Forest Gardens Mobile Homes

Forest Gardens covers 77.3 acres on Muirlands Boulevard, the twelfth largest of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site, and holds 494 homes on three ground parcels. The city's land use layer gives 76.8 of the acres the low-medium density residential designation, with 74.7 acres zoned medium density residential and 2.1 acres still carrying an A1 agricultural zone.

The city's recreation layer records five ponds inside the boundary alongside one community pool and one tennis court, which is the highest pond count of any Lake Forest community on this site. Irvine Ranch Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Wednesday morning, and 3.8 of the acres sit in FEMA flood zone A against 73.5 in zone X.

The forest in the name was planted as a crop. Dwight Whiting, a Bostonian who bought most of Rancho Canada de los Alisos in 1884, put in roughly 400 acres of eucalyptus near Serrano Creek as a lumber operation intended to draw settlers to a village he meant to call Aliso City. He also planted olives and grape vines. None of it paid, the dry ground and thin soil beat him, and the town that grew here instead was called El Toro.

Forest Gardens sits on 77 acres of Muirlands Boulevard and holds 494 homes on three ground parcels. The city's recreation layer records five ponds inside the boundary, more than any other Lake Forest community on this site, alongside a pool and a tennis court, and the zoning layer still carries a couple of acres here under an agricultural designation, a leftover from what this end of the valley used to be.