#1 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Wild Rivers Waterpark Irvine CA ~2.40 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Wild Rivers Waterpark Wild Rivers is a waterpark in Irvine, California. Its flagship rides include Patriot and The Abyss. Wild Rivers has over 40 rides and attractions and is open from mid-May to September. In June 2009, Wild Rivers opened their newest attraction for kids, called Buccaneer Bay.Before Wild Rivers was built, the land was a drive-through zoo called Lion Country Safari, but the Safari went bankrupt and closed down in the 1980s. Wild Rivers opened in 1986 with just four rides. A few years later Wild Rivers opened the first side by side wave pools in the country.General tickets, for guests over 48" tall, cost $32.98 and junior tickets, for guests under 48", cost $19.98. Admission after 4:00 p.m. is $21.98 ($16.98 for juniors). Children under 2 years old are free, and seniors over 65 years old... | #2 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Irvine Spectrum Center Irvine CA ~2.88 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Irvine Spectrum Center The Irvine Spectrum Center is an outdoor mall on the south-east edge of Irvine, California, centered on a large Edwards 21 Cinemas movie theater. Built over a 10-year period, the first phase of the mall opened in 1995, with the second phase following soon after in 1998. The third phase was completed in 2002. The fourth and fifth phases were built and completed through 2005 and 2006. It also boasts the gamut of normal mall shop chains including Barnes & Noble, Macy's, Nordstrom and H&M. Some restaurants include Javier's Cantina, Cheesecake Factory, P.F. Chang's China Bistro, The Yard House, Izakaya Sushi, California Pizza Kitchen, Johnny Rockets, Veggie Grill, Red Robin, Ruby's, Champps, a food court with free wifi and more. The Irvine Spectrum Center also hosts The Improv and Dave and Bust... | #3 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Arden Modjeska Historic Site Irvine CA ~3.71 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Arden Modjeska Historic Site
| #4 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Irvine Valley College 5500 Irvine Center Dr Irvine CA - 949-451-5100 ~5.47 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Irvine Valley College Irvine Valley College (IVC) is a community college in Irvine, California and it is a part of the California Community Colleges system. Irvine Valley College and its sister college, Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, comprise the South Orange County Community College District. Opened in 1979 as Saddleback College North Campus, Irvine Valley College received its current name and independent status in July 1985. In July 1988, the college received its first accreditation as a separate institution by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The college offers programs from the traditional liberal arts and sciences to advanced technologies. It is about 3 miles away from both the 5 freeway and 405 freeway. The school is also about 10 miles from Corona del Mar State Beach. | #5 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Laguna Beach Laguna Beach CA ~5.67 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Laguna Beach Laguna Beach is a seaside resort and artist community located in southern Orange County, California, approximately 24 miles (39 km) southeast of the county seat of Santa Ana. Its population was 23,727 at the 2000 census. It is known for having some of the most beautiful beaches in southern California. The city is also known for its hotels, unique shops, restaurants, world famous art galleries, and art festivals. Several movies and TV shows have been filmed there. | #6 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods University of California Irvine Irvine CA ~6.41 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to University of California Irvine
| #7 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Bren Events Center Irvine CA ~6.96 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Bren Events Center Bren Events Center was built in 1987. Parkin Architects Limited served as the architects for the building, which was renamed "Donald Bren Events Center" in 1988. The University of California, Irvine renamed the structure in honor of real estate mogul and chairman of the Irvine Company, Donald Bren, upon receipt of a $1,500,000 donation.The stadium is 90,000 square feet (8,400 m2), built on two levels. It seats 4,984 for basketball games, 5,430 for concerts, and up to 5,608 people total. | #8 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods The District at Tustin Legacy Jamboree Road and Barranca Parkway Tustin CA ~7.87 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to The District at Tustin Legacy The District at Tustin Legacy is Orange County’s newest shopping and entertainment destination. A one million square-foot lifestyle center boasting your favorite retailers such as: Whole Foods Market, Costco, Target, Lowe’s and TJ Maxx/Home Goods. The District also has many specialty retail shops, including, Pinkberry and The District Eye Care; as well as, service and health & beauty focused businesses like Wells Fargo Bank, Legacy Cleaners, Facelogic, and Mode Salon Aveda. Pei Wei Asian