Buying and selling in Meadow Vista

Meadow Vista sits about five miles up Interstate 80 from Auburn, high enough that the oaks give way to pines and the summers run noticeably cooler than the valley floor. It is unincorporated Placer County, wooded, and quiet in a way that the communities further down the hill are not.

For luxury buyers the draw is Winchester Country Club — a gated golf community whose course is one of the last collaborations between Robert Trent Jones Sr. and Robert Trent Jones Jr. Outside the gates, Meadow Vista is acreage and forested parcels, which means the same foothill diligence that applies in Loomis applies here, with wildfire preparedness carrying more weight at elevation.