Laguna Niguel Real Estate

Condos and Large Homes in Laguna Niguel presented by Mc Million & Associates - we sell Orange County real estate in the most beautiful areas of the Southern California Real Estate market. Properties for Sale in Laguna Niguel are in a 14.72 square mile planned community, in South Orange County California and are located halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego. Laguna Niguel Investment Property are surrounded by the cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Beach, Laguna Hills, Mission Viejo, San Juan Capristrano. The city was primarily built after 1980 as an unincorporated master planned community located in the foothills of Laguna Beach. Laguna Niguel is home to many upscale neighborhoods including Bear Brand Ranch and Monarch Point which offer city, canyon, and ocean views. Other major neighborhoods include Rancho Niguel, Kite Hill, and San Joaquin Hills. The City of Laguna Hills is about fostering and growing together as a community. They strive to provide everyone with exciting events that promote the value of being part of a community.

The Cities point of interest included Juan Avila Historical Monument, Fossil Reef Park, Costeau Park.

Juan Avila Historical Monument celebrates the founding father of Laguna Niguel. Juan Avila's home is made of adobe and also served as a historical meeting place. Avila, concerned with American vs. Mexican rule and the results of his land grant should California become a U.S. territory, hosted Commodore Stockton and General Keaney's men who arrived at Avila's adobe ill fed in January, 1847. Avila invited them to camp at his Rancho Niguel hacienda near Aliso Creek where he fed them. The 1855 Surveyor General's Plan Map places an adobe belonging to Juan Avila, on Aliso Creek, just west of El Camino Real, what is now the 1-5 freeway. This adobe was the only one built by Juan Avila on his property titled Rancho Niguel

Fossil Reef Park is 17 million years old - only preserved portion of Fossil Reef in Orange County. Tropical shell reef associated with fossil rich beach sand and 48 species of marine fossil vertebrates. Extending for six miles north-south across the Saddleback Valley is an unusual limestone deposit called the "Pecten Reef". Its maximum thickness appears to be 300 feet. Existed 50,000 years ago - the last of the Ice Ages. Over 42 species of Columbian mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats, long-horn bison, camels, dire wolves, horses, and rodents.

The Costeau Pit was discovered by high school students in the 1960s. A significant fossil site includes several thousand fossil cranial and skeletal elements of terrestrial "Ice Age" animals. This site is located and preserved "in situ" beneath Costeau Park at the comer of Alicia Parkway and Costeau Street. Costeau Pit was situated in an old stream channel in which water flowed throughout the year. Today the channel is filled and covered over by Alicia Parkway.

The school district that Laguna Niguel offers is a top quality school district. The Capistrano School district has high expectations for their students. CUSD's mission is to educate students and to assist them in realizing their full potential as responsible, productive, and contributing members of society by providing an educational environment in which students are challenged, excellence is expected and differences are valued.