Garden Valley!
Community Built through the spirit of its residents, El Dorado County, CA

Garden Valley is a scenic, rural community with a number of horse aficionados,  entrepreneurs, educators, and music lovers with great community spirit. Atually, Garden Valley is an ideal horse community as it is centrally located  (15-30 min) to ALL the area public trail systems and there are many: Cronin Ranch (in Pilot Hill), Meadowbrook (Garden Valley) Dru Barner & Balderson (Georgetown)Olmstead Loop & Tevis Cup (Cool).  Town has great horse properties. Located just above Coloma, on scenic Hwy 49, and  about 22 minutes from Hwy 50 and 30 minutes to Hwy 80,  it was founded in 1852. An old stone store and the Grange Hall remain from the early days and are adjacent to Rose's Cafe (a special place to eat  home-cooked lunches in Garden Valley). In years past the community was known for its Gold and the famous Black Oak Mine but also for garden vegetables sold to the miners ( how it got its name).  About 3,500 residents call it home here, many of whom or either semi-retired, telecommute or  who travel down the hill into Sacramento, Auburn, or Placerville to real jobs. With an elevation just below the snow line at 1,900 feet elevation, it is filled with lots of trees, shrubs, pastures, streams, creeks, and trails. Its residents also very much like to socialize, hike, ride, and enjoy good music, the outdoors, and community events. To be sure, it is a great place to live, raise children, or retire.  Americana is always the theme for  its July 4th Parade and other home town activities as set out on this web site.
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Pony on up for your Coffee in Garden Valley. Lot's going on here. Starting late June, there is  People's Mountain Market every SAT  at 9-12 noon thru Oct. Lots of Fresh Produce, flowers, gifts, food and fun.