Santa Ana is surrounded by green.
It’s time to bring it downtown.
Check the intel: Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, Westminster, Tustin — Enlightened fields on every side. But downtown Santa Ana, from Artesia Pilar to Heninger Park, sits under a blanket of Resistance blue. The city with more public art per block than anywhere else in Orange County deserves better. Enlightenment starts with you.
FREE TO PLAY · iOS & ANDROID · SANTA ANA IS THE BOARD
Free download. Choose Enlightened when the scanner asks — then register below to join the Santa Ana operation.
Never heard of Ingress? Start here.
Ingress is a free augmented-reality game (iOS & Android) played by walking around the real world. Landmarks, murals, and public art are portals — you capture them for your team and connect them into glowing triangles of territory. Two teams share the world map: the green Enlightened (us) and the blue Resistance (them).
The board is the actual city
No couch, no console. You play on foot (or bike, or bus) — the game happens at real places you can walk to. It's the game that gets you out of the house.
You're never playing alone
Everything you capture contributes to your team's territory. Play five minutes a day solo, or link up with the crew for coordinated operations — both count.
Master the basics in an afternoon
The in-app tutorial covers the first steps. For the rest: Ingress 101 written guide · video starter guide.
The Resistance holds the heart of Orange County
The snapshot below tells the story: Resistance fields blanket central Santa Ana while the Enlightened hold ground on nearly every side. Closing that gap is the operation — and every new agent moves the line.
Portal country: where Santa Ana agents operate
Downtown & Calle Cuatro
The historic core is wall-to-wall portals: the murals and galleries of the Artists Village, the Old Orange County Courthouse, Plaza of the Flags, and the storefronts along Fourth Street. You can hack a full inventory in a slow lunch-hour loop — and every portal here is currently a brick in the Resistance’s downtown anchor.
Museum District & Santiago Park
Bowers Museum and its sculpture courtyards, the Discovery Cube’s landmark cube, and the trails of Santiago Park form a green-space corridor on the city’s north side. Lighter foot traffic means portals hold longer here — ideal first-capture territory for new agents earning their first keys.
Santa Ana College & the West Side
Santa Ana College’s campus art, Centennial Park’s lakes, and the Willowick corridor sit closest to our Garden Grove strongholds. This is the beachhead — extend the green line east, block by block, until it meets downtown.
Getting around: the OC Streetcar and the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center — itself a portal-rich historic depot — make car-free play genuinely practical, and the walking loops at the Santa Ana Zoo in Prentice Park are a classic level-up route. Playing near the city line? The green fields across the 22 are the front line — register below and help Operation VERDE link the west side into downtown, block by block (pun fully intended).
Leaderboards: assembling the founding crew
Local leaderboards go live once the first wave of agents is aboard. Stats will be verified the honest way — voluntary agent-profile submissions with published rules, for Enlightened agents only.
Be on the founding board
Register below and your codename is in from week one — first fields, first objectives, first bragging rights.
Play hard in Santa Ana. Get recognized.
Recognition programs for Enlightened agents only — we're recruiting for the green team. Specific goals and rewards are TBD with the founding crew. What's already fixed: always free to enter, always skill-based, always published rules.
Field Bounties
Coming Soon
Weekly objectives set with the founding crew — think "hold a landmark portal through checkpoint" or "biggest field of the week." Specific targets are TBD until the first agents are aboard.
Leaderboard Awards
Coming Soon
Monthly recognition for top verified stats. Categories and rewards announced in the welcome channel as the program spins up.
Cycle Championship
Coming Soon
Each scoring cycle, the agents who did the most for the green side take the championship. Format decided with the crew.
All programs are free-to-enter community recognition prizes run off-platform by volunteer organizers with published rules; not run by, affiliated with, or endorsed by Niantic. Spoofed or multi-account play disqualifies permanently. Void where prohibited.
Join the Santa Ana operation
Step 1: install Ingress free and choose Enlightened when the scanner asks. Step 2: register below so Operation VERDE can bring you in — a mentor, the welcome channel, and your first coordinated objective.
Operation VERDE is just spinning up — which means the founding class of agents gets to put their names on it. The map above is the before picture. Every portal you flip and every field you throw becomes part of the after. Register, say hello, and let’s make the first green dent downtown.