Your Next Home in DC Ranch

 

DC Ranch

Amenities:

Approximately 8,000 square-foot facility located on 9 acres

Indoor and outdoor event facilities (available for private rentals)

Adventure playground

Wireless Internet access

Volleyball

Two lighted tennis courts

Fitness room

Men’s and women’s dressing rooms (lockers and showers)

Outdoor heated recreational and tot pool

Basketball court

Basketball courts

Demonstration kitchen

Built-in dance floor

Oasis water feature

The Homestead Playhouse community theatre

Approximately 7,000 square-foot facility located on 4 acres

Indoor and outdoor event facilities (available for private rentals)

Adventure playground

Wireless Internet access

The following is a list of regularly-occuring activities for adults. See the community Calendar for dates, times and locations of upcoming programs.

 

Social Bridge

Residents with knowledge of the game are invited to join neighbors for a fun afternoon of Bridge and friendly competition. Cards and tables provided.

 

Intermediate Bridge

For the intermediate and advanced player, this weekly group promises a challenge. Organized by DC Ranch residents; cards and tables provided.

 

Poker Club

A great way to spend a Tuesday afternoon. Join a friendly game of Dealer’s Choice. Limited antes and bets.

 

Passport to Art

Meet an artist and learn about their work at evening gatherings with displays of their work at Desert Camp Community Center.

 

DC Ranch Film Club

A film is selected several weeks in advance of each monthly gathering and attendees see the film on their own. At the gathering, attendees share insights, impressions and themes during a facilitated discussion. The meetings feature a guest speaker with ties to the film industry who can share an insider’s perspective on the art and craft of moviemaking.

 

DC Ranch Women

This is a welcoming and active group that facilitates social connections among neighbors to enhance the experience of living in DC Ranch. Women from all backgrounds and life stages are invited to participate in DC Ranch Women’s monthly activities, which are organized by members of the group in collaboration with the DC Ranch Community Council. The year-round activities include luncheons, happy hours, facilitated discussions, and occasional interactive outings. While networking is encouraged, DC Ranch Women is not intended to be a platform for soliciting business or promoting products and services.

Kindermusik

Nurture your young child's developing mind and body and help your child develop a life-long love for music. Participants sing, dance, and read, listen to and make music. Each session is 45 minutes.

 

Storytime at DC Ranch

Ignite your child’s imagination and inspire a lifelong love of reading. Join your neighbors every Thursday morning. Your child will visit new places and meet new characters within the colorful pages of children’s books read aloud by Community Council staff or special guests. Each storytime features a theme and related activities. Recommended for children ages birth to 5 years; all children welcome.

 

TGIF Fun Nights for Kids

Little Wranglers: Children in the community ages 4-7 can meet new friends and build relationships with neighbors in their own age group in a fun and safe atmosphere.

 

Tween Nights: A safe and entertaining outlet for children in the community ages 8-12. Participants enjoy themed activities, contests, and games. Dinner included.

 

Teen Escape: All teens in the community ages 13 and older meet at the Desert Camp Community Center to board a party bus that transports them to a local destination for fun entertainment.

 

Summer Sizzle

Stay cool by the Desert Camp Pool in June and July while enjoying new pool toys and games. Bring your towels, swim suits and snacks.

 

Dive-In Movies

Wipe out high temperatures in July and August in the Desert Camp pool while enjoying a free movie on a full-sized outdoor screen. Wear swim suits and bring picnics, blankets, towels and summer spirit. Cool treats and movie munchies provided.

 

Workshops for Youth and Families

The DC Ranch Community Council is a proud sponsor of Workshops for Youth & Families, a Scottsdale-based organization whose mission is to foster personal leadership and resiliency through programs that inspire positive growth and change. Led by co-founder and Program Director Frances Mills-Yerger, Ph.D., programs offers a hands-on, personal approach to learning life skills. Visit www.workshopsaz.org for upcoming schedule of workshops.

Fitness Programs

The following is a list of regularly-occuring activities for children and adults. See the community Calendar for dates, times and locations of upcoming programs.

 

Little Dribblers

An introduction to basketball through games and activities in a safe, enjoyable environment. The goal is to promote having fun while developing a child's gross motor skills, increasing self esteem and encouraging group social skills.

