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Arrowhead Meadows & Stonegate, Portola Valley Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
One-acre streets on the flat heart of the old Ormondale Ranch around Ormondale School, plus Stonegate and Grove Drive, a 1948 subdivision of the Catoctin country estate off Portola Road.
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the story
How Arrowhead Meadows & Stonegate came to be
The flat land around Ormondale School was the working heart of the Ormondale Ranch. The Town's archive says an 1870s silk farm planted 50,000 mulberry trees near today's Shawnee Pass and Iroquois Trail; from 1891 the land became a racehorse ranch with as many as 200 horses, five racehorse barns, ranch houses between today's Iroquois Trail and Shawnee Pass, and a three-quarter-mile track roughly where the school stands. One entrance came off Portola Road through today's Georgia Lane, and the old wagon road dropped from Westridge Drive near Fawn Lane to Sioux Way and along today's Shoshone Place to the headquarters.
After a golf-course plan for the flats went nowhere, the ranch sold this land between 1957 and 1963 in six units, and it became Arrowhead Meadows, with one-acre minimum lots running, in the archive's words, from Meadowood to Fawn on Cervantes. A few traces survive: much-altered ranch houses on Iroquois Trail and Shawnee Pass mark the old headquarters, a spring-fed pond dates from ranch days, and the archive suggests that big eucalyptus or weeping willows often mark where a barn once stood. Small tracts filled the gaps later: Corte Madera Acres on Possum Lane (1959), Adair Lane and Los Charros Lane (1959), Antonio Court (1975), Sausal Vista (1978), Palmer Lane (1980) and Cherokee Court (1985).
Stonegate is older. In 1913 an 81-acre country estate called Catoctin was assembled around what are now Stonegate Road, Grove Drive, Grove Court, Tintern Lane and Georgia Lane. It was rustic but elaborate: stone pillars at the gate, roads with stone gutters and curbs, retaining walls and planters, guest tents on wooden platforms under the oaks, tennis, lawn bowling, croquet and a large pool that doubled as a reservoir, with gardens designed by John McLaren's crew and a windmill-topped well, about 100 feet deep, built in 1917. Water was the estate's long fight, with neighbors along Corte Madera Creek. In 1948 a real estate firm bought it and laid out the modern subdivision, keeping much of the park-like setting; Stonegate Meadows added nine lots at the end of Grove Drive in 1966.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
Arrowhead Meadows is flat and laid out in loops. Cervantes Road is the through street from Westridge Drive east to Fawn Lane; Shawnee Pass loops south past Ormondale School, with Shoshone Place, Iroquois Trail and Arapahoe Court off it, and Navajo Place, Meadowood Drive, Sioux Way, Kiowa Court, Cheyenne Point, Cherokee Way, Cherokee Court and Sierra Lane fill in. The Town zones it R-E/1A/SD-1a; the median lot is about 1.04 acres, the assessor's median year built is 1964, and about three-quarters of the dated houses were built before 1970, most of them one story. Full rebuilds are still rare: only about 9 of the Arrowhead houses show a year built after 2000.
Stonegate's lots are a bit larger (median about 1.1 acres) and older (median year built 1957), and the assessor records a few houses from 1903 to 1916, before the 1948 subdivision; on the Arrowhead side, a 1903 house on Iroquois Trail sits on the old ranch headquarters. The archive's 1999 account said much of the estate's roadside stonework remained. This side sits close to the San Andreas fault: the Town's data puts 14 of the 15 Stonegate Road parcels in the state earthquake fault zone, and about 18 parcels on Grove Drive, Georgia Lane and Tintern Lane touch FEMA's AE zone along Corte Madera Creek.
Between Arrowhead and Alpine Hills, Palmer Lane, Adair Lane, Los Charros Lane, Antonio Court and the west end of Sausal Drive are later one-acre infill, with a median year built of 1974. Near the Woodside line, Possum Lane (the 1959 Corte Madera Acres tract) and Bow Way sit off lower Westridge Drive.
streets in arrowhead meadows & stonegate
- Cervantes Road
- Shawnee Pass
- Shoshone Place
- Iroquois Trail
- Arapahoe Court
- Navajo Place
- Meadowood Drive
- Sioux Way
- Kiowa Court
- Cheyenne Point
- Cherokee Way
- Cherokee Court
- Sierra Lane
- Fawn Lane
- Palmer Lane
- Adair Lane
- Los Charros Lane
- Antonio Court
- Sausal Drive
- Stonegate Road
- Grove Drive
- Grove Court
- Tintern Lane
- Georgia Lane
- Possum Lane
- Bow Way
- Westridge Drive
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Arrowhead Meadows & Stonegate
- school
Ormondale School
Portola Valley School District's TK-3 campus at 200 Shawnee Pass, on about eight acres in the middle of the neighborhood. Being nearby does not mean being assigned; check the address with the district.
- open space
Windy Hill Open Space Preserve
The preserve's lower parking area on Portola Road is about 0.4 mile straight-line from Ormondale School; the Sausal Pond Loop there is 1.6 miles.
- civic
Portola Valley Town Center
765 Portola Road, about 0.6 mile straight-line from Ormondale School: library, Town Hall, community hall, fields and playground.
- shopping
Nathhorst Triangle and Village Square
The grocery, hardware store and gas station at Portola and Alpine roads and the small Village Square center at 884 Portola Road are each about 0.8 mile straight-line from Ormondale School.
- landmark
Catoctin stonework
Stone curbs, gutters and walls built for the 1913 Catoctin estate lined Stonegate Road and Grove Drive; the Town archive's 1999 account said much of it remained, in worn condition.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
The area is in the Portola Valley School District, whose Ormondale School (TK-3) is at 200 Shawnee Pass inside the neighborhood and whose Corte Madera School (grades 4-8) is at 4575 Alpine Road, about 0.9 mile straight-line away. High school is the Sequoia Union High School District. Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with each district.
Portola Valley School District guide · Sequoia Union guide · Silicon Valley school districts
Getting around
- I-280: the Alpine Road interchange is about 2.3 miles and the Sand Hill Road interchange about 2.9 miles straight-line from Ormondale School, reached by Alpine Road or by Portola Road through Woodside.
- Caltrain: Palo Alto station is about 5.2 miles and Menlo Park station about 5.5 miles straight-line from Ormondale School.
- Bus: SamTrans service in Portola Valley has been limited to school-oriented trips; check current schedules.
- Local streets: Cervantes Road and Shawnee Pass connect to Westridge Drive, which meets Portola Road at the Bow Way corner, and Sausal Drive and Hillbrook Drive lead east to Alpine Road.
- On foot: the Town Center and the Windy Hill trailhead are each well under a mile straight-line from the middle of the neighborhood, and Portola Road has a parallel trail.
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Arrowhead Meadows & Stonegate: what we check
Buying here
- Check the fault zone on the Stonegate side. The Town's parