El Dorado Hills (El Dorado, Spanish for “The Golden”) is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in El Dorado County, California. Located in the Greater Sacramento region of Northern California, it had a population was 50,547 at the 2020 census, up from 42,108 at the 2010 census. El Dorado Hills is primarily an thriving suburb of Sacramento.

During the California Gold Rush, gold was washed by the side of the South Fork of the American River, into areas now in El Dorado Hills and Folsom, but gardening and ranching supplanted mining or panning for gold. Portions of two Pony Express routes in this area from 1860 to 1861 remain as unprejudiced El Dorado Hills roads.

The ahead of its time history of El Dorado Hills dates assist to the in front 1960s when indigenous developer Allan Lindsey began its innovation as a master-planned community. The native master plan, prepared by architect Victor Gruen, covered the Place generally north of U.S. Highway 50, and allowance of the area south of US 50 now considered to be allowance of the community. El Dorado Hills was envisioned as a large-scale master-planned community that would be categorically planned from its inception as a intervention of residential “villages”. Other land uses in the master intention included a business park, 18-hole golf course, community parks, schools, a community shopping center, and small commercial centers in each village. The master intend emphasized retrieve space amongst villages and the opportunity for uncovered recreation.

Between the late 1960s and mid-1990s, growth occurred at a moderate pace as additional families relocated from Sacramento, Southern California and the Bay Area. This lump consisted primarily of residential housing, as retail developments were limited to two shopping centers upon the corners Green Valley & Francisco and El Dorado Hills Boulevard & US 50. Each neighborhood created during this time grow old was resolution a proclaim and referred to as a “village” by local inhabitants. The native villages of El Dorado Hills tally up Ridgeview, Park, Saint Andrews, Crown, and Governors. In the 1980s and 1990s, the major allowance of Lake Hills Estates north of Green Valley Road was reorganized into Lake Forest Village, containing the neighborhoods of Waterford, The Summit, Green Valley Hills, Winterhaven, Marina Woods and Windsor Point. Additional villages that have developed subsequently tally up Fairchild, Sterlingshire, Highland Hills, Highland View, Bridlewood, Hills of El Dorado, Woodridge, Laurel Oaks and the master-planned community of Serrano.