Lakeside Drive
Lakeside Drive viewed towards northeast, from near a mountain top southeast of the Lucky Palms lake pier.
Name	Lakeside Drive
World	Lucky Palms
Game	Lucky Palms
Housed residents	13

Lakeside Drive (Name not confirmed, but implied by the street name of the only car road going through it), is a distinctly designed subdistrict of the wider Lucky Palms area. On the 4-lane highway going through its desert, Lakeside Drive is on the eastern ramp, while downtown Lucky Palms is on the western ramp.

The subdistrict is far less green, less wealthy, and more abandoned than the main city right across the road. What appears to have been 3 decently large lakebeds, have almost entirely dried up, except a small pond behind the main house cluster.

Despite the district's poor condition, it has various houses, multiple parks and art exhibitions, its own public pool distinct from those in the main Lucky Palms area, a juice bar hangout, and research facilities.

For various other services, like the city hall, grocery, bookstore, and school, the Lakeside Drive residents have to commute around 20-60min by car to downtown Lucky Palms.

The building architecture, while being more or less based on 1950s Route 66 drivethrough villages, features some rare building strategies: Petrol Palace was converted from a gas station to a residential house, Salty Springs Resort uses foundations to simulate a dried-out swimming pool, and The Perfect Park has an odd structure that looks like a mixture of a concert stage and a large statue.

Residential lots

Populated lots

• Lakeview Manor, 117 Lakeside Drive (Diwan family)
• Crib Fantastique, 118 Lakeside Drive (The Unlikely Twosome household)
• The Breakers West, 119 Lakeside Drive (Isadora Bard)
• Palazzo Paradiso, 121 Lakeside Drive (Gilbert family)
• The Lido, 125 Lakeside Drive (Lancaster family)
• Super House, 130 Lakeside Drive (Irwin family)

Unoccupied lots

• Highgate Hacienda, 120 Lakeside Drive
• Petrol Palace, 124 Lakeside Drive
• Pharm House, 126 Lakeside Drive
• The Fo'c'sle, 127 Lakeside Drive
• Salty Springs Resort, 133 Lakeside Drive (Can be turned into a resort^[TS3:IP] by adding a check-in desk and an Island Beach Bungalow.)
• Sandy Knoll Retreat, 140 Lake View Road

Public facilities

• Lovely Lake Public Pool (Pool)
• Sunshine Art Gallery (Art gallery)
• Lovely Lake Park and Playground (Big park)
• The Perfect Park (Small park)
• The Sandy Place (Hangout)
• The Warehouse (Abandoned warehouse, No Visitors Allowed)
• Area-52 Test Labs (Science lab, No Visitors Allowed)
• Desert Arms Military Base (Military base, No Visitors Allowed)

Empty lots

• 107 Lakeside Drive (64x64)
• 109 Lakeside Drive (30x20)
• 110 Lakeside Drive (50x50)
• 136 Lakeside Drive (35x25)
• 137 Lakeside Drive (64x64)

Gallery

Lakeside Drive map view in Edit Town facing north.

The "Lovely Lake Park and Playground" lot.

Trivia

• The description of Crib Fantastique claims that Lakeside Drive was intended to be a "planned neighborhood", Pharm Haus claims it was a "historically busy district", and several lots discuss that the lakes' water vanished.
• The de facto plot of restoring water to Lakeside Drive's craters became possible 4 and a half months later with Patch 42 if the player places a custom lot that includes parts of the tiny existing lake, and then terraforms the lot to expand the water level.
  • Filling the other 2 craters is also possible but is much harder, relying on difficult procedures for creating custom ocean swimming lots.

Names in foreign languages