Ladera Ranch      Amenities     Community      Environmental      Architectural

Amenities available within the community include public and private schools, a public library, a fire station, several child care centers and places of worship, the Bridgepark retail plaza, two large retail and commercial centers consisting of Mercantile West (Mercantile West includes an old-fashioned "Main Street" with storefront business, cafes and shops adjacent to the Town Green) and Mercantile East (Kohl's, Home Goods, Chics Sporting Goods, and more), Ladera Corporate Terrace, a Town Green with band pavilion, a Sports Park, five Clubhouses, parks in every neighborhood, park plunges, several community parks, miles of pedestrian pathways, and more than 10 miles of trails traversing over 1,600 of open space enveloping Ladera Ranch.

Additional amenities include Wagsdale Park (the first exclusive dog park to debut in an Orange County master-planned community), an authentic water play park, a skatepark, the Central Paseo at Terramor, as well as numerous Ladera Ranch "botanicas" or outdoor gathering spaces where residents come together in natural settings. Botanicas include such recreational and social amenities as pocket, neighborhood and community parks, picnic groves, tot lots and meandering neighborhood pathways all linked to the community-long Sienna Botanica.

Technology: A major amenity found only in Ladera Ranch is LaderaLife, an on-line community network which links residents to one another, local businesses, community social/civic/recreational activities, and the World Wide Web via high-speed Internet access provided by Cox Communications.

Ladera Ranch      Amenities     Community      Environmental      Architectural