Overview
About Royal Oak Park
Royal Oak Park is 11.1 acres holding 99 addresses on two parcels, which is the shape of a single attached development rather than a street of houses. The city zones it Multi Family Residential and draws no public street inside the boundary, so the addresses take their frontage from the streets around the edge.
It sits beside the Coyote Creek Channel. Three parcels on the south side of Cerritos Avenue east of the channel are surrounded by homes here and in Old Town West, and the Land Use Element concludes that residential is their highest and best use, citing the homes built next to them in 2013, access to the Coyote Creek bike trail and the high school. Los Alamitos has direct access to that trail at three points, one of them the northwest corner of Los Alamitos High School. Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the neighborhood, and the high school at 3591 Cerritos Avenue enrolls 2,809.
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How Royal Oak Park was built
Royal Oak Park is a small multifamily pocket of about a hundred addresses on eleven acres, and the county's oldest recorded construction here is 1965. That date puts it squarely in the decade when Los Alamitos went from a factory village to a city. Ross Cortese had just finished Rossmoor immediately north, three thousand four hundred homes behind a red brick wall built between 1955 and 1961, and the town answered with Dutch Haven, Rossmoor Highlands and then Suburbia, New Dutch Haven, Greenbrook and College Park North.
A touch and go field went in east of town in August 1940, the first military post in Orange County, and the Naval Reserve Air Base arrived in May 1942. Frank Vessels started match racing quarter horses on his own ranch in 1947 and held the first parimutuel meet in 1951. Los Alamitos became a city on 1 March 1960, and the census taken that April counted 4,312 residents.
By the Numbers
Royal Oak Park by the numbers
Lifestyle
The Royal Oak Park lifestyle
The city keeps 18 acres of public park across four neighborhood parks and five pocket parks. Little Cottonwood Park on Farquhar Avenue is the largest of them at 6.75 acres, with a basketball court, a sand volleyball court and a softball field. Coyote Creek Park opened in 2013 and turned a bare utility corridor into a 3.69 acre greenway along the Coyote Creek Channel.
Laurel Park runs to 4.33 acres on Bloomfield Street with a lighted multipurpose field and lighted tennis courts, and it has hosted the Los Alamitos Girls Softball League since 1974. The Aquatic Center, which the city leases and operates, is home to the USA Water Polo National Training Center and an outdoor 50 meter pool.
Schools
Schools serving Royal Oak Park
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers the whole of Royal Oak Park. The campuses below are the district's, with enrollment from the state's 2025-26 census day count. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.
9-12 · 2,809 students
6-8 · 1,031 students
6-8 · 1,017 students
K-5 · 680 students
K-5 · 641 students
K-5 · 638 students
K-5 · 636 students
K-5 · 603 students
K-5 · 569 students
FAQs
Common questions about Royal Oak Park
What kind of housing is Royal Oak Park?
A single attached development. The county records 99 addresses on just two parcels across 11.1 acres, and the city zones the neighborhood Multi Family Residential. No public street runs inside the boundary.
When was Royal Oak Park built?
In 1965. The county carries a build year on both parcels inside the boundary and both read 1965.
What is next to Royal Oak Park?
The Coyote Creek Channel. Coyote Creek Park opened alongside it in 2013 as a 3.7 acre greenway on what had been a bare utility corridor, and Los Alamitos has direct access to the Coyote Creek Trail at three points, one of them the northwest corner of Los Alamitos High School. The trail meets the San Gabriel River Trail a mile south, part of a 61 mile loop that runs to the Pacific at Seal Beach.
What does the city plan for the land beside Royal Oak Park?
The Land Use Element looks at three parcels on the south side of Cerritos Avenue east of the Coyote Creek Channel, currently holding two industrial uses and a church, and concludes that residential is their highest and best use. It cites the homes here and in Old Town West that surround them, the homes built next door in 2013, the bike trail, the high school and poor access for retail.
Which schools serve Royal Oak Park?
Los Alamitos Unified School District covers all of it. The district enrolls 603 students at Los Alamitos Elementary on Bloomfield Street, 1,017 at Oak Middle on Oak Street, 1,031 at Sharon Christa McAuliffe Middle on Cerritos Avenue and 2,809 at Los Alamitos High at 3591 Cerritos Avenue. All nine of the district's comprehensive schools have been honored as National Blue Ribbon Schools, California Distinguished Schools, or both. The district publishes no attendance boundary map, so confirm the assigned campus for a specific address with the district.