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About Clifton Lagoons in Lakewood

Live where you boat! Clifton Lagoons is a gated residential boating community located at the northwest corner of Lakewood along the scenic conflux of the Rocky River and Lake Erie. Residents of Clifton Lagoons have access to the amenities of the neighboring Clifton Park community, including a private sandy beach with a lakefront clubhouse, a playground, and ball courts.

NOTE: Clifton Lagoons is often included on Clifton Park neighborhood maps. While Clifton Lagoons does have privileges to the same amenities, it is governed under a separate trust document. Click the following link to read about Clifton Park.

Clifton Lagoons Real Estate:

Clifton Lagoons is the only gated residential boating community on the west side of Cleveland and the only gated residential boating community offering homes direct water frontage/water access in all of Cuyahoga County!

Ideally located at the mouth of the Rocky River, you’re just minutes to boating on the River (roughly 800′) and Lake Erie (less than a half-mile).

This private guard-gated community is the safest neighborhood in Lakewood!

It encompasses roughly 35 single-family residences encircling the Lagoon along Beach Rd (addresses include 830-934 Beach Rd).

Each home has lagoon water frontage and direct water access! Boat storage/docking is either adjacent to or beneath the homes.

In addition to waterfront views of the Lagoon, homes may also boast vistas of the mouth of the Rocky River, Cleveland Yachting Club, and/or Lake Erie.

Homes include a mix of century homes and newer homes that range in size from 1,500-4,300 square feet.

Mail is delivered directly to each residence.

Homeowner’s Association (HOA) fees for Clifton Lagoons are assessed in accordance with the tax value of each lot.

Residences are served by the highly-rated Lakewood City School District. NOTE: The city of Lakewood is a “walking school district,” meaning there is no bussing to city schools. All schools are within walking or biking distance of the children they serve. The nearby Horace Mann Elementary School is a 5 min drive or 10 min walk.

Clifton Lagoons Neighborhood Assets:

Clifton Lagoons residents have access to exclusive amenities shared with the adjacent Clifton Park community, including Lakewood’s only private beach (nearly a quarter-mile-long sandy beach along Lake Erie!), a playground, tennis courts, pickleball courts, a half-basketball court, picnic tables, grills, a fire pit, and a lakeside clubhouse (aka the Beach House) that can be rented for occasions.

Such recreational offerings foster neighborly interactions, resulting in an extremely close-knit community. Neighbors regularly meet on the beach for potlucks, clambakes or impromptu glasses of wine.

A security station limits amenity access to residents of Clifton Park and Clifton Lagoons. Select members of The Clifton Club are granted permissive access to the beach and beach house.

Amenities are held in trust for lot owners of the Lagoons, Clifton Park, and The Clifton Club.

Clifton Lagoons History:

The area began as a summer resort in 1869 with beaches, rental boats, picnic groves, a dance hall, and beer gardens. Visitors traveled to the resort via a narrow gauge railroad, the Rocky River Railroad.

By 1894, the property was being developed into the master-planned, upper-class residential community of Clifton Park. However, at the time, there was no lagoon.

During the winter of 1908-1909, the Rocky River and Lake Erie experienced such a deep freeze that the ice caused a depression in the soil at the northwest corner of Clifton Park’s property. In 1912, a lagoon was dredged to accommodate boathouses for residents. In later years, the boathouses were converted to living quarters.

In 1912, the developers transferred Clifton Beach and its common areas into trusts for Clifton Park and Clifton Lagoons lot owners.

Since its inception, Clifton Park & Lagoons have been home to many of Cleveland’s most prominent citizens. One of the Lagoons’ most famous residences is the historic castle-like home at 830 Beach Rd. It began as a boathouse for the 145′ yacht La Belle belonging to Alexander Winton, one of Cleveland’s auto pioneers, who later added the building and living quarters. Sometime later, it was owned by Vernon Stouffer of Stouffer Foods. During Stouffer’s ownership, the home was briefly rented to Eliot Ness (one of the country’s greatest law enforcement officers and crime fighters), an avid boater and party host, who had been hired by the city of Cleveland as safety director.

