Granite Bay, California

About Granite Bay

Granite Bay, CA is a small unincorporated community located in northern California.

Granite Bay holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 21.55 square miles.

📰 Granite Bay News Today

• Residents temporarily evacuated due to fire in Granite Bay KCRA · Aug 8
• Granite Bay fire evacuations lifted after several neighborhoods were ordered out CBS News · Aug 8
• Evacuation orders issued for Granite Bay fire FOX40 · Aug 8
• Granite Bay Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Jun 23
• Granite Bay High School (CA) Boys Lacrosse MaxPreps · Aug 13

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Granite Bay Unique

• The only place in America named Granite Bay — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northern California, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Easy reach of Rocklin (5 mi) — commute to the city, live where it's calm.

📍 Neighborhoods in Granite Bay

Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Granite Bay

• Dutch Bros. Coffee — coffee shop (café)
• Hawks — american
• Late Mouse — coffee shop (café)
• Sette Pasta House — italian
• Starbucks — coffee shop (café)
• Vaiano Trattoria — italian
• Asian Blossom Chinese & Vietnamese Seafood Restaurant — seafood
• Granite Bay Chinese Restaurant — chinese
• Jack's Urban Eats
• La Bou

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Granite Bay

• Folsom Lake State Recreation Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Anderson Island Natural Preserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Greyhawk Community Park reviews ★
• Miners Ravine Nature Reserve · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Olympus Park reviews ★
• Proposed Park reviews ★
• Ridgeview EcoLab · Garden reviews ★
• Ronald L. Feist Park reviews ★
• Russ Waltrip Jr. Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

🏫 Schools in Granite Bay

• Granite Bay High
• Greenhills Elementary
• Oakhills Elementary
• Ridgeview Elementary
• Sierra Vista
• Willma Cavitt Junior High

Public schools, U.S. Dept. of Education (NCES) 2023–24 directory.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Granite Bay

🏘️ Nearby Communities