Diner, Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que, Native Foods Cafe, Marmalade Cafe and The Winery Restaurant & Wine Bar are just a few of the many dining options that can be found here.However, what really sets The District apart from other shopping experiences is The District Promenade, which is positioned at the... http://www.thedistricttl.com | #9 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Fashion Island Orange County CA ~8.00 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Fashion Island Opened in 1967 as part of Newport Center, the mall featured four department stores: Buffum's, J. W. Robinson's, The Broadway, and J.C. Penney. These four initial buildings were designed by architects William Pereira and Welton Becket, and were flanked by several smaller stores. The Spanish architectural theme which would later define the mall was evident in the Robinson's building. A few years later, Bullocks Wilshire (which later became I. Magnin) and Neiman Marcus were added. In the early 1980s, J.C. Penney moved out, and the building it occupied was reconstructed and reopened as "Atrium Court", which contained numerous smaller shops and a food court on the lower level.The southwest entrance to Robinson's features a bronze wind-chime sculpture by mural artist Tom Van Sant, installed ... | #10 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Corona Del Mar State Beach Ocean Boulevard Corona Del Mar CA ~8.03 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Corona Del Mar State Beach http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=652 | #11 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Irvine Museum 18881 Von Karman Ave # 100 Irvine CA - 949-476-0294 ~8.22 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Irvine Museum The Irvine Museum is located at 18881 Von Karman Avenue, Ground Floor, in Irvine, California. Museum hours are available on the Museum's webiste. | #12 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Orange County Museum of Art Orange County CA ~8.23 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Orange County Museum of Art The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is a museum located in Newport Beach, California.The museum's collection comprises nearly 2,500 objects, with a concentration on the art of California from the early 20th century to present. Exhibits include traditional paintings, sculptures and photography, as well as new media in the form of video, digital and installation art.Each month, the museum hosts events such as Thursday evening lectures, artists' talks and special activities for children. Some 15,000 children and adults participate in award winning education programs annually. | #13 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Mission San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano CA ~8.50 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Mission San Juan Capistrano Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded on All Saints Day November 1, 1776 by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan Order. Named for Giovanni da Capistrano, a 15th century theologian and "warrior priest" who resided in the Abruzzo region of Italy, San Juan Capistrano has the distinction of being home to the oldest building in California still in use, a chapel built in 1782; known alternately as "Serra's Chapel" and "Father Serra's Church," it is the only extant structure where it has been documented that the padre Junipero Serra celebrated mass. One of the best known of the Alta California missions (and one of the few missions to have actually been founded twice — others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La Purísima Concepción) — the site was originally consecrated on October 30... | #14 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Decora San Juan Capistrano CA ~8.51 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Decora Art gallery | #15 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Fuller Theological Seminary 2041 Business Center Dr # 201 Irvine CA - 949-975-0775 ~8.54 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary, with its main campus in Pasadena, California, is the largest multi-denominational Christian seminary in the world. The seminary is "arguably the most influential, by number of pastors and educators trained..."Fuller Theological Seminary was founded in 1947 by Charles E. Fuller, a radio evangelist known for his "Old Fashioned Gospel Hour" show, and Harold Ockenga, the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston. With its founding, the seminary's founders sought to reform fundamentalism from its separatist and sometimes anti-intellectual stance of the 1920-40 era. Fuller envisaged that the seminary would become "a Caltech of the evangelical world."Most of the earliest faculty held to theologically and socially conservative views, though professors with differing... http://www.fuller.edu | #16 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Santa Ana CA ~8.73 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Tustin Marine Corps Air Station Marine Corps Air Station Tustin is a former United States Marine Corps air station, located in Tustin, California.The Air Station was established in 1942 as Naval Air Station Santa Ana, a base for airship operations in support