The California Parks and Recreation Society (CPRS) is the statewide professional organization for parks and recreation professionals. At its annual awards ceremony held on March 11, 2016, CPRS recognized the Sports Park and Recreation Center with the 2015...
Learn more about the ongoing progress of the Civic Center project.
Lake Forest's New Neighborhoods are part of the City's Opportunities Study - a project re-zoning over 800 acres of business/industrial use land. The zone changes allow for approximately 4,300 new homes as well as public facilities, including a sports park...
Learn more about our parks and fields.
Beginning Monday, August 19, 2019, online registrations will be charged an additional 3% credit card convenience fee per receipt.
The City Council recently approved a new fee schedule for the City. In accordance with the new fee policy, the City will begin assessing a 3% credit card convenience fee to all recreation related transactions made online with a credit card. The ...
The Lake Forest Municipal Code requires dogs be kept on a leash less than 6 feet long in public areas such as parks or on walks around your neighborhood.
Loving and caring for a dog can mean training it, feeding it, playing fetch with it and when it is time to go out for a walk placing it on a leash. Any time your dog is off your own property the law states it must be kept on a leash.
The Lake Forest Munici...
Applications are now being accepting for a vacant Lake Forest City Council seat.
Registered voters who live in Lake Forest can apply for the seat, which opened when Leah Basile resigned from Council because of a family move. The seat is an at-large seat, m...
The Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District has confirmed the first mosquito samples infected with West Nile virus (WNV) in the City of Lake Forest. The surveillance traps were set near Rockfield and Los Alisos.
Inspectors will be out in the are...
Lake Forest City Councilwoman Leah Basile on Tuesday announced she will step down from the Council because her family is moving out of the City. Councilwoman Basile was elected to the City Council in 2016.
In her closing comments at the end of the Council ...
The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the proposed Nakase Nursery development is now available for public review and comment. The legally mandated report studies the potential impacts of the proposed project on traffic, schools and other servic...
A proposal to develop the Nakase Nursey goes before its first City panel on Thursday when the Community Services Commission considers the parks included in the proposal. The meeting is not to discuss the merits of the overall development, only whether the...
The City Council in June approved the 2019-20 fiscal year budget, which allows key capital-improvement projects to move forward while also adding $1.2 million to the City’s reserves.
The General Fund, the City’s operating budget, includ...
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department this month has launched a regional registry to assist families and caregivers of those who have certain medical conditions, special needs or disabilities that may make communication with law enforcement dif...
How many trees are in Lake Forest? What’s the phone number for the Sports Park? What is on the next City Council agenda? Don’t know the answers? Don’t worry Amazon’s Alexa has you covered. The City of Lake Forest is...
While we all know that Lake Forest has a very low crime rate, this is a time when statistics don’t mean much. Our thoughts are with our community members, our neighbors, who were injured in the senseless incident that occurred Tuesday night.
We t...
Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies have arrested a man on suspicion of multiple offenses including attempted murder, carjacking and felony hit and run.
The incidents occurred in the city of Lake Forest, beginning this evening around 5 p....
Come join us for the Lake Forest Farmers Market!
There is a nominal fee for vendors but admission is free for attendees.
If you are interested in having a booth at the event or have questions related to the Farmers Market, please email us. This ev...
Visit our Field Closures page for information on field statuses.