Tree Removal in Cameron Park

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Cameron Park calls are welcome here, from the lake to the airpark to the back roads. Phone (530) 479-3598 and a tree pro who works the area can come have a look.

Same ZIP as Shingle Springs, 95682, so you're right next door to home base.

Brush country, plain and simple

Wikipedia puts Cameron Park in an interior chaparral zone. Brush country, sitting just east of the big Central Valley. Manzanita and redbud are everywhere. Trees, where you find them, run to gray pine and oak, plus a few ponderosa groves on the higher ground.

Brush growing up under pines is a fire ladder. It's the first thing a clearing job goes after.

Elevation here runs about 1,200 to 1,450 feet. That keeps it out of the snow zone. Your trouble is long hot summers and dry fuel, not snow piling on limbs.

Cameron Park has its own clearing rules

This next bit catches folks off guard. Fire service in town comes from the Cameron Park Community Services District. The CSD wrote its own rule for weeds and rubbish, Ordinance No. 2025.05.21. Every parcel in the district falls under it, house or no house.

The CSD's guide uses zones:

• Zone 0, the first 5 feet. They suggest gravel, pavers or concrete instead of bark mulch. They note this zone isn't official yet but is highly recommended.
• Zone 1, from the house to 30 feet. Pull out dead plants, weeds and needles. Keep limbs 10 feet back from the chimney.
• Zone 2, 30 to 100 feet. Grass kept to 4 inches. Shrubs and trees spaced apart, side to side and up and down.

Propane tanks and sheds need 10 feet of bare ground, then another 10 feet with nothing that burns.

Own an empty lot here?

The CSD has a Vacant Lot Program. Owners of empty lots have to keep them cleared all the time, not just once. The district inspects those lots once a year, around May, and mails a notice to every vacant lot owner first.

So if you own a lot in Cameron Park and live somewhere else, don't wait for the letter. Get the brush and dead trees handled in early spring. See land and brush clearing for what that kind of job runs.

A town that grew from one big ranch

Back in the 1950s Larry Cameron bought up 5,000 acres of foothill ground. Ranching came first. Then houses went in, along with parks, a lake, a golf course and a little airport. Bit by bit the land was carved into every kind of parcel.

So the jobs here run from one yard tree to a few acres of brush.

The airpark is its own deal. Homes there have hangars and taxi right onto a 4,051-foot runway. Trees near a taxiway or runway approach bring their own worries, so mention it when you call.

What it might cost

Small jobs in town, like one gray pine near the house, often land in This Old House's range of $450 to $1,200 for a tree 30 to 60 feet tall. A brush clearing job runs $657 to $2,309 by Thumbtack's national numbers.

The pro gives you the real number after walking it.

Before the visit

• Know if you're in the CSD or just outside it. The rules differ.
• Have any CSD or county notice handy.
• Move cars and the boat trailer out from under the tree.
• Say if the tree is near the airpark taxiways.

More places

Neighbors worth a look: Rescue and El Dorado Hills. Home base: tree removal in Shingle Springs. Clearing before fire season? Read defensible space clearing, or see all the places we cover.