of the United States Navy's coastal patrol efforts during World War II. NAS Santa Ana was decommissioned in 1949. In 1951, the facility was reactivated as Marine Corps Air Station Santa Ana to support the Korean War. It was the country's first air facility developed solely for helicopter operations. It was renamed Marine Corps Air Station Tustin in 1970.During the Vietnam War, the base was a center for on-going testing of radar installations which were erected, tested, disassembled and shipped to Vietnam. It also was a training facility for helicopter pilots.... | #17 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Helistream 3000 Airway Ave # 350 Costa Mesa CA - 714-662-3163 ~9.19 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Helistream HeliStream offers complete rotary wing pilot training programs ranging from Private Pilot through Airline Transport Pilot. Each course is individually tailored to meet your personal needs and goals. The keynote at HeliStream is providing professional flight training without compromise. Our Certified Flight Instructors are highly qualified and engaged in the full time endeavor of turning out the finest pilots in the industry.Our training helicopters range from the Robinson R22 and Robinson R44, for primary flight training, to the MD 500, Eurocopter AS350 and Bell 205. As a result of our training hours in the Robinson R22, we have found that our graduates easily make a transition to other makes and models of helicopters in just a few hours. This is due to the fact that the Robinson R22 i... | #18 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Spirit Life Bible College 17601 Fitch Irvine CA - 949-833-3555 ~9.29 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Spirit Life Bible College
| #19 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Balboa Pavilion Balboa Island CA ~9.40 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Balboa Pavilion
| #20 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Vanguard University 55 Fair Dr Costa Mesa CA - 714-556-3610 ~10.22 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Vanguard University Vanguard University of Southern California is located in Costa Mesa, California, USA on 55 Fair Drive, across the street from the OC Fair & Event Center. Founded in 1920 as the Southern California Bible School, the undergraduate school became accredited in 1964, the graduate school in 1983. It was known as Southern California College until 1999 when it applied for, and was granted, university status, at which time it adopted its current name to avoid confusion with the University of Southern California. Vanguard is a Christian Comprehensive University of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and is owned by the Southern California District of the Assemblies of God. http://www.vanguard.edu | #21 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Orange County Fairgrounds 88 Fair Dr Costa Mesa CA ~10.24 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Orange County Fairgrounds Shortly after Orange County was created in 1889, the Orange County Community Fair Corporation was formed. This group put on a small fair in 1890 that included a horse race and a few exhibits in Santa Ana. In 1894, another group, the Orange County Fair Association, Inc., took over the organization of the Fair.The first Orange County Fairs were primarily livestock exhibitions and horse races. At the turn of the century, a "carnival of products" was added and the Fair became an annual event. In ensuing years, the Fair was held in Santa Ana, but after World War I it was moved to Huntington Beach for two years and then back to temporary grounds on East Fruit Street in Santa Ana.In 1916, the Fair was taken over by the newly organized Orange County Farm Bureau. The first OC Fair Board was... | #22 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Us Air Force Dept 2651 Newport Blvd Costa Mesa CA - 714-668-2300 ~10.28 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Us Air Force Dept The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial warfare, space warfare, and cyberwarfare service branch of the United States armed forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947. It is the most recent branch of the U.S. military to be formed. In its 2010 Posture Statement, the USAF articulates its core functions as Nuclear Deterrence Operations, Special Operations, Air Superiority, Global Integrated ISR, Space Superiority, Command and Control, Cyberspace Superiority, Personnel Recovery, Global Precision Attack, Building Partnerships, Rapid Global Mobility and Agile Combat Support.As of 2009 the USAF operates 5,573 manned air... | #23 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Orange County Museum of Art 3333 Bristol St # 1000 Costa Mesa CA - 714-662-3366 ~10.32 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Orange County Museum of Art The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is a museum located in Newport Beach, California.The museum's collection comprises nearly 2,500 objects, with a concentration on the art of California from the early 20th century to present. Exhibits include traditional paintings, sculptures and photography, as well as new media in the form of video, digital and installation art.Each month, the museum hosts events