Lake Forest II

Lake Forest II is the largest community in the city on every measure this page carries: 908.9 acres, 3,435 homes, 182 named streets and 43 recorded subdivision maps, each of them the highest of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site. Lake 2 lies wholly inside the boundary at 33.5 acres, the only named lake any of these communities fully contains, and four parks sit inside it, Serrano Creek Park at 23.1 acres, Heritage Hill Park at 4.0, Lake Forest Park at 3.2 and Ranchwood Park at 1.9.

The land use layer inside the boundary carries eight categories, from 148.9 acres of low density residential down to a third of an acre of lake, and 47.1 acres sit in FEMA flood zone AE. The recreation layer records four community pools, seventeen tennis courts, fourteen basketball courts, seven playgrounds, seven baseball and softball fields, four pickleball courts, a soccer field and a football field. Addresses feed three elementary schools, then Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High.

Lake Forest II is the largest community in the city and the one that carries its origin story. The master association was established in 1970 and covers 3,436 homes, and it runs the Sun and Sail Club at the corner of Toledo Way and Lake Forest Drive. That was Occidental Petroleum's doing: the company built houses in and among the grown out eucalyptus groves in the late 1960s, and the forest and the city's two man-made lakes are the two halves of the name the city took at incorporation in 1991.

Lake 2, at 33.5 acres, sits wholly inside this boundary, the only named lake any of these fifty communities fully contains. Four parks are inside it as well, including Serrano Creek Park at 23 acres and Heritage Hill Park, and the recreation layer records four community pools, seventeen tennis courts and fourteen basketball courts. The association names ten neighborhoods of its own: Forest Creek, Indian Hills, Lake Park West, Park Place, Parkwood Estates, Parkwood Estates II, Prairie Ridge, Ranchwood, Serrano Ridge and The Woods.