Cameron Park homes for sale and real estate guide

Living in Cameron Park

Cameron Park is a foothill community of established neighborhoods, a private golf course, a community lake, and a small general-aviation airport, laid out in the 1960s on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada along Highway 50. It sits between El Dorado Hills and Shingle Springs and is governed by El Dorado County with local services from the Cameron Park Community Services District.

Cameron Park Drive and Cambridge Road are the main roads crossing Highway 50, and Coach Lane and Cameron Park Drive hold most of the commercial frontage. Unusually for an unincorporated area, the community services district enforces recorded covenants in many neighborhoods through an Architectural Review Committee.

Neighborhoods and housing in Cameron Park

Cameron Park housing is mostly single-family homes built from the 1960s through the 1990s, with ranch-style and split-level homes on quarter-acre to half-acre lots in the older core, larger lots around the country club and the airpark, and newer subdivisions along Cambridge Road and Bass Lake Road. Acreage parcels sit at the edges.

The Cameron Park Airpark, west of the runway at Cameron Park Airport, is the neighborhood that draws attention: more than a hundred homes and lots on streets built wide enough to serve as taxiways, with hangars beside the houses and gated access to the single asphalt runway.

Around Cameron Park Country Club, on Royal Drive and the streets off it, homes back onto fairways or sit on larger wooded lots. Cameron Estates, an adjacent area with its own community services district for road maintenance, has large rural parcels.

Parks, trails, and recreation in Cameron Park

Cameron Park Lake is the center of outdoor life, a man-made lake created in 1951 and managed by the community services district since 1975, with a walking path of about a mile around the shoreline.

The lake, at 2989 Cambridge Road, offers catch-and-release fishing, an eighteen-hole disc golf course, tennis courts, a playground, and picnic areas, with a per-vehicle entry fee or annual pass. The district also runs a community center with a pool and neighborhood parks, including a skate park at Christa McAuliffe Park and a fenced dog park.

Cameron Park Country Club is a private club with an eighteen-hole course designed by Bert Stamps that opened in the early 1960s, plus a clubhouse, pool, and tennis courts; membership is separate from home ownership.

Dining, shopping, and daily life

Everyday shopping in Cameron Park runs along Cameron Park Drive, Coach Lane, and the Highway 50 frontage, with grocery stores, restaurants, and services near the two interchanges. The community has no traditional downtown; El Dorado Hills Town Center to the west and Placerville’s Main Street to the east fill that role.

Marshall, the El Dorado County health system, operates outpatient facilities in Cameron Park, and Red Hawk Resort + Casino, run by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, is just east on Highway 50.

Schools and public services

Cameron Park is served by the Buckeye Union School District and the Rescue Union School District for elementary and middle grades and by the El Dorado Union High School District for high school. Ponderosa High School, in neighboring Shingle Springs, opened in 1963 and is the district campus closest to most of Cameron Park.

Buckeye Union operates Blue Oak Elementary and Camerado Springs Middle School in Cameron Park; confirm assignments for a specific address with the districts. The community services district runs the Cameron Park Fire Department, and the El Dorado Irrigation District supplies water and, in most of the community, sewer.

Getting around and commuting from Cameron Park

Highway 50 connects Cameron Park west through El Dorado Hills and Folsom to Sacramento and east through Shingle Springs to Placerville and South Lake Tahoe. The Cameron Park Drive and Cambridge Road interchanges serve the community, with Bass Lake Road at its western edge.

El Dorado Transit’s weekday commuter buses to downtown Sacramento pick up at park-and-ride lots in El Dorado Hills and on Ponderosa Road in Shingle Springs, and Route 40 is the local bus linking Cameron Park and Shingle Springs with Placerville and El Dorado Hills.

What to know before buying in Cameron Park

Buyers in Cameron Park should check three things specific to the community: the recorded covenants enforced by the community services district, the CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zone for the lot, and, at the edges, whether the property is on a well and septic system.

Covenants: Many neighborhoods have recorded CC&Rs that the district enforces through its Architectural Review Committee, even where no homeowners association collects dues. Request the recorded CC&Rs for the specific subdivision.

Wildfire: Cameron Park is interior chaparral and oak woodland, and portions fall within mapped moderate to very high Fire Hazard Severity Zones, which affect defensible space, building standards, and insurance.

Airpark: Homes in the Cameron Park Airpark are subject to the Cameron Park Airport District’s rules, a street-maintenance bond, and the through-the-fence access policy, and aircraft noise is part of daily life there and on nearby streets.

Buying or selling in Cameron Park

Nick Sadek Sotheby’s International Realty works with buyers and sellers in Cameron Park through local agents who know the neighborhoods, the community services district’s covenants, and the airpark’s particular rules. The brokerage operates from four offices in Roseville, Sacramento, Woodland, and Nevada City, and its listings are marketed through the Sotheby’s International Realty global network.

Buyers can search current listings in Cameron Park and neighboring Placerville, and owners can request a home value estimate. To talk through a specific neighborhood, meet the agents or contact an office. The wider market is on the El Dorado County page.