Cottonwood Canyon Hills is located in Riverside County at the eastern boundary of Lake Elsinore, CA 92532. Tuscany Hills is also part of Lake Elsinore and is north of us. Canyon Lake CA 92587 is also north of us. Pardee Homes is the master property developer for our community of about 2000 homes with an expected total of about 3400 homes.

Lake Elsinore is the largest freshwater lake in Southern California with 3000 surface acres and 14 miles of shoreline. The Lake level is about 1243 ft in elevation. We are about 73 miles from Los Angeles, 74 miles from San Diego, 268 miles from Las Vegas, 329 miles from Phoenix. Snow sking is available in the mountains at Big Bear, 81 miles. Ocean beaches are at Dana Point, 44 miles away. Other beach cities are Newport Beach, Balboa, Laguna Beach, and Oceanside. We are 25 miles from the heart of wine country in Temecula. Our average annual temperature is 78.5 degrees. During the summer it is quite comfortable to open the windows and sit outside on the patio and enjoy the evening breeze.

Our city motto is Dream Extreme. We have sky diving at the Skylark Airport, at Diamond Stadium we host the Storm, a class A California League baseball team. We have a local dirt bike track, the McVicker Skate Park, and boating and fishing on Lake Elsinore.

The Ortega Mountains, part of the Cleveland National Forest, separate us from Orange County and the coastal communities. To the east we have the mountain range that incluces Mt San Jacinto, which has a ski tram, that separates us from the desert communities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert. We have many local Indian Gambling Casinos at Pachanga, Soboba, and Moronga.

Out here it is so much better than living in a congested city. We have wild things that visit us in the night. Coyotes, Mountain Lions, Rabbits, Squirrels, Possums, Rodents, Rattle Snakes (caught 4 in my yard alone), Owls, Road Runners, Hawks, Egrets, Hummingbirds, Finches, and lots of birds. My wife has too many bird feeders and we have several fountains. Fruit trees seem to be for the critters.