Bella Vista (Spanish for “Beautiful View”) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Shasta County, California. Bella Vista is a small, rural community roughly 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Redding, and more or less 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Palo Cedro. Its population is 3,641 as of the 2020 census, up from 2,781 from the 2010 census. Historically, Bella Vista was a semi-large lumber town which hosted its own railroad.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an Place of 22.3 square miles (57.9 km), 99.36% of it estate and 0.64% of it water.

Bella Vista was in the proclaim of a well-to-do Lumber town. A lumber flume fed a mill at the present day location of the decline of Meyers Road and Deschutes. The flume was completed by the Shasta Lumber Company in August 1888 following it reached Bella Vista. The lumber flume was a V-shape structure which was elevated to 90’ in culmination and supported by scaffolds. Lumber from friendly Round Mountain was shipping via the flume to the mill at Bella Vista where it would be treated and sent south to the railhead at Anderson CA. Present day Bella Vista was the subside of the lumber flume and the site was originally called, the dump, because it was the dumping lessening of the lumber coming off the lumber flume. The original town site was standard with a general merchandise increase owned by the Shasta Lumber Company, company offices, a planning mill and other buildings. Bella Vista was once a well-to-do community and at its peak, hosted a population of 2,000. Bella Vista’s community consisted of saloons, barber shops and various stores, including gas stations.

Bella Vista similar to hosted the Anderson and Bella Vista Railway which was a 15-mile freight carrier that hauled lumber and extra commodities to the Southern Pacific railhead in Anderson CA. The bottleneck of the operation was the transfer of the lumber from the mill at Bella Vista to the nearest rail connection, which was 10 miles away in Anderson CA and on the muddled side of the Sacramento River. In not quite 1891, work began upon the Anderson & Bella Vista Railroad by the side of the valley of Cow Creek to the Southern Pacific railhead in Anderson. The railroad was single-handedly in the 1930s and torn up snappishly after.