History

El Dorado, Spanish for "Golden One", was one of the original 27 Counties of the State of California. These 27 County boundaries were conformed as a matter of an Act, signed February 18, 1850. Though there were many discoveries of precious metals in the area now known as the State of California, the discovery of gold in Coloma on January 19, 1848 by James W. Marshall produced "gold fever", and the population exploded as hoards of men swarmed into the area.
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Marina Hill

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Elegent Custom Homes in Million Dollar Lake View setting:

Marina Hill is comprised of 32 highly custom dwellings, overlooking the Folsom Lake.
Homes average 5,000+/- SF and range from 1 to 3 Million dollars.
The subdivision is located near the northern tip of the city of El Dorado Hills, overlooking the eastern shores of Folsom Lake.
Its easy access to El Dorado Hills town center, Freeway 50, city of Folsom with its major employment centers such as Intel and Keiser Permanente Medical center, and recreational areas such as folsom lake and lake tahoe with boating, hicking and ski facilities, makes it ideal for those who are interested in highend homeownership, without a limiting CC&R, and High fees such as HOA and Mello Roos.
Come and visit the neighborhood and enjoy its beautiful setting.

Watch the sunset and be in awe by it.

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Community Resources

Airports

• Sacramento Int'l Airport (SMF), Sacramento
• Cameron Park Airport, Cameron Park
• Folsom Lake Airport, Folsom
• Rancho Murieta Airport, Rancho Murieta

Banks

• Wells Fargo Bank, 3935 Park Drive, El Dorado Hills
• The Mechanics Bank, 4534 Town Center Blvd, El Dorado Hills
• Umpqua Bank, 3880 El Dorado Hills Blvd, El Dorado Hills
• El Dorado Savings Bank, 3919 Park Drive, Suite 60, El Dorado Hills
• Bank of America, 3901 Park Drive, El Dorado Hills
• First Northern Bank of Dixon, 881 Embarcadero Drive, Suite 2, El Dorado Hills

Churches

• Bridgepointe Church, 4990 Hillsdale Circle, El Dorado Hills
• Capital Korean Presbyterian, 1441 Tong Road, El Dorado Hills
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1275 Green Valley Rd, El Dorado Hills
• Cornerstone Christian Church, 931 Lassen Lane, El Dorado Hills
• El Dorado Hills Baptist Church, 931 Lassen Lane, El Dorado Hills
• First Church of Christ Scientist - Trader Lane Wool, El Dorado Hills
• Holy Trinity Church, 3111 Tierra de Dios Drive, El Dorado Hills
• Jehovah's Witnesses - Folsom, 350 Green Valley Road, El Dorado Hills
• Jubilee Sacramento Valley Church, 1342 Terracina Drive, El Dorado Hills
• Lakehills Church, 5145 Golden Foothill Parkway, El Dorado Hills
• Rolling Hills Christian Church, 800 White Rock Road, El Dorado Hills
• Solomon's Porch, 2309 Summer Dr, El Dorado Hills
• St Stephens Church, 1001 Olson Lane, El Dorado Hills
• Sun Hills Community Church, 1035 Suncast Lane, El Dorado Hill

Hospitals

• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Folsom
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Roseville
• Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Rancho Cordova
• Marshall Hospital, Placerville
• Mercy Hospital, Folsom
• Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento
• Sutter General Hospital, Sacramento
• Sutter Memorial Hospital, Sacramento

Libraries

• El Dorado County - El Dorado Hills Branch - 7455 Silva Valley Parkway
• El Dorado County - Cameron Park Branch - 2500 Country Club Drive
• El Dorado County - Main Branch/Placerville - 345 Fair Lane

Newspapers

• El Dorado Hills Telegraph --Published every Wednesday by Gold Country Media.
• Village Life --Published every Wednesday by Life Newspapers, LLC, a member of the McNaughton newspaper family.
• Sacramento Bee -Published daily. A McClatchy newspaper
• Mountain Democrat --Published Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A McNaughton newspaper.

