We provide real estate services for a hard-to-describe geographic area of the California Sierra that we call "The Golden Hills." Our turf extends from Nevada City in the North to Foresthill in the south, from Colfax in the east to Newcastle in the west. Our "golden hills" span two counties, Placer and Nevada, conveniently divided by the pretty Bear River. Included in this area are the small towns of Grass Valley, Cedar Ridge, Alta Sierra, Lake of the Pines, Meadow Vista and Auburn. In between and surrounding these towns are forests, canyons, lakes, rivers, creeks, farmlands and the rolling hills of South County. Irish green in the spring, our hills are golden the rest of the year, hence, Golden Hills.
If you click on any of the town links in this blog, you will be taken to our Golden Hills web site where you will find an interactive map that depicts the area and shows the relative location of these towns.
Cedar Ridge, Ca is one of three itty bitty towns between Grass Valley and Colfax along Highway 174. The other two blips on the map are Peardale (both city limit signs are on the same post) and Chicago Park (has nothing to do with the big city in Illinois and also doesn't have a park). Cedar Ridge has almost 300 people unless new some folks have moved in then it would be a lot bigger. Peardale and Chicago Park are not so densely populated. Between them, they offer a couple of stores, a restaurant, a post office, and a fire station.
These communities are near the wonderful Empire Mine State Park with its museum, tours, exhibits and miles of trails. The elevation is about 2800 feet above sea level. The area gets a little snow in a wet winter, but not too much.
So what's good about Cedar Ridge? Homes are affordable. Shopping, culture, and medical facilities are about ten minutes away in Grass Valley. The freeway (Interstate 80) is about 20 minutes away in Colfax, and . . . (my mouth is beginning to water) . . . the orchards!
My gosh, some of the the finest orchards and farms anywhere can be found in the Cedar Ridge area. Apples and pears (Peardale, get it?) from the orchards are justifiably famous, but you can also get fabulous peaches, punkins, grapes, berries, and veggies. Yum.
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