Hot Tubs & Swim Spas for San Marcos Shoppers

Why San Marcos Shoppers Visit Our Escondido Showroom

San Marcos sits west of Escondido in San Diego County, on State Route 78, the freeway that links both cities.

We don't have a branch in San Marcos. The showroom that serves you is Escondido, at 499 N. Hale Ave, which is where you can see these running with water in them. Call that store direct on (760) 683-2171.

San Marcos Neighborhoods We Deliver To

San Marcos breaks into four parts that matter for a spa. San Elijo Hills, in the southwest, is the big one. The development company bought 1,921 acres in 1994, the City Council approved the plan in 1997, and the build ran on through the fire station in 2008, MarketWalk and Double Peak Park in 2009, and Double Peak School in 2016. It is post-2000 two-storey housing on engineered hillside pads, and the yard we usually walk into is one flat terrace ending at a retaining wall. Lake San Marcos is not in the city at all. It is unincorporated county, 2,615 housing units at the 2020 census, 76.8 percent owner-occupied, median age 63.3, with compact homes around the lake arms. North City, the 195-acre University District south of SR-78 and north of Barham Drive, is student housing and mixed-use with a 12-storey block under construction. The Creek District, 214 acres along San Marcos Creek south of San Marcos Boulevard and west of Grand Avenue, reads the same. Patios and podium decks, not side gates.

The Homes and Backyards in San Marcos

There is no pre-war San Marcos to speak of. The valley stayed farms and groves until Colorado River water arrived in 1956, the city incorporated in 1963, and by the 2020 census it held 31,724 housing units with 60.9 percent of the occupied ones owner-occupied. Four waves, and we will name the styles as North County convention rather than as anything documented house by house. The 1960s and 1970s central tracts read single-storey California ranch: low-pitched roofs, attached two-car garages, stucco and board, modest floor area. A late-1970s and 1980s layer sits on top of that. The late-1990s and 2000s hillside boom, including the early San Elijo Hills villages, reads two-storey Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival production housing, with concrete tile roofs, arched entries and tandem or three-car garages on the bigger plans. From 2010 the growth is attached and mixed-use. Two storeys is the norm in anything after about 1995, and in those tracts the flat ground behind the house, not the lot line, decides which spa fits.

Why San Marcos Homeowners Choose a Hot Tub or Swim Spa

San Marcos is a young city on old ground. Colorado River water did not reach the valley until 1956, the city incorporated in 1963, and almost everything a spa goes into here was built after that, most after 1995. What people are buying is the evening. The hills ring the valley, a lot of back yards are terraced or on view lots, and winters rarely drop below freezing, which makes a January soak ordinary. The other driver is the walking. Discovery Lake and the climb to Double Peak are a local ritual, and a city sign at the park puts that trail at 2.5 miles to the summit. People come down sore.

Getting a Spa Into a San Marcos Backyard

Grade is the constraint here, not street width. A spa of roughly seven to nine feet square and 600 to 1,300 pounds has to reach a level, load-bearing pad, and much of this city is hillside, terraced or retained. In the post-2000 hillside villages like San Elijo Hills the flat area behind the house often ends at a retaining wall or falls away on a view lot, and where the only route to the rear runs through the house or down steps, a lift becomes likely. We will not promise or rule one out without photographs of the gate, the narrowest point of the route and the rear-yard grade. The older central tracts are usually the easy ones, single storey on flatter ground, with mature planting and old fence posts as the obstacles. Zoning matters too. Read the setbacks off Title 20 or your own parcel's zoning rather than a lookup site, because the Specific Plan areas override them.

Using It Year-Round in San Marcos

There is no month here when a spa goes unused. The Pacific keeps winters rarely below freezing and summers rarely above 100 degrees, May and June bring the coastal overcast people call June gloom, and July through September are the warm stretch. Rain falls November to March, about 13 inches a year citywide but up to 20 in the San Marcos Hills, so the upper neighbourhoods are measurably wetter. Santa Ana winds can come any month and peak in August.

Compare Models In Person

Financing is available through Synchrony for qualified buyers, subject to credit approval. The full lineup is below — every model is at the Escondido showroom or can be brought in.