 

Little Kicks

An introduction to soccer through games and activities in a safe and enjoyable environment. The goal is to promote having fun while developing your child's gross motor skills, increasing self-esteem and encouraging group social skills.

 

Yoga Basics

Designed for yoga beginners. Learn to incorporate yogic breathing techniques, body and spinal alignment and how to properly and safely work your body into yoga postures.  This class focuses on stretching the larger muscle groups, helping to improve flexibility. Please bring your own yoga mat, towel and water bottle.

 

Zumba®

Are you ready to party yourself into shape? That’s exactly what the Zumba® program is all about. It’s an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance that’s moving millions of people toward joy and health.

DC Ranch Women is a welcoming and active group that facilitates social connections among neighbors to enhance the experience of living in DC Ranch. Women from all backgrounds and life stages are invited to participate in DC Ranch Women’s monthly activities, which are organized by members of the group in collaboration with the DC Ranch Community Council. The year-round activities include luncheons, happy hours, facilitated discussions, and interactive outings. While networking is encouraged, DC Ranch Women is not intended to be a platform for soliciting business or promoting products and services.

 

The DC Ranch Women 2013/2014 Chair is Liz Osborn and Co-Chair is Judy Headley.

 

Get Involved in DC Ranch Women

Committees are needed to help coordinate and facilitate the monthly social gatherings.

 

General DC Ranch Women planning meetings are held periodically throughout the year.

DC Ranch is a community that values a healthy lifestyle. Located at the base of what will be the nation’s largest urban land preserve, it also has a passion for the desert environment of which it is an integrated part.

 

In celebration of these two cherished ideals, DC Ranch maintains a network of paths and trails within the community. Paved paths meander through the community; soft trails provide a traditional hiking experience. In all, the landscaped paths and trails total approximately 33 miles and connect the neighborhoods of DC Ranch.

 

In addition to offering beautiful views and an opportunity to lead a healthy lifestyle, the paths and trails—with many routes and intersections—provide another way for residents to enjoy the community.

DC Ranch encompasses 47 parks —both “pocket” and formal—that encourage wildlife and provide respite, shade, and a place for residents and their guests to gather and play. Designed to represent and echo DC Ranch’s core values of connectivity and healthy living, parks are at the heart of each neighborhood to instill a close-knit mentality that fosters community building. All parks are un-gated and interconnected with the paths and trails system that that ultimately leads pedestrians, runners and cyclists to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, which is the natural backdrop to DC Ranch.

 

Quick facts about DC Ranch’s neighborhood parks

The paths and trails system-to which all neighborhood parks are connected-- is designed so pedestrians never cross a street busier than the one in front of their home to get anywhere in the community.

Park benches and shade structures are strategically located throughout neighborhood parks to capture sweeping views of the McDowell Mountains.

Park amenities range from fire pits, waterfalls, seat walls and shade canopies to interesting paving patterns, and vine-covered armadas.

Each park features distinguishing characteristics unique to the neighborhood in which they are located and are designed to mimic the natural desert landscape.

Residents can also engage in a life-sized chess match at Homestead Park in Silverleaf village.

Market Street Park, located east of Market Street Plaza, is a half acre of public open space with amenities that include a fire pit, grills, a water feature, small play area, natural stage area and shade cover.

 

The park is a venue for the Starlight Concert Series in the spring and is host to community events. The park is managed by the DC Ranch Community Council and may be used by anyone.\

Since its founding in 1990, McDowell Sonoran Conservancy -- a grass-roots, volunteer-driven, nonprofit, advocacy and education organization-—has championed the need for, establishment of, and safe public access to the McDowell Sonoran Preserve, the Scottsdale area’s oldest treasure. At completion, the McDowell Sonoran Preserve will be the largest urban land preserve in the United States.

 

MSC works side-by-side with the City of Scottsdale to ensure completion, management and public appreciation of the Preserve; continuously educates residents and visitors about the Preserve’s environmental and archaeological significance; ensures the public appropriately access what they have repeatedly voted to protect; and facilitates continuity of the preserve vision in the ever-changing political environment.