San Diego county real estate
City: Descanso


Descanso is a Spanish word meaning rest, repose or tranquility. As applied to a particular area, it means a place of rest. Mercifully still a small community, Descanso lies in the foothills of the Cuyamaca Range at an elevation of 3,450 feet, approximately 40 miles east of San Diego, California.

It is an area of great and virtually unspoiled natural beauty with an extensive variety of tree, shrubs, plants and an impressive and colorful display of hundreds of species of wild flowers. Once the brown bear roamed the hillsides and mountain lions were plentiful, but only a few lions remain in the mountains and are seldom seen.

Mule deer, bob-cat, coyote, bob-tail rabbit, ground squirrels, raccoon, striped skunk, opossum and other rodents including the pesky gopher, still make their home in the outlying districts.*