Parks & Swimming Pools

• Allan H. Lindsey Park - Serrano; Silva Parkway at Entrada Street
• Art Weisberg Park - Corner of Francisco and Pendleton Drives
• Bass Lake Field - Bass Lake Road
• El Dorado Hills Archery Range - El Dorado Hills Bouldvard between Woedee Drive & Wilson Drive
• El Dorado Hills Community Park -- El Dorado Hills Blvd between St. Andrews Drive and Harvard Way
• El Dorado Hills Community Pool - El Dorado Hills Blvd at Harvard Way
• New York Creek Nature Trail - Southern end begins/ends in the Community Park along Harvard Way across from Oak Ridge High School. Northern end begins/ends near Art Weisberg Park.
• Oak Knoll Park - Hills of El Dorado subdivision, Alyssum Circle off Bass Lake Road
• Overlook Park -- Green Valley Hills Village, Kensington Drive off Sebastian Court
• St. Andrews Park - El Dorado Hills Blvd at Francisco Drive
• Village Green Park - Serrano - Serrano Parkway at Silva Valley Parkway
• Bertelsen Park - Park Village - Arrowhead Drive and Redwood Lane
• Kalithea Park - Gillett Drive at Powers Drive
• Parkview Heights Park - Parkview Heights - Governor and Ridgeview Drives
• Reid White Memorial Ponds at Governor Park - Governor Village - Governor Drive and Merriman Lane
• Ridgeview Park - Ridgeview Village - Ridgeview Drive between Patterson Way and Glen Ridge Way
• Ridgeview Unit 7 Park - Ridgeview Village - Powers Drive and Julie Ann Way
• Steven Harris Park - St. Andrews Village - Tam O'Shanter Drive
• Waterford Park - Waterford Village - Caranelian Circle at Bairdsley Place
• Wild Oaks Park - El Dorado Hills Blvd between Francisco Drive and Brittany Way
• William C. McCabe Memorial Softball Field - Park Village, adjacent to William Brooks Elementary School, Redwood Lane

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Community Organization

The El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce is an association of businesses and individuals that provides the ideas, the energy, the profits and voluntary efforts that make El Dorado Hills a special place to live and work. The Chamber acts as a catalyst in bringing people together for the common good of the community. A strong economic base generates the conditions for a better community in which everyone prospers. As businesses succeed, people are hired, dollars are spent and funds are collected for infrastructure.
In the past six years, the Chamber membership has grown from 200+ members to over 600 members. The primary focus is business to business networking and marketing with a secondary focus on marketing our business members to our community through events and our Business Directory which is mailed annually to all the homes and business in El Dorado Hills. The Chamber operates under the following core competencies: (click here to see full list)
Networking
Promoting El Dorado Hills
Strengthening our local economy
Representing the interest of business with local government
Political action

Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.eldoradohillschamber.com/

Contact the El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce at:
916-933-1335 or chamber@eldoradohillschamber.org
We are located at: 981 Governor Dr., Ste. 103, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Mailing address: PO Box 5055, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

El Dorado Hills Schools & Districts

High per capita income along with low crime rates have attracted many new families to this vibrant and desirable destination of the future. As the name "El Dorado" translates, this is a land of golden opportunity!

Rescue Union Elementary School District

El Dorado Union High School District

Nearest Preschool:



Montessori Manor
2222 Francisco Dr Su 400, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 0.8 miles
Phone: (916) 933-2420
Level: PK
Riggs Family Pre-School
1036 Brookline Cir, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 2.3 miles
Phone: (916) 933-1613
Level: PK
St. Stephen's Day Care Center
1001 Olson Ln, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 3.2 miles
Phone: (916) 933-3714
Level: PK

Nearest Public Elementary School:


Lake Forest Elementary School - El Dorado
2240 Sailsbury Dr., El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 0.8 miles
Phone: (916) 933-0652
Level: KG,1,2,3,4,5
Lakeview Elementary School
3371 Brittany Way, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 1.4 miles
Phone: (916) 941-2600
Level: KG,1,2,3,4,5
Jackson Elementary School
2561 Francisco Dr., El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 1.5 miles
Phone: (916) 933-1828
Level: KG,1,2,3,4,5



Nearest Public Middle Schools:


Marina Village Middle School
1901 Francisco Dr., El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 0.6 miles
Phone: (916) 933-3993
Level: 6,7,8
Pleasant Grove Middle School
2540 Green Valley Rd., Rescue, CA 95672

