Lake Forest
Lake Forest is a city in Orange County in Southern California. It used to be known as El Toro after the Marine Corps training station, which has closed. The city is largely suburban with parks and industrial areas. Foothill Ranch lies within the city limits.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Town with 76,300 residents
- Description: city in Orange County, California, United States
- Also known as: “El Toro”, “Eltoro”, “Lake Forest, CA”, and “Lake Forest, California”
- Postal code: 92630
Places of Interest
Highlights include James A. Musick Facility and El Toro Branch Library.
James A. Musick Facility
Prison
James A. Musick Facility is a minimum-security county jail in south Orange County, California. The county jail is on an unincorporated pocket of land, surrounded by the city of Irvine on three sides and bordered by Lake Forest's Bake Parkway to the southeast.
Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest
Pitch
Photo: Clamshell Deathtrap, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest is a public skatepark located in Lake Forest, California, United States. It is the largest free skatepark in the state, with an area of over 62,000 square feet. Etnies Skatepark of Lake Forest is situated 2 miles northeast of Lake Forest.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Laguna Hills and Mission Viejo.
Laguna Hills
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Laguna Hills is a city in Orange County in Southern California. Very much a bedroom community of upper middle to high class residential homes, the community is safe and well maintained.
Mission Viejo
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Mission Viejo is a commuter city in the Saddleback Valley in Orange County, California, United States. Mission Viejo is considered one of the largest master-planned communities ever built under a single project in the United States and is rivaled only by Highlands Ranch, Colorado in size.
Laguna Woods
Town
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Laguna Woods is a city in Orange County, California, United States. The population was 17,644 at the 2020 census, up from 16,192 at the 2010 census, with a median age of 74.5. Laguna Woods is situated 3½ miles southwest of Lake Forest.
Lake Forest
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Inland Cities, Orange County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.6469° or 33° 38′ 49″ northLongitude
-117.6859° or 117° 41′ 9″ westPopulation
76,300Elevation
486 feet (148 metres)United Nations Location Code
US LFCOpen location code
8554J8W7+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 150971713OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Lake Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لاك فوريست”
- Basque: “Lake Forest”
- Belarusian: “Лейк-Форэст”
- Bulgarian: “Лейк Форест”
- Catalan: “Lake Forest”
- Cebuano: “Lake Forest”
- Chechen: “Лейк-Форест”
- Chinese: “Lake Forest”
- Chinese: “森林湖”
- Chinese: “莱克福里斯特”
- Croatian: “Lake Forest”
- Czech: “Lake Forest”
- Danish: “Lake Forest”
- Dutch: “Lake Forest”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاك فوريست”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليك فوريست”
- Finnish: “Lake Forest”
- French: “Lake Forest”
- Galician: “Lake Forest”
- German: “Lake Forest”
- Gilaki: “لیک فؤرست”
- Haitian: “Lake Forest, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Lake Forest”
- Hebrew: “לייק פורסט”
- Hungarian: “Lake Forest”
- Indonesian: “Lake Forest, California”
- Indonesian: “Lake Forest”
- Irish: “Lake Forest”
- Italian: “Lake Forest”
- Japanese: “レイクフォレスト”
- Korean: “레이크포리스트”
- Ladin: “Lake Forest”
- Malagasy: “Lake Forest, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Lake Forest”
- Malayalam: “ലേക്ക് ഫോറസ്റ്റ്”
- Mazanderani: “لیک فارست (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “لیک فارست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Forest”
- Navajo: “Akʼah Sisíʼí Tsinyiʼ Beʼekʼid”
- Newari: “लेक फरेस्ट (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “लेक फरेस्ट, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “लेक फरेस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Forest”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lake Forest”
- Norwegian: “Lake Forest”
- Persian: “لیک فارست، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “لیک فارست”
- Polish: “Lake Forest”
- Portuguese: “Lake Forest”
- Russian: “Лейк-Форест (Калифорния)”
- Russian: “Лейк-Форест”
- Serbian: “Lake Forest”
- Serbian: “Lejk Forest”
- Serbian: “Лејк Форест”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Forest, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Forest”
- Slovak: “Lake Forest”
- Slovenian: “Lake Forest”
- South Azerbaijani: “لئیک فورزت، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Lake Forest (California)”
- Spanish: “Lake Forest”
- Swahili: “Lake Forest, California”
- Swahili: “Lake Forest”
- Swedish: “Lake Forest, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Lake Forest”
- Tagalog: “Lake Forest, California”
- Tagalog: “Lake Forest”
- Tatar: “Лейк-Форест (Калифорния)”
- Tatar: “Лейк-Форест”
- Turkish: “Lake Forest, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Lake Forest”
- Ukrainian: “Лейк-Форест”
- Urdu: “لیک فارسٹ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Lake Forest”
- Uzbek: “Лаке Форест”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Forest, California”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Forest”
- Volapük: “Lake Forest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Forest, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Forest”
- Western Panjabi: “لیک فورسٹ”
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