Riversideis a city inRiverside County,California,United States, located in theInland Empiremetropolitan area. It is the county seatof the eponymous county and named for its location beside theSanta Ana River.It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire as well as Riverside County.
Riverside was founded in the early 1870s and is the birthplace of the Californiacitrus industryas well as home of theMission Inn, the largestMission Revival Stylebuilding in the United States.It is also home to theRiverside National Cemetery.
TheUniversity of California, Riverside, is located in the northeastern part of the city. The university also hosts theRiverside Sports Complex. Other attractions in Riverside include theFox Performing Arts Center, Riverside Metropolitan Museum, which houses exhibits and artifacts of local history, theCalifornia Museum of Photography, theCalifornia Citrus State Historic Park, and theParent Washington Navel Orange Tree, the last of the two original navel orange trees in California.
