Gold River CA Home to Rowing Teams at CSUS
October 20th, 2008 categories: American River, Gold River, Outdoor Activities, Rancho Cordova, Water Sports
The Ultimate Team Sport
Gold River is an appropriate name for this town along the Amerian River just south of Folsom. Home to the CSUS outdoor campus for water sports this microcosm of activity hosts lots of fun in a very small area. Lessons abound for sailing, rowing, & scuba diving and you can’t beat the excitement of Capital Crew during competition.
Known for it’s structured environment (read Homeowners Assoc.) Gold River has many villages with a variety of home sizes available all within 5 min of the freeway and less than 30 min from Sacramento. Well manicured lawns and picture perfect parks offer lots of walking trails and bike paths close to the river and the Gold River racket club with tennis (both indoor and out) and all the usual workout equipment.
Rancho Cordova is the adjacent community that Gold River seceded from but shares the same zip code and has a mixture of young families and retired military. This community began as an extension of Mather Air Field, which was decommissioned in the early 1990′s when the government decided to retire a number of Air Force bases in California. Aerojet is the primary generator of jobs and has been doing their part to take responsibility for the environmental cleanup due to some previous damage they caused the water table.
Peppered with small ranch style homes on either side of the freeway, the county is working on renovating shopping centers and community areas that have deteriorated as a result of people moving to the newer suburbs further down the freeway. Now is a great time to find starter homes that are older but well built and offer a great value for the dollar.
This is one of the last towns in the valley before you climb the foothills of the Sierra and offers the opportunity to purchase in Sacramento county at a reasonable price. Rancho Cordova just recently incorporated and is going through a growth period but seems to be doing well and hasn’t experienced any major shifts due to the change in government. There were a number of investor homes that are starting to be picked up by first time buyers which bodes well for the future.
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