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Sun City, Menifee — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sun City, opened in 1962, was Del Webb's second retirement community and is now a neighbourhood of Menifee, California.
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Where to stay in Sun City
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Sun City keeps its beds on the freeway edge, along Encanto Drive at the McCall Boulevard exit of Interstate 215. Inside the community the streets are residential, laid out for people who live here rather than for visitors, so the roadside motels on the frontage road do the work. Menifee holds the alternative. Its newer centre at Newport Road, a few minutes south, carries the modern chain hotels, while Perris is the nearest separate town north on the same freeway.
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Sun City
The roadside motels on Encanto Drive stand at the McCall Boulevard interchange, a minute from the shops and the Sun City Civic Association campus. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Sun Citythe newest rooms and the widest choice in the cityMenifee Town Center
Menifee put its modern hotels beside Newport Road, a few minutes south of Sun City on Interstate 215.Find hotels in Menifee Town Centerdrivers coming down Interstate 215 from the northPerris
Perris is the next town up the freeway and keeps lodging of its own, close enough for a short run back to Sun City.Find hotels in PerrisHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
About Sun City
What are the main landmarks in Sun City?
Sun City centres on the corner of Bradley Road and Cherry Hills Boulevard, where Del Webb opened the community's first shopping centre in July 1962. The Sun City Civic Association campus stands nearby at 26850 Sun City Boulevard, its gates enclosing Webb Hall, an outdoor Greek theatre, two pools, lawn bowling greens, and indoor shuffleboard courts. The Sun City Library sits at 26982 Cherry Hills Boulevard.
St. Vincent Ferrer is the Catholic parish on Murrieta Road. It has served the community since 1966. The Kay Ceniceros Senior Center runs the city's senior programmes from Evans Road.
What is the history of Sun City?
Sun City was planned in 1960 as Del Webb's second retirement community, after the one he had opened in Arizona. Grading began in December 1961 on ranch land he had bought from farmers in the Menifee Valley, and the place opened that June with 272 homes sold in three days. Golf followed the houses.
The Cherry Hills Golf Course opened in 1963, and the North Golf Course on McCall Boulevard in 1975, the year after Webb died. Sun City stayed an unincorporated census place for the rest of the century. That ended on October 1, 2008, when it joined Quail Valley and the surrounding Menifee Valley communities to form the city of Menifee.
Where is Sun City?
Sun City lies along Interstate 215 in Menifee, just south of the city of Perris, in the Perris Valley.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Sun City?
Sun City: a budget stop right at the freeway exit. Menifee Town Center: the newest rooms and the widest choice in the city. Perris: drivers coming down Interstate 215 from the north.
Updated October 2026