Norco — Norco Map Poster & Print

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Norco Map Poster & Print

Norco sits in western Riverside County, California, and calls itself Horsetown USA. Its zoning keeps large lots on which horses are kept, and many streets have riding trails running beside them. From above, this shows as a looser grid than the neighbouring suburbs, with generous parcels, paddocks and fewer dense cul-de-sacs. The name comes from the North Corona Land Company, which developed the area in the early twentieth century.

The Santa Ana River curves along the western and southern side of the city, a broad, mostly dry channel lined with open land. To the east the Norco Hills rise over the street pattern. Lake Norconian lies in the northern part of the city, beside the grounds of the former Lake Norconian Club resort, which later became a naval site and is now home to a Naval Surface Warfare Center division.

A Norco map poster traces the balance between suburb and countryside: the long straight avenues, the trail corridors, the riverbed and the contours of the hills. In black and white the map shows how much open space the city has kept, something that is easy to miss from the freeway but obvious from above.