Distance: 4.2 miles
Phone: (530) 672-4400
Level: 6,7,8



Nearest Public High Schools:


Oak Ridge High School
1120 Harvard Way, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

Distance: 3.0 miles
Phone: (916) 933-6980
Level: 9,10,11,12
Ponderosa High School
3661 Ponderosa Rd., Shingle Springs, CA 95682

Distance: 8.9 miles
Phone: (530) 677-2281
Level: 9,10,11,12
Union Mine High School
6530 Koki Ln., El Dorado, CA 95623

Distance: 14.2 miles
Phone: (530) 621-4003
Level: 9,10,11,12


California School Finder, http://www.schoolfinder.ca.gov/, also provides information regarding school performance, including test scores, dropout rates, and other information such as funding per student, teacher-pupil ratios, and student demographics.http://www.publicschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/11006

Elevation

Elevation can vary dramatically

Elevation depends upon how far out you live from the closest El Dorado County town, because of the very hilly and mountainous terrain typically surrounding many of our county's towns. I like to carry my trusty altimeter to nail down the correct elevation of Anywhere, El Dorado County. The following elevations were taken from the main town center of the below listed towns.

El Dorado County Elevations

El Dorado Hills 765 feet

Cameron Park 1,200 feet

Shingle Springs 1,420 feet

Placerville 1,866 feet

Diamond Springs 1,778 feet

Camino 3,000 feet

Georgetown 2,649 feet

Pollock Pines 3,960 feet

Lake Tahoe 6,260 feet

Modern History

The modern history of El Dorado Hills dates back to the early 1960s when original developer Alan Lindsey began its development as a master planned community. The original master plan, prepared by architect Victory Gruen, covered the area generally north of U.S. Highway 50, and part of the area south of US 50 now considered to be part of the community. El Dorado Hills was envisioned as a large-scale master-planned community that would be completely planned from its inception as a group of residential "villages". Other land uses in the master plan included a business park, two 18-hole golf courses, community parks, schools, a community shopping center, and small commercial centers in each village. The master plan emphasized open space between villages and opportunity for outdoor recreation.

Between the late '60s and mid-1990s growth occurred at a moderate pace as new families relocated from Sacramento, Southern California and the Bay Area. This growth consisted primarily of residential housing, as retail developments were limited to two shopping centers on the corners Green Valley & Francisco and El Dorado Hills Blvd. & Hwy. 50. Each neighborhood created during this time period was given a name and referred to as a "village" by the local inhabitants. The original villages of El Dorado Hills include Park Village, Ridgeview, Saint Andrews, Crown, Governor's Village, Marina Village and Lake Hills Estates. In the 1980s and 1990s the major part of Lake Hills Estates was reorganized into Lake Forest Village, containing the neighborhoods of Waterford, The Summit, Green Valley Hills, Winterhaven, Marina Woods and Windsor Point. Additional villages that have developed subsequently include Fairchild, Sterlingshire, Highland Hills, Highland View and the master-planned community of Serrano.

By the 1990 census, El Dorado Hills had an estimated population of 6,395 residents.[4] Growth slowed during the early part of the 90's due to an economic recession throughout California, but resumed at a staggering pace by the mid 1990s. Businesses, particularly those interested in escaping the high costs of Silicon Valley began to set up operations in the El Dorado Hills Business Park south of Highway 50.[5] In 1995, the Parker Development Company acquired 3,500 acres (14 km2) along the eastern boundary of El Dorado Hills to create Serrano, one of the largest master planned communities in Northern California. Serrano was the site of an innovative case of recycled water irrigation on a large scale. http://www.owue.water.ca.gov/recycle/WCN/Green-Grass_WCN1002.pdf

