seventh highest home count of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site. The city's build year layer puts nearly all of it in the 1970s. There is no shared pool inside the boundary because residents belong to the Sun and Sail Club instead, and there are 173 private backyard pools, the third highest count in the city.
By the Numbers
Forest Creek by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Forest Creek lifestyle
Bake Parkway Plaza is the shopping center the city maps inside the boundary.
Lake Forest keeps 31 parks open from dawn to dusk. The Lake Forest Sports Park and Recreation Center opened in November 2014 on 86 acres, with 57 of them given over to sports fields, and the city runs the largest free skatepark in Orange County at Etnies Skatepark.
Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park holds 1,575 acres of county open space against the north edge of the city, and the city's trail map carries 49 named trails.
Across the whole city the general plan sets 3,756 acres to residential use and 3,065 acres to open space and parks, which is why so much of Lake Forest reads as green from the ridgelines.
Schools
Schools serving Forest Creek
The City of Lake Forest property record names Rancho Canada Elementary for all 612 residential addresses in Forest Creek, with Serrano Intermediate for middle school and El Toro High for high school. There is no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
9-12 · 1,902 students
7-8 · 868 students
K-6 · 633 students
FAQs
Common questions about Forest Creek
How big is Forest Creek?
The community covers 87.2 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 596 homes on 612 parcels across 26 streets. It ranks tenth by acreage and seventh by home count of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site, and the median parcel measures 5,700 square feet.
Who developed Forest Creek?
The owner's certificate on the recorded map for tract 8829 names Kaiser-Aetna, a California general partnership, as the subdivider, signed on January 28, 1977. The map itself was drawn by Church Engineering, Inc. under Jan A. Adams, R.C.E. 21687, in October 1976.
When was Forest Creek laid out?
The three subdivision maps inside the boundary were recorded on April 25, 1975, May 7, 1976 and March 24, 1977. The city's build year layer places 82.9 acres of building footprint inside the boundary in the 1971 to 1980 band.
Which schools serve Forest Creek?
The city's property record names Rancho Canada Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High for all 612 residential addresses inside the boundary, with no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
Is there a community pool?
No. The city's pool layer records 173 pools inside the boundary and every one is a private backyard pool, alongside 64 spas and 99 solar installations. Only Lake Forest II and Foothill Ranch record more private pools.