Overview
About Wind Rows
Wind Rows covers 25.7 acres and holds 68 homes on eleven streets, the smallest home count of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site. The median lot measures 7,273 square feet, sixth largest in the city, and 9.9 acres inside the boundary carry an open space designation against 3.7 acres of low density residential, with 1.8 more as regional park and open space.
The city's pool layer records only two backyard pools inside the boundary against seven solar installations, and no shared pool. El Toro Water District supplies the water, OCFA Station 54 on Pauling covers the addresses, and children go to Lake Forest Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High.
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How Wind Rows was built
Rancho Canada de los Alisos, 10,668 acres granted in 1842 by Governor Alvarado to Jose Antonio Serrano, ran cattle until the drought that began in 1863 killed the herds and the rancho passed to a Los Angeles banker. Dwight Whiting of Boston bought most of it in 1884 and farmed it hard, planting olives and grape vines and then, in the first decade of the 1900s, about 400 acres of eucalyptus near Serrano Creek, meant as a lumber crop that would draw settlers to a village he called Aliso City.
The farming failed. The eucalyptus grew into a forest dense enough that when Occidental Petroleum built houses among the groves in the late 1960s and dug two artificial lakes, the two of them named the city that incorporated in 1991. Most of Wind Rows itself went up in the 1970s.
By the Numbers
Wind Rows by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Wind Rows 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 Wind Rows
The City of Lake Forest property record names Lake Forest Elementary for all 80 addresses in Wind Rows, with Serrano Intermediate for middle school and Trabuco Hills High for high school. There is no split at any level. All three are Saddleback Valley Unified campuses.
9-12 · 2,475 students
7-8 · 868 students
K-6 · 640 students
FAQs
Common questions about Wind Rows
How big is Wind Rows?
The community covers 25.7 acres on the city's published boundary and holds 68 homes on 80 parcels across eleven streets. That is the smallest home count of the fifty Lake Forest communities on this site.
What size are the lots?
The median parcel measures 7,273 square feet, sixth largest of the thirty-three Lake Forest communities on this site where a parcel median describes a detached lot rather than shared ground.
When was Wind Rows laid out?
One map covers the whole community. Tract 9769 was recorded on June 13, 1978 by VTN Consolidated Inc. under licensed surveyor Frank W. Richardson, filed at MM 433/26-28.
Which schools serve Wind Rows?
The city's property record names Lake Forest Elementary, Serrano Intermediate and Trabuco Hills High for all 80 addresses inside the boundary, with no split at any level. Wind Rows is one of seven Lake Forest communities on this site assigned to Trabuco Hills rather than El Toro High.
How much open space is inside the boundary?
The city's land use layer sets 9.9 acres to open space and 1.8 more to regional park and open space, against 3.7 acres of low density residential. That is more open space than housing land inside a 25.7-acre boundary.