Buying at Firestone Ridge (Camas, WA): What to Know Before You Reserve a Lot

Firestone Ridge is a 36-lot custom-home community on the south slope of Prune Hill in Camas, built by Cascade West Development, a Ridgefield company that has been putting up homes in Clark County since 1990. The homes on NW Goodwin Street run from about 3,250 to just under 5,000 square feet, and the three that are priced right now sit between $1.59 million and $2.1 million. Roughly half the lots have already sold and closed. What is left is a mix of bare lots, a few spec homes at different stages, and one reserved.

That last part matters more than the brochure suggests. Firestone Ridge is not a production community where you pick a plan from a rack and the price is on the sign. It is a custom build on a lot you reserve, priced "based on your customized floor plan and lot location," with the lot price never published. The buying decision here is really three decisions: which lot, which plan, and how much of the finish budget you set before the emotional part starts. This guide is about all three.

Community overview

Builder: Cascade West Development (Ridgefield, WA; founded 1990; WA license CASCAWD092NE) Location: 1576–1751 NW Goodwin St, Camas, WA 98607, on Prune Hill, about four-tenths of a mile from Prune Hill Elementary Status: Now selling. As of September 2026 the builder's own lot map shows 17 lots sold, 1 reserved, 1 under construction, 3 homes priced or proposed, and 13 bare lots available. Total homesites: 36 Lot sizes: 6,000–9,000 sq ft (individual lot pages show 5,901 to 9,001) Home sizes: 3,256–4,978 sq ft in the homes currently listed; sold homes ranged from about 3,180 to 3,910 Pricing: Homes currently listed at $1,588,900 (Lot 5), $1,592,900 (Lot 17), $1,864,900 (Lot 23) and $2,099,900 (Lot 30). Bare-lot pricing is not published; the builder quotes it with your plan. HOA: About $114 per month, covering common areas, front-yard landscaping and management, plus a $450 fee noted on a current listing School district: Camas School District — Prune Hill Elementary, Skyridge Middle, Camas High

(Lot status and pricing reflect the builder's site as of September 3, 2026, and change as homes reserve and close. Contact The Tartan Team for current availability.)

What makes Firestone Ridge worth considering

Prune Hill is the part of Camas that most people picture when they picture Camas: a basalt hill with south-facing slopes, big trees, older custom homes on large lots, and the elementary school that families ask about by name. Firestone Ridge sits on the south side of it, on NW Goodwin Street, which is why the builder can advertise southern-exposure lots and, on at least one home (Lot 22), Columbia River views from the kitchen. The site is about three miles west of downtown Camas and the builder puts downtown Vancouver, PDX and the freeway all within about ten minutes. Prune Hill Sports Park, with its Little League fields, basketball and soccer, is next to the elementary school.

The second thing worth knowing is what "custom" means here, because it is more real than in most communities that use the word. Cascade West uses original Mascord floor plans and will modify them, and it does not sell finish packages. Its own words: "we don't use tiered packages, but allow you to create your own personalized allowances instead." You pick a lot, sit for a design consultation, get a cost built from the plan and the lot, and then make selections by visiting the actual vendors and suppliers rather than a design center. For a buyer who knows what they want and wants to control the budget line by line, that is a better structure than a curated showroom. For a buyer who wants the decisions made for them, it is more work.

The base specification is also strong for the county. Fully landscaped front and back yards with sprinklers, fully fenced back yards with cedar top-caps, exposed-aggregate driveways, ten-foot ceilings on the main level, mud-set tile primary showers, quartz or granite slab counters, a gas fireplace with tile surround and custom mantel, whole-home air conditioning, KitchenAid appliances, Kohler and Moen fixtures, Milgard windows with a lifetime guarantee, and architectural roofing with a limited lifetime warranty. Several of the sold homes added James Hardie fiber-cement siding and wood-wrapped windows. The builder also says plywood, never particleboard, which is the kind of thing you should ask them to point at during framing.

The builder's track record is long. Cascade West has built somewhere north of 1,300 custom homes, has been a Parade of Homes regular since 2013, and its 2019 Parade home at Dawson's Ridge in Camas swept thirteen awards including People's Choice and Industry Best of Show. Its 2024 Parade entry won Best of Show. That is a company that knows how to finish a house.

Floor plans and pricing overview

Because plans are customized, the honest way to describe pricing is by the homes that exist today.

Currently listed

• Lot 5, 1739 NW Goodwin St: $1,588,900. 3,519 sq ft, 4 bed / 3 bath, 3-car garage, two stories. A spec home with a vaulted primary, electric fireplace and an upstairs rec room.
• Lot 17: $1,592,900. 3,256 sq ft, 4 bed / 3.5 bath, 3-car garage, two stories, with a den, bonus room, vaulted primary and covered outdoor living. The MLS record for this address shows it listed in August 2024 at $1,542,900 and raised four times since, most recently to $1,592,900 in January 2026, and currently pending. The builder's own map shows the lot as reserved on one page and available on another. Ask which is true before you fall for it.
• Lot 23, 1600 NW Goodwin St: $1,864,900. 4,291 sq ft, 5 bed / 4.5 bath, 3-car garage, two primary suites on the main level, James Hardie siding, balconies. Under construction.
• Lot 30: $2,099,900. 4,978 sq ft, 4 bed / 3.5 bath, 3-car garage, three levels, 12-foot great-room ceilings and a lower-level suite the builder describes as ADU-style for multigenerational living.
• Lot 4, 1751 NW Goodwin St: contact for price. 3,614 sq ft, 4 bed / 3 bath, 3-car garage.

