Best Neighborhoods in Orangevale, CA

Lincoln Palisades reads as classic Orangevale from the 1960s and early 70s: single-story ranch stock on settled streets in the southeast of the community, with a scattering of attached homes filling in the edges. The footprints are modest and priced accordingly, which makes this one of the more accessible ways into the area. ... See Full Page

Rollingwood earns its name on the drive in, where the streets follow low rises instead of flattening them. It is the largest of Orangevale's named pockets, spread across the southeast of the community between Lincoln Palisades, Madison Oaks and the open Orangevale core, on ground that tilts toward the American River corridor to the south. ... See Full Page

What surprises people about Orangevale is how much land comes with the address. Between the established midcentury tracts you still find parcels zoned for horses and old orchard rows, a holdover from the Orange Vale Colony that planted the groves in the 1890s. The community rolls over low hills northeast of Citrus Heights, hung off three arterials: Greenback Lane for shopping and the run toward Interstate 80, Hazel Avenue dropping south toward Highway 50, and Main Avenue through the older heart. ... See Full Page

Madison Oaks is a compact pocket at the south end of Orangevale, sitting where the community grades down toward the Fair Oaks line. ... See Full Page

Sheraton Park is a small, established pocket on the southwest side of Orangevale, near the seam where the community meets the Fair Oaks and Citrus Heights edges. It borders the Madison Oaks pocket and the broader Orangevale tracts, without a landmark of its own to organize around. ... See Full Page

Woodbridge Ranch is the address you notice when the lots stop shrinking. Set into the northwest corner of Orangevale, it collects some of the community's largest and newest houses, built from the early 1980s onward, many pushing toward four thousand square feet on parcels that stretch to nearly a full acre. ... See Full Page

Woodmore Oaks lines up along its namesake drive on the west side of Orangevale, a tract that filled in between the mid 1960s and about 1980. The stock is mostly single-story with a handful of attached homes mixed in, midsize and priced in the accessible middle of the market, and notably free of HOA fees. ... See Full Page