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Geography and Environment

Actual geography of the El Dorado Hills Community Region is significantly different from the corresponding Census Designated Place. The CDP is to be updated for the 2010 Census. At present the El Dorado Hills Fire Department's district covers about 2.5 times as much land area as is included in the CDP boundaries.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 17.9 square miles (46.4 km²). In a 2005 proposal to incorporate El Dorado Hills as a city, the El Dorado Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) defined different boundaries, enclosing 20,023 acres (81.0 km², or 31.3 sq mi).
In recent years El Dorado Hills has been the subject of a naturally occurring asbestos investigation after high traces of tremolite were found in the fields surrounding Oak Ridge High School. In May 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency released its findings: after taking 400 air samples throughout El Dorado Hills they found that almost every single sample had traces of asbestos fibers. El Dorado Hills citizens responded to the findings by deriding the EPA and hiring Richard Lee, an "expert" that has received more than $7 million dollars over the years for testifying on behalf of the asbestos industry. Lee had previously testified against the EPA in the Libby, Montana case. Lee declared the EPA's findings to be incorrect. There has been no clear resolution to date and citizens continue to live in El Dorado Hills despite the findings.[6]
The subsurface environment of El Dorado Hills is relatively free of groundwater and soil contamination, based upon an areawide analysis of the potential for pesticide contamination and evaluation of underground storage tanks.(Earth Metrics, 1989)

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Community Information

A vital part of this community's future is the 885-acre El Dorado Hills Business Park where many of California's progressive firms have relocated. The Business Park is home to many businesses that are major employers in El Dorado Hills and El Dorado County. The park currently has over 4,000+ employees. Located near the Business Park is Blue Shield of California which also has over 1000 employees and is a major business in El Dorado Hills.

Visitor Information

El Dorado Hills is nestled in the foothills of the Sierras and is the gateway to a picturesque mountain territory. The westward view opens to a vista of the Sacramento Valley and Folsom Lake. The higher ridges through the community offer a spectacular view of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Visitors to El Dorado Hills will find a residential community dedicated to families and their many needs. It is a community that offers visitors the amenities of shops, services, entertainment and restaurants that make their stay more pleasant. In the last several years, this area has also seen great progress in business investments and employment opportunities.
As you approach the residential part of town, you are greeted by a green expanse of the lovely El Dorado Hills Golf Course. El Dorado Hills is an active community with many parks, playgrounds and sports fields. The El Dorado Hills Community Service District maintains these facilities and information can be obtained by calling the CSD at 916-933-6624 or http://www.edhcsd.org/.
Driving up the hill you see Serrano Country Club and Golf Course which hosts several popular tournaments each year. (Including the Annual Chamber Golf Tournament in June) Many residents enjoy a relaxing round of golf in this distinguished facility regularly. Recreational activities in the area include biking the many country roads, walking trails along small streams, water sports at Folsom Lake and the Marina at Brown's Ravine as well as hiking trails around the lake. Folsom Lake has seventy-seven miles of shoreline and is one of the most heavily used recreational areas in the state. It is a part of the California State Park system (800)-777-0369 or http://www.parks.ca.gov/ and is a popular spot in the community.
This community is very involved in education and cultural advancements and it now boasts two dance academies, a musical theatre ensemble and other youth performing groups. All of these hold extravagant annual performances and participate in several community events, showcasing the repertoire of the very talented students.
El Dorado Hills is often referred to as the gateway to El Dorado County. With elevations ranging from 200 feet to over 10,800 feet, there is tremendous diversity in the landscape and much to discover in El Dorado County. Rich in history and with a wide variety of recreational choices, there is something for everyone. The legendary Gold Rush days of this county are relived in the gold panning activities at nearby Marshall Gold Discovery Site in Coloma.
You can also experience whitewater rafting on the American River, or camping and fishing. El Dorado County is the heart of the most diversified recreational area in California, with approximately one million acres of national forest land. Desolation Wilderness area is the most visited wilderness area in the state. The greater El Dorado County area provides ten major reservoirs and has 11,640 acres of lakes. There are an abundance of lakes, and over 575 miles of rivers and streams that provide habitat for over twenty known species of fish.The Sierra provides a choice of several ski areas; all within a one and a half hour drive from El Dorado Hills. These areas offer both Nordic and alpine skiing. Visitors may call Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority at (530) 544-5050 or visit their website at www.virtualtahoe.com/LTVA Visitors to El Dorado Hills may enjoy a day trip to the delightful wineries that have become famous in El Dorado County. Nearby Apple Hill is a host to Spring and Fall holiday activities at fruit orchards, farms, bake shops, craft fairs and breweries.Come and enjoy all the beauty of El Dorado Hills!The local Chambers are a great source of community information. Or look at http://www.visit-eldorado.com/ to see what is available in the county.