Bare lots

Thirteen lots are listed as available (1, 2, 3, 16, 19, 20, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32), most in the 6,000 to 6,800 square foot range. No lot is priced on the site. The only public lot number we found is a 2024 recorded transfer of the 1597 NW Goodwin St lot at $328,000, which is one data point and should be treated as one data point.

What the closed sales say

Two closed prices are public. 1693 NW Goodwin St (3,183 sq ft, built 2023) sold in October 2024 for $1,464,900. 1719 NW Goodwin St (Lot 6, 3,435 sq ft) listed at $1,572,900 and sold for $1,530,000. Both closed roughly $40,000 to $45,000 under the asking price. Meanwhile the one listing that has sat the longest has been raised four times. Those two facts together are the most useful thing on this page: the list price at Firestone Ridge is a starting point, not a floor, and the builder has shown it will move on a finished home.

What to watch out for

Cascade West is a capable builder with a good reputation and a real process. None of what follows is a reason not to build here. It is the list of places where a buyer's own representation earns its keep.

The lot is the first negotiation

At a production community the lot premium is a line on a sheet. Here the lot price is folded into the cost that comes back from the design consultation, alongside the plan and your allowances. That makes it easy to lose track of what the lot itself is costing you relative to the one two doors down. Southern exposure, the view corridor toward the river, and privacy from the homes below are the things that separate a 6,000 square foot lot on the top row from one on the bottom row, and the difference should be a number you can see. Ask for the lot price on its own, in writing, before the plan is attached to it.

Allowances are the design center

There is no showroom at Firestone Ridge, which is genuinely good news. But allowances have their own failure mode. The cost that comes back from the builder is built on allowance figures for cabinets, counters, tile, lighting, plumbing and flooring. If those figures are set low, the price looks great and every selection you make at the vendor comes in "over allowance." If they are set realistically, the price looks higher and the surprises stop. The builder will set them; your job is to know what a realistic number is for the finish level you actually want before you sign, not after your third supplier visit. The builder's founder once refunded a client $20,000 when the actual costs came in under the estimate, which tells you the company keeps honest books. It does not tell you what your allowances should be.

The financing has two paths, and they are not the same

Cascade West offers two ways to buy. In the first, the builder owns the lot and builds, and you close on the finished home with an ordinary mortgage at whatever down payment you qualify for. In the second, with 20 percent or more down, you take a one-step construction loan through the builder's preferred lender at HomeStreet Bank: one close, one appraisal before construction, a rate locked before work starts, up to a year to build, and a float-down that "may be available." The second path can be cheaper and gives you more control. It also puts the construction risk, and the interest during construction, on your side of the ledger, and it ties you to one lender's terms. This is the calculation we run before anyone signs anything: which path, with which lender, over the years you will actually hold the loan. The builder incentive calculator is the starting point.

Slopes, geology and what the seller cannot tell you

Prune Hill is an extinct volcanic vent in the Boring Lava Field. That is why the views are good and why the lots are not flat. The city's critical-areas code governs steep slopes, Lot 30 is a three-level home, and we found no site-specific geotechnical report published for the plat. That does not mean one does not exist; it means you should ask for it, read it, and have your inspector read it too. Drainage on a south-facing basalt slope is a long-term question, not a closing-day one.

The HOA you cannot read yet

Dues are about $114 a month plus a $450 fee, and they cover front-yard mowing. What they do not tell you is the rest: exterior color approval, fence rules, RV and boat parking, rental restrictions. One reviewer of a past Cascade West home describes a paint-color conflict with an HOA after closing. The CC&Rs for Firestone Ridge are recorded with the Clark County Auditor and are not on the builder's site. Get them before you reserve, not after.

The one-year warranty is a calendar

Cascade West provides a one-year workmanship warranty, with two-year systems and ten-year structural coverage through 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty on qualifying homes, and it has a warranty coordinator on staff. That is a solid package. It is also a package with dates on it. Pre-drywall, pre-closing and eleven-month inspections by a licensed inspector are how you use it. We schedule them and walk them with you.

Why bring your own representation

The builder's sales team is Jason Stenersen and Ron Wagner, who have been selling and designing for Cascade West since 2009, and a listing agent who works with the company. They are good at their jobs, and their job is to sell Cascade West homes on Cascade West's terms. In nearly all cases the builder covers the buyer's agent's fee. What you get for it is someone whose only obligation is to you: the lot price on its own line, allowances that match the house you want, the financing math done before the lock, the geotech and the CC&Rs read before the reservation. Everything we find goes in writing before you sign — here's how we work.

Firestone Ridge or Collins Crest?

Cascade West is also building Collins Crest, seven single-level homes on flat lots of about 13,000 square feet on NW 16th Avenue, a mile and a half away on the same hill, priced from $1,847,900 to $1,879,900 for the three homes listed. If you are downsizing and want no stairs, a bigger flat yard and room for a pool, Collins Crest is the better fit and the comparison is worth the drive. If you want the view and the two-story plan, it is Firestone Ridge. Same builder, same process, same allowance structure, so everything above applies to both.

Your options with The Tartan Team

Firestone Ridge rewards a buyer who arrives with a plan. We bring written analysis and construction-trained judgment to every new-construction purchase: lot and plan pricing broken out, allowance review, contract review, the financing comparison, and inspection oversight, with Dave's background as a master electrician and carpenter behind all of it.

And before you commit to anything, you will have a written Engagement Proposal in hand, exact scope and exact fee, so the decision is fully informed.

Also considering other Camas communities? See our guides to Lacamas Hills (Toll Brothers, lake views, from the low $800s), The Glades — SHAWOOD (from $1.2M) and The Enclave at Camas Meadows (Garrette Homes, from $1.37M), or the full Camas new-construction page.