Apple Valley is the High Desert's town of big lots and open sky. Spread across the east side of the Mojave River from Victorville, it grew up as a ranching and resort community — Roy Rogers and Dale Evans made their home here, and the main road through town still carries her name — and it has kept that ranch-country character even as it has grown into one of the largest communities in the Victor Valley.

Living here

The draw is space. Half-acre and larger parcels are the norm across much of town, which means room for horses, workshops, RVs, a pool, or simply a yard with nothing but desert and mountains beyond it. Neighborhoods run from the established custom-home streets around Desert Knolls and the Golf Course to the newer tracts near Bear Valley Road, with the Jess Ranch active-adult community and its lakes on the south side of town.

Bear Valley Road is the commercial spine — shopping, dining, medical, and the everyday errands are along it — and Highway 18 connects the town west to the I-15 corridor and east toward Lucerne Valley and the mountains. Town Hall on Dale Evans Parkway anchors the civic center, with the Apple Valley Unified School District serving families across town.

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