7071 Churn Creek Rd, Redding, CA 96002

Some properties get built. This one got grown. For decades the same family has run cattle on this 1.3-acre piece of Churn Creek Bottom, and you can read the years in the ground: cross-fencing worn smooth by generations of animals, corrals that still hold, and a fig tree in the backyard that has quietly become one of the largest anyone around here has seen. Pear, apricot, and walnut trees fill in the rest of the orchard, all of it rooted in the deep loam that made this bottomland famous. The real inheritance, though, runs along the property line. The Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District canal borders the land, and with ACID water available through the on-site headgate, you open a gate in April and let Sacramento River water spread across the pasture until October. No pump, no well draw, no summer worrying about brown grass. The 2026 application is already active. For anyone who has priced hay in August, that canal is worth more than any kitchen remodel. The 1948 ranch-style home sits single-story in the middle of it all, three bedrooms and a bath and a half under a metal roof, on its own private well. It has the good bones and the honest proportions of its era, and it's ready for the next owner to make it theirs. Two workshops and a brand-new shed handle everything the house doesn't: feed, tack, tools, projects, and whatever else a place like this asks you to accumulate. What makes it work is that it's country without being far. Churn Creek Bottom sits in the quiet stretch between Redding and Anderson, minutes from Interstate 5, downtown Redding, the Sacramento River, feed stores, grocery, and medical services. Turtle Bay and the Sundial Bridge, Anderson River Park, Shasta Lake, Whiskeytown, and Lassen are all easy day trips. You get the pasture and the fig tree and the sound of the water in the canal, and you still get to town before the coffee cools. Properties like this rarely change hands in Churn Creek Bottom. This one is doing so for the first time in a generation. Property details: single-story 1948 ranch-style home, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, 1,470 square feet, 1.3 acres, fully fenced and cross-fenced, Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) irrigation water available, on-site headgate, flood-irrigated pasture, April-to-October irrigation season, 2026 application active with future service by annual application, animal pens, corrals, separate pastures, two workshops, new storage shed, metal roof, private well, mature fig tree, pear, apricot, and walnut trees, Churn Creek Bottom loam soil. Suited to cattle, horses, goats, sheep, poultry, or 4-H and FFA projects. Ideal for buyers searching for horse property or cattle property near Redding CA, livestock acreage in Shasta County, a hobby farm or small homestead with irrigation water, or rural acreage close to town and Interstate 5. Churn Creek Bottom, Redding, CA 96002.