Overview
About Parkside
Parkside covers 29.9 acres and holds 195 homes on six streets, with a median lot of 4,027 square feet. The city zones eleven acres of the boundary simply as R-Residential, and the whole boundary sits in FEMA flood zone X.
The association runs one community pool and two spas, the only recreation the city's layer records inside the boundary. El Toro Water District supplies the water, street sweeping runs Friday in the small hours, and children go to Del Cerro Elementary, Los Alisos Intermediate and Mission Viejo High, the same three campuses that serve Baker Ranch, Portola Center North and Portola Center South.
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How Parkside was built
Parkside sits at the northern end of Lake Forest, on ground that was part of Rancho Canada de los Alisos. Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado granted those 10,668 acres to Jose Antonio Serrano in 1842 and Pio Pico enlarged the grant in 1846, and Serrano ran cattle on it until the drought that began in 1863 killed the herds and forced the rancho into foreclosure.
Dwight Whiting of Boston bought most of it in 1884, meaning to build an English village called Aliso City. He planted olives, grape vines and about 400 acres of eucalyptus near Serrano Creek as a lumber crop. The farming failed on dry ground and thin soil, but the eucalyptus grew into a dense forest, and when Occidental Petroleum built houses among the trees in the late 1960s and dug two artificial lakes the future city acquired both halves of its name. El Toro became Lake Forest by referendum at incorporation in 1991.
By the Numbers
Parkside by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Parkside 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 Parkside
The City of Lake Forest property record names Del Cerro Elementary for all 196 addresses in Parkside, with Los Alisos Intermediate for middle school and Mission Viejo High for high school. There is no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
9-12 · 1,566 students
7-8 · 595 students
K-6 · 390 students
FAQs
Common questions about Parkside
How big is Parkside?
The community covers 29.9 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 195 homes on 196 parcels across six streets. The median parcel measures 4,027 square feet.
When was Parkside built?
It is the newest community in Lake Forest by recorded map date. Both subdivision maps under it were recorded on November 2, 2016, engineered by Hunsaker and Associates Irvine under licensed surveyor Robert L. Wheeler IV. No other community on this site carries a later first recording.
Which schools serve Parkside?
The city's property record names Del Cerro Elementary, Los Alisos Intermediate and Mission Viejo High for all 196 addresses inside the boundary, with no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
Is there a community pool?
Yes. The city's recreation layer records one community pool and two spas inside the boundary, and no private pool at all.
Who provides water and city services?
El Toro Water District supplies water. The city sweeps the streets here on Friday between 12am and 6am, and Orange County Fire Authority Station 19 at 23022 El Toro Road covers the addresses. The ZIP code is 92630.