Some communities come together via connected histories, common access or linked locales. With the villages of Alta, Dutch Flat and Gold Run, it’s all of the above.

Planning to incorporate a scenic ride on your next trip to Colfax? Try taking Placer Hills Road. It’s a slim, snaky alternate route with plenty of rural scenery.

With fast-growing cities surging in south Placer County, it would be easy to believe the entire county is developing at warp speed.

Although the tines of the American River once divided Sacramento and Placer counties, their pasts entwine in the region’s common history.

Thousands of travelers along Interstate 80 zip past the statue of Claude Chana without knowing the significance of the concrete prospector that is forever panning for gold at the edge of Old Town A

Today, Clipper Gap is a rural community with little more than a gas station-minimart and vintage school house to identify its locale. But at one time, it was a major industrial hub.

Roseville is growing in all directions, but its west side is where many of its new residential tracts are mingling with multifaceted recreational facilities.

One of the things that make the foothills unique is how a district can hold so many diverse types of housing daesigns and backdrops.

In the region’s early days, the California Central Railroad connected Placer and Sacramento counties.

Before modern highways dictated traffic patterns, furrowed wagon trails, rugged river crossings and trampled footpaths brought Placer and Nevada county neighbors together.

Wise Road is more than a country road linking Ophir to Lincoln; it’s also a connection to Placer County’s earliest waterways.

If the southeast side of Newcastle seems to have a bucolic flavor, it comes by it naturally: The region once was king of Placer County’s agricultural reign.

With its own grocery store, post office, education facilities, branch library, party center and professional offices, Meadow Vista seems like a full-fledged city.

Foothills residents don’t have to travel far to find recreation venues. But at the Alta Sierra subdivision, country club living can be found right in their own back yards.

Placer County is known for its rustic character and rural beauty, especially in its southwestern basin.