• San Clemente Beach Trail Biking Guide: Routes, Safety, and Tips,Susan Chase

    San Clemente Beach Trail Biking Guide: Routes, Safety, and Tips

    San Clemente Beach Trail is great for a walk, run, bike, ebike with the beach and ocean right next to it.     On a clear morning in San Clemente, the Beach Trail moves at a particular rhythm — runners on one shoulder, cyclists on the other, the train passing every so often, the Pacific quietly doing

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  • Gated Communities in San Juan Capistrano: Marbella, The Hunt Club, and Hidden Mountain,Susan Chase

    Gated Communities in San Juan Capistrano: Marbella, The Hunt Club, and Hidden Mountain

    Just inland from Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano keeps a quieter version of California — oak trees, horse trails, Spanish missions, and the unhurried sense of a place that does not need to prove itself. The gated communities here reflect that. Three of them sit at the top of the market, and each tel

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  • Cypress Shores Neighborhood Guide: Privacy, Security, and Views in San Clemente,Susan Chase

    Cypress Shores Neighborhood Guide: Privacy, Security, and Views in San Clemente

    At the southernmost edge of San Clemente, tucked behind a 24-hour guard gate off Avenida Del Presidente, sits one of the most private oceanfront enclaves in coastal Orange County. Cypress Shores is small, deliberately so, and its residents tend to describe it in a similar way: a place where the gate

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