Overview
About Lakeside Park
Lakeside Park covers 24.8 acres and holds 200 homes on three streets, with a median lot of 1,419 square feet, the smallest detached lot median of any Lake Forest community on this site. The city's land use layer gives 14.6 of the acres the low-medium density residential designation and zones the same ground high density residential.
The city's pool layer records no pool of any kind inside the boundary, private or shared, which is true of only one other Lake Forest community here. Irvine Ranch Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Wednesday morning, and children go to Rancho Canada Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High.
View available homes in Lakeside ParkHistory
How Lakeside Park was built
Lakeside Park was built in 1971, which puts it among the first things standing after Occidental Petroleum began developing this ground. The company built houses in and among eucalyptus groves that had grown much denser since they were planted around the turn of the century, and the forest and the city's two man-made lakes gave the city the name it took at incorporation in 1991, replacing El Toro.
Lakeside Park covers 25 acres and holds 200 homes on three streets, with a median lot of 1,419 square feet, the smallest detached lot median of any Lake Forest community on this site. Residents hold Sun and Sail Club membership, which is why there is no pool of any kind inside the boundary, private or shared, something true of only one other community here.
By the Numbers
Lakeside Park by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Lakeside Park lifestyle
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 Lakeside Park
The City of Lake Forest property record names Rancho Canada Elementary for all 209 addresses in Lakeside Park, 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 Lakeside Park
How big is Lakeside Park?
The community covers 24.8 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 200 homes on 209 parcels across three streets.
What size are the lots?
The median parcel measures 1,419 square feet, the smallest of the thirty-three Lake Forest communities on this site where a parcel median describes a detached lot rather than shared ground. The next smallest, the Classics at Lake Forest, measures 3,535.
When was Lakeside Park laid out?
Tract 7174 was recorded on October 29, 1970 and tract 7395 on June 18, 1971, both surveyed by Frank W. Richardson. That first date makes Lakeside Park the fifth earliest mapped of the forty-five Lake Forest communities whose recorded map date could be established.
Is there a community pool?
No. The city's pool layer records no pool of any kind inside the boundary, private or shared. Portola Center South is the only other Lake Forest community on this site with the same reading.
Which schools serve Lakeside Park?
The city's property record names Rancho Canada Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and El Toro High for all 209 addresses inside the boundary, with no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.