Landscape Construction & Design in Newcastle, CA
Rated 4.9★ by Newcastle homeowners | Licensed - Bonded - Insured | Since 2008.
South Canyon Construction Inc has been building landscapes for the homes in Newcastle since 2008. The main areas we have worked in are Bickford Ranch, the Mt. Vernon corridor, Newcastle Country Estates, and the rural acreage along Indian Hill and Wise Road.
We design and build your landscaping exterior under one license: grading, drainage, retaining walls, paver patios, pools, defensible-space planting, and the lighting that makes it usable after dusk.
One team, one schedule, one number to call when something needs adjusting two years from now.
Rated 4.9 by Newcastle homeowners | Licensed Bonded Insured (CSLB #919620) | Serving Newcastle since 2008
Our Landscaping Solutions in Newcastle
Newcastle lots come with character: granite outcrops, decomposed-granite shoulders, slopes that drop toward Highway 193, mature blue oaks you don’t want to lose, and the kind of summer heat that punishes any irrigation system that wasn’t designed for it.
We build for that – not for a flat suburban backyard. Every service below is something we self-perform with our own crews and equipment, on Newcastle properties, with the permitting, drainage, and slope engineering already accounted for in the bid.
Why Newcastle Homeowners Choose South Canyon Construction Inc
Newcastle isn’t Roseville, and a Newcastle landscape can’t be priced or built like one. Three things separate a project that holds up here from one that doesn’t.
Built for granite, slopes, and fire country
Most Newcastle lots sit on decomposed granite over weathered bedrock – great drainage in some spots, refusal at 18 inches in others.
We core the site before we price the walls, size footings to what the soil actually gives us, and route surface water away from the house and downhill neighbors with French drains, swales, and rip-rap dissipators that won’t wash out in a January storm.
Planting plans are built around Cal Fire defensible-space zones, so the 0-5 ft, 5-30 ft, and 30-100 ft rings work as designed instead of fighting the inspector.
Heritage oaks and mature trees stay
The blue oaks, live oaks, and interior live oaks on your property are worth more than any patio we could pour.
We design around the critical root zone – no trenching inside the dripline, no fill against the trunk, no compaction from staging – and we’ll tell you when a hardscape idea is going to slowly kill a 200-year-old tree before we sign a contract
One team, start to finish - including the permit at Placer County
Design, engineering, grading, hardscape, plant install, irrigation, and lighting come out of one office.
We pull the permits with Placer County (and with the Bickford Ranch CC&R review board when your lot is inside the master plan), coordinate the inspections, and stage the work so you’re not living next to a half-finished project for nine months. Transparent line-item pricing. Scheduled milestones. One phone number if anything needs to change.
Newcastle Areas We Serve
We build throughout the 95658 ZIP and the surrounding Placer foothills:
- Bickford Ranch – new construction, raw graded lots needing complete landscape build-outs
- Mt. Vernon corridor – older estates, mature trees, slope work along Mt. Vernon Road
- Newcastle Country Estates – acreage properties with horse facilities and long driveways
- Indian Hill / Wise Road / Sierra College Boulevard – rural-residential parcels
- Ophir Road / Old State Highway – historic properties near downtown Newcastle
- Surrounding foothill communities – Penryn, Loomis, Auburn, Rocklin, and Lincoln
If you’re inside this footprint, we’ll come out and walk the property at no cost.
Get a Newcastle Design Consultation
Here’s how a Newcastle project starts:
- Call or send the form. Tell us the address, the rough scope, and a budget range you’re comfortable with.
- On-site walk. We come out, look at the slope, the soil, the trees, the views, and the drainage exits. Usually 45-60 minutes.
- Concept and budget. Within a week or two, you get a written scope with line-item pricing, a 3D rendering if the project warrants one, and material-board options.
- Permits and build. We pull what’s needed at Placer County, set a build schedule, and break ground on a date you can put on the calendar.
Phone: (916) 742-3992
Email: Zak.dennisss@gmail.com
Office: 7520 Telegraph Ave, Orangevale, CA 95662
Hours: 8 AM – 7 PM, Monday – Sunday
License: CSLB #919620 (Licensed Bonded Insured)