High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paradise is an incorporated town in Butte County, in the northwest foothills of California`s Central Valley, in the Sierra. The town is considered part of the Chico Metropolitan Area. The population was 26,218 at the 2010 census, down from 26,408 at the 2000 census. Paradise is some 8 miles (13 km) east of Chico and 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Sacramento.