Lake Forest Sports Park — Attraction in Lake Forest

I honestly thought this park was a great idea when I first heard of it. I have been here a couple of times to see friends play games and always had great time. The park itself is enormous. Which is one of the reason I thought it was a great idea for the city of Lake Forest. I grew up in Lake Forest and would have loved having this park to play in as a kid.

I decided to go to this park and spend some quality time with the family the other day only to discover that it' creation has ulterior motives, poised to generate income off of non profit organizations at the expense of the community enjoyment. It's basically a park for people with money. It's disgusting to see the city of Lake Forest give in the greed.

My family and I arrived and setup at the pavilions that are located at the park. Once we got there we quickly realized that all the tables had been reserved from 3-9pm. I thought that it was a little ridiculous that the tables could be reserved for that amount of time. We decided to setup and eat since there was no one occupying the tables at the time. We cooked some meet on the grill and ate with the anticipation of being told to move because the tables had been reserved. After we had all finished eating we all decided to play on the field located next to the pavilions.

People began to arrive and and started occupying the tables that had been reserved. As we were playing and enjoying ourself a guy came up to us and warned us that we only had about 15 more minutes to to play on the field since they had reserved the entire filed and we could no longer play. I have never in my life been so disappointed with the area that I lived in until that day. Out of disbelief I told the guy that there was no way that they had reserved the entire field and that we would not be moving, so we just decided to keep playing.

After about five minutes that same guy arrived in a golf cart with a park employee in which she explained to us that the entire area was reserved, and we wanted to make reservation we could, but would have to be a non profit with a party of fifty or more. At that time we decided to grab all our things and leave the park.

I could not believe that someone so simple like spending time in a park was no longer possible. I can't help but think that this park was not created for the community but rather for people with money to generate money. I will never step foot into this park and the city of Lake Forest should be embarrassed that they partake in...

Massive, impeccably maintained sports park with professional size soccer fields, baseball fields, basketball courts and walking fields, not to mention a super fun huge playground for kids, tons of private picnic and barbeque gazebos for birthdays, and social gatherings. There's a community center as well, they have a weekly farmers market, and tons of free parking and clean restrooms. I don't play any sports here, but I do bring my fur baby to walk here every night after the heat has cooled down because it is SO WELL LIT at night (they stay FULL LIT until 10pm!!!), there's always so many people playing sports and having fun every night of the week, it's bright as day light which is AWESOME when you're a female with a wittle fur baby. I have never, ever witnessed any suspicious or shady activity here which is a rarity in this day and age, and believe you me, I keep a vigilant eye out for un-savory people! I lived in the Bay area and out of state for 13 years before coming back home to South OC and I gotta say, NO ONE maintains parks like the South OC, and this sports park is the BEST, in my humble opinion in the whole state of California! Highly...

This goes without saying but if u havent had an opportunity to check this Sports Park out yet I have to ask what are u waiting for? No need to continue exploring other options and reading reviews you have found the holy grail of Sports parks...no expense was spared during the construction of this beautifully landscaped, handicapped accessible throughout the park not just for parking so make sure to invite Grandma and Grandpa to the sporting event because their comfort was considered during the construction of such a well planned and modern community attraction that will without a doubt hold its own for years to come. There is something for everyone here and the design and layout is so open and easily accessible from multiple entry and exits that even at a full capacity I have little doubt anyone would really notice . I mean I just can't say enough about this park and how wonderfully this space was utilized. There is even a trail that overlooks the entire park as well as Saddleback Mountain range and the surrounding cities. The view is breathtaking early in the say day as well...