Philosophy and Vision

The Pinnacle tight-knit community represents understated, elegant, and holistic living at its finest, starting from its entrance quietly tucked in the mountainside of Santa Fe Valley.

Drive across the threshold pavers past the guardhouse, where the concierge staff and security know you and treat you like family, and enter one of the most exclusive communities in all San Diego. Cruise past majestic old-growth olive trees, carefully curated coffee plants and fruit trees, and immerse yourself in the countryside, where coastal sage scrub bushes, California gnatcatcher birds, falcons and hawks, fresh mountain air, and nature blend peacefully with your conveniently remote estate home.

Pinnacle homes represent some of the finest, timeless, and most innovative concepts in design. We incorporate careful thought and fung-shui into all home sites, maximizing sight lines and views, innovative selection of building materials that represent beauty, longevity, and please the senses, carefully contemplated cutting edge home features that surprise and delight, all tied together in a fully customized package that makes building your dream home an easy reality.

Our contemporary, modern single level estates will feature 6,000 sf.- 15,000 sf. homes with 1,200 sf. ADUs, four to eight-car garages, resort style pools and expansive veranda patios with panoramic views of Del Sur Valley, Black Mountain, and beyond. Customize your master suite with enormous closet rooms, create fabulous game and entertainment retreat, a stunning home library, a speakeasy nook, and much more. Blending nature with contemporary finishes, form and function seamlessly blends artistic design with cosy and comfortable, auspicious feng-shui. Naturally lending itself to luxurious indoor-outdoor California living.

Some of the leading concepts that make a Pinnacle home an appreciating asset and quality legacy heirloom to treat yourself include: exceptional large land and space to stretch out, single-story living, state of the art efficiency in heating and cooling with incorporated solar, residential batteries, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging, fire resiliency with passive and active defense technologies, water conservation with integrated water capture, and total home control at the touch of your phone app. At the same time, be true to yourself and your life by incorporating ideas and conveniences that you value. Nurture your wine collection in a custom, bespoke wine cavern. Actively engage your children’s love of learning with a configurable play room. Entertain guests with soirees that welcome the important people in your life. Pinnacle homebuilders can offer the gamut, from 6,000-15,000 sq ft homes, oversized 4-10 car garages and caverns, zero-edge pools and hot and cold plunge tubs, junior and senior accessory dwelling units up to 1200 sq ft, separated barns that can be purposed for fitness and dance studios, artist sanctuaries, Zen gardens, spa baths, personalized fitness space, indoor-outdoor covered verandas, reconfiguration of spaces as the family grows, and much more.

Let your imagination roam and let Pinnacle developers help you realize your vision.

Community and Nature

The Pinnacle community is built into the valley and hillside of Santa Fe Valley and adjacent to substantial acres of Open Space Preserve. This Open Space is part and integral to the vision of the County of San Diego, whereby belts of dedicated greenery allow native species of plants and animals to live, migrate, and flourish without human disturbance. These Open Space lands are part of the Del Dios-Lake Hodges corridor and are set aside for the viewing enjoyment of all, and Pinnacle is proud to work with San Diego County, both California and Federal Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the San Diego Foundation to help maintain this vision. As part of every home sale, a one-time fee is required that helps fund our Open Space Endowment in perpetuity and provides our environmental partner Endangered Habitats Conservancy with the resources to carefully nurture, study, and safeguard these precious lands. Pinnacle considers it a deep privilege to work with such dedicated and vital San Diego groups.

History and legacy of this land

In the early 1900s, the region currently served by the Olivenhain Municipal Water District (OMWD) was inhabited by three distinct Native American cultures: the San Dieguito, La Jollan, and Diegueño tribes, each existing during different periods.

During the early 1800s, the land that now encompasses Olivenhain was part of Mexico's territory. In 1842, Rancho Los Encinitos was granted by the Mexican government to Andreas Ybarra, who constructed an adobe house. The remnants of this structure still stand near Stagecoach Park in Carlsbad.

The settlement of Olivenhain began in 1884 on a parcel known as Rancho Las Encinitas, with 25 families establishing the community. This group of 67 German settlers, whose descendants include some present-day residents, gave rise to the community that OMWD is named after. "Olivenhain," of German origin, translates to "olive grove" and is pronounced Oh-Lee-Ven-Hine.

During the 1950s, a decline in farming activity and the introduction of imported water to Southern California gradually transformed the Olivenhain area into a residential community.

During the building of the Pinnacle community, small rock chips and fragments, likely from arrowheads, of native american activity were found, cataloged, and donated to the Museum of Man in Balboa Park, San Diego. We honor this land and nature with our interpretive walking trail, sitting benches, and plaque to the previous people that lived and settled here. Pinnacle is proud to invite neighboring schools to bring their students for walking fieldtrips.