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Location & Nearby Amenities

The private gated boating neighborhood of Clifton Lagoons is located in northwest Lakewood Ohio (Cuyahoga County) at the mouth of the Rocky River.

I-90 is conveniently accessible in 7 min!

Lakewood’s main downtown area and its Downtown Historic District are only an 8-10 min drive with endless dining options, specialty stores, national retail shops, grocery, and banking.

You are 14 min from the sprawling open-air collection of restaurants, retail and entertainment at Crocker Park — the best shopping on the west side of Cleveland — including Apple, Nordstrom Rack, Trader Joe’s, World Market, Bed Bath & Beyond, Athleta, Chico’s, GAP, J. Crew, and tons of dining options. 

In addition to Clifton Lagoons’ aforementioned amenities, recreational opportunities are abundant! Fitness enthusiasts will appreciate being a 4 min drive, 7 min bike, or 17 min walk from The Metroparks’ Valley Parkway All-Purpose Trail, which extends down to Mill Stream Run Reservation and over to the 81-mile Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail. Rocky River Reservation offers 2,520 acres with picnic areas, play areas, sledding hills, ball fields, nature trails, paved trails, nature center, stables and bridle trails, a marina, fishing areas, boat rentals, waterfalls and lagoons, and three golf courses.  

The 31-acre lakefront Lakewood Park (7 min drive) features an outdoor pool, skatepark, sport courts/fields, Solstice Steps, and a bandshell that hosts free music concerts and movie nights during the summer.

The premier dining and social club, The Clifton Club, is located within the Clifton Park neighborhood at 17884 Lake Rd. The club offers a 3-story historic clubhouse with dining areas, lounges, a pub, and a terrace overlooking a beautiful patio and manicured gardens. 

Directly west is The Cleveland Yachting Club (CYC) – one of the oldest and most prestigious yachting clubs in the nation (7 min drive). Home to more than 300 sail and powerboats, CYC is known for its beautiful setting, family-friendly atmosphere, and first-class facilities including a restaurant, bar, docks, fuel, and a pool.

Westwood Country Club is a 9 min drive.

Driving Distances

• I-90 – 7 min
• I-77 – 15 min
• I-71 – 17 min
• I-480 – 18 min
• Heinen’s Grocery & Whole Foods – 5 min
• Giant Eagle Supermarket – 7 min
• USPS – 7 min
• Hopkins International Airport – 17 min
• Downtown Cleveland – 17 min
• Westgate Shopping Center – 10 min
• Crocker Park – 14 min
• Great Northern Mall – 20 min

Clifton Lagoons Sales History

Close Date	Close/Sold Price	Address	City	Zip Code	Beds	Baths (full/half)	SqFt	Acres	Year Built	Garage
06/16/2024	$800,000	892 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	2	3 (2/1)	2,700	0.14	1915	1
11/11/2022	$690,000	906 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	1	2 (2/0)	920	0.06	1971	0
10/15/2020	$420,000	906 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	1	2 (1/1)	920	0.06	1971	2
05/29/2020	$610,000	916 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	3	2 (2/0)	1,368	0.04	1928	1
05/05/2020	$715,000	876 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	3	2 (2/0)	2,784	0.07	1925	3
04/25/2020	$230,000	852 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	2	2 (2/0)	2,442	0.05	1923	0
11/07/2019	$652,500	916 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	3	2 (2/0)	1,368	0.04	1928	1
08/18/2017	$735,000	864 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	2	3 (2/1)	1,777	0.06	2005	2
03/09/2017	$236,000	862 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	2	3 (2/1)	2,614	0.06	1984	0
03/28/2016	$775,000	918 Beach Rd	Lakewood	44107	4	3 (3/0)	4,080	0.05	1930	1

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