Rancho San Joaquin is a small Irvine Village comprised mostly of high density residential housing. What makes this Village unique is the abundance of recreational activities.
Rancho San Joaquin is bounded by Culver Drive, Michelson Drive, University Drive, and Harvard Avenue. It forms a buffer area between residential developments to the east and the commercial area on Jamboree and the Newport Bay wash to the west.
The Irvine Historical Museum is located here. Did you even know it existed?
There is an active senior center.
The Racquet Club of Irvine calls Rancho San Joaquin home.
Clubhouse at the racquet club.
The Rancho San Joaquin Golf Course is here.
The property has nice views of the Airport area developments.
The course is open to the public and receives a great deal of play.
Par 3 # 13. Don’t be short or right.
One of my favorite places in (or near) Rancho San Joaquin is Boomers.
The local kids play castle.
Speed climbing wall.
Laser tag.
Batting cages.
Go carts for small kids.
Carnival rides for all ages.
Go carts for older kids and the young at heart.
Landscaped mini-golf.
Bumper boats.
The high density housing includes Rancho San Joaquin Apartments. Some have nice golf course views.
There is an internal waterway winding through the community.
The Villas townhome community.
There are a variety of condos.
The architecture is nice, but not award winning.
Most of the properties are very well kept.
Rancho San Joaquin is a relatively affordable Irvine neighborhood with an abundance of recreational activities, and it is conveniently located near the Culver / 405 interchange. If you work hard and play hard, this is the Village for you.
Irvine’s Rancho San Joaquin: A great place to live.
Nice write up. I love playing that golf course. Not too easy not too hard.
I would think it would be a tough sell for condo owners there… right now.
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Nice jacaranda shots! One of my favorite trees, unless I’m parked under one.
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Ummm… did a certain blogger spend the day at Boomers to get all those shots? I’m sure you just went in, took the shots, and left, riiiight? =)
Irvine Chevy’s…
Errr.. Hondas.
I loved the shot of the Acura TL and Honda Odyssey at Boomers.
I call them the Honda Chevys… yup… we got one of each too. 😉
Whatever else you may say, at least we have a sense of value when it comes to cars. None of them fancy leased Bimmers and Benzes like TRidge and Newport, eh?
Ah memories–as young teens back in the early 80’s friends and I used to raise spare cash in the summer by swimming the water traps, fishing balls out of the muck, then selling them by the tees near Culver. An hour or so of work was usually enough to fund a day’s activities, often consisting of lunch at the Carl’s Jr and video games at the bowling alley. Interestingly never caught any flack from the course workers (though we kept our bikes handy in case we needed to make a getaway), but invariably some golfer would claim “oh that’s my ball, I’m not going to pay you for that”. Our standard solution if they persisted in such an argument was to toss it back in the pond.
No mention of the looming special assessment? This is why the homes there are so cheap right now…
(pdf link)
http://rsjnews.com/The_Plan_to_Restore_RSJ.pdf
just to clarify, is this special assessment on the condo/apt only?