such as Thursday evening lectures, artists' talks and special activities for children. Some 15,000 children and adults participate in award winning education programs annually. | #24 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods South Coast Plaza Costa Mesa CA ~10.51 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to South Coast Plaza South Coast Plaza is an upscale shopping mall in Costa Mesa, California, USA, in Orange County. It is the third biggest mall in the United States, with the second highest sales-volume in California at $800 per square feet—second only to Westfield Valley Fair in San Jose-Santa Clara, at $809 per square feet. The national average is $411 per square feet.Segerstrom, both partners in the family's business operations, opened a shopping center called "South Coast Plaza" in one of the family's lima bean fields in rapidly growing Orange County. Originally anchored by a May Company that had opened in late 1966 and Sears, the initial phase of the mall was designed by Victor Gruen. It was built the same year as The Irvine Company's neighboring Fashion Island in Newport Beach.The success of the ... | #25 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Orange Coast College 2701 Fairview Rd Costa Mesa CA - 714-432-5072 ~10.77 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Orange Coast College Orange Coast College (OCC), founded in 1947, with its first classes opening in the fall of 1948, is a community college providing two-year associate of art and science degrees, certificates of achievement, and lower-division classes transferable to other colleges and universities. This college is a large population type campus. The school enrolls 24,424 undergraduate students which is more than neighboring local university such as Chapman University and University of California, Irvine. It is located in Costa Mesa, California, about 40 miles (63 km) south of Los Angeles. It is about 2 miles away from both the 55 freeway and 405 freeway as well as State Route 73. It is about 10 miles from Corona del Mar State Beach. It is 20 minutes from Disneyland, and from two hours to a half day from the... http://www.occ.cccd.edu | #26 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Goat Hill Tavern Auto Museum 1822 Newport Blvd Costa Mesa CA - 949-631-1057 ~10.78 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Goat Hill Tavern Auto Museum 1822 Newport BlvdCosta Mesa, CA 92627 Tel. +1 949.631.1057 | #27 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Noah Fine Arts 1599 Superior Ave # B2 Costa Mesa CA - 949-646-9920 ~11.00 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Noah Fine Arts Providing surreal paintings of mermaids, fairies, angels and roses as well as florals on canvas, water sculptures and metal paintings. | #28 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Costa Mesa Historical Society 1870 Anaheim Ave Costa Mesa CA - 949-631-5918 ~11.03 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Costa Mesa Historical Society The Costa Mesa Historical Society welcomes you to its online home. The Society is an all-volunteer, non-profit group whose mission is to collect, preserve and promote the history of the Costa Mesa area.We encourage anyone interested in Costa Mesa history to explore our website. Also, we extend an open invitation to interested individuals, families, students, professionals, businesses and organizations to become members of the Society. | #29 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Newport Beach Newport Beach CA ~11.08 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Newport Beach Newport Beach, incorporated in 1906, is a city in Orange County, California, 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Santa Ana. As of January 1, 2009, the population was 86,252. The current OMB metropolitan designation for Newport Beach lies within the Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine area. The city's median family income and property values consistently place high in national rankings making Newport Beach one of the wealthiest communities in California, and in United States overall. As of February 2010 Portfolio.com ranked Newport Beach, California the richest U.S. city. The Daily Pilot, Costa Mesa, CA a neighboring city newspaper reported more than a quarter households have an income greater than $200,000, and the median value for homes exceeds $1 million. | #30 of 30 Things To Do in Laguna Woods Santa Ana Zoo 1801 E Chestnut Ave Santa Ana CA ~11.10 miles from Laguna Woods city center Hotels Close to Santa Ana Zoo The Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park in Santa Ana, California is a 20-acre (81,000 m2) site focusing on the animals and plants of Central and South America. The Santa Ana Zoo hosts more than 270,000 people annually. The zoo opened in 1952 and is owned and operated by the City of Santa Ana. Joseph Prentice donated land for the zoo with the stipulation that the city must keep at least 50 monkeys at all times, the zoo maintains an extensive primate collection with over a dozen species from around the world.The focus of the Santa Ana Zoo is recreation, education, and conservation.The Santa Ana Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. http://www.santaanazoo.org |
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