Auburn Lake Trails California Map

About Auburn Lake Trails, California

Auburn Lake Trails is a locality in El Dorado County, California, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,388. The population density is 102.8 people per km². Auburn Lake Trails is located at 38.8862°N, 120.9797°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 95614.

Auburn Lake Trails reveals itself as a landscape of sun-drenched oak savanna where the earth shifts in color from vibrant spring green to a brittle, parchment gold as the summer heat settles over the terrain. It lies 6.8 miles east of Auburn, CA (from Auburn, CA: bearing 80°T), and is situated 7.1 miles east of North Auburn. Penobscot Creek carves a path through the nearby earth, its presence felt in the cool, damp air that lingers in the low-lying shadows of Buckeye Canyon. The land rises and falls in rhythmic swells, a rugged expanse that feels distant from the bustle of the world, defined by the sturdy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada looming faint and blue against the eastern horizon. Only a mile away, the Auburn State Recreation Area invites the wind to carry the scent of dry grass and pine resin across the property, while the waters of North Fork Lake shimmer three miles distant, reflecting the vast, cloudless sky.

History here is written in the quiet endurance of the soil, once shaped by the industry of those who sought fortune in the hills long before the current residential quietude took hold. Economic life in Auburn Lake Trails remains tethered to the slow, deliberate pace of the interior, where the modern rhythm of work is punctuated by the seasonal migration of light across the foothills. Travelers searching for the wilder reach of the landscape might venture seventeen miles to the Blodgett Experimental Forest or test their resolve on the Monroe Ridge Trail, eight miles out, where the path climbs toward the high, thin air. For those inclined toward the dramatic, the water at Codfish Falls drops six miles away in a display of persistent gravity, a reminder that the land is as much defined by its hidden, rushing veins as it is by the heat that bleaches the hills.

About This Auburn Lake Trails Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Auburn Lake Trails, California. Coordinates: 38.886238, -120.979699. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Auburn Lake Trails includes the ZIP code (95614), telephone area code (530), county seat of El Dorado County (Placerville), and school district assignment (Black Oak Mine Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.