Cameron Park is home to the Cameron Park Airport, a private airstrip with homes that offer airplane hangers for garages. It’s not unusual to see antique planes or private jets flying overhead and on the weekends you’ll hear and see a variety of different aircraft taking off & landing along Cameron Park Rd. 

Located along Hwy 50 between El Dorado Hills and Placerville this small town has been renovating it’s image over the past few years. The old Sam’s Railroad Junction has expanded and a lot of new retail has gone in to replace the vacancies. Across the street is a new Applebee’s and Food 4 Less which makes it the 3rd grocery store in this town. As far as services go it has the essentials and major shopping is only 10 minutes down the road in Folsom. The small town feeling lingers but you know that suburbia is encroaching.

What Cameron Park really offers is vast open spaces close to an urban environment. There are a couple of great places to eat but most people move here to get a little space around them. Most of the subdivisions have a minimum of 1/3 acre lots, some have valley views and the really nice properties have views of the Sierra. There are a couple of gated communities and a Cameron Pk. Country Club with homes but mostly regular homes on larger lots with plenty of space to have a garden.

Cameron Park Lake has a few community events during the year and the local 4H is very active supported by a thriving home schooling community. Occasionally this area will be referred to as Shingle Springs but that’s located south of Hwy 50 and is much more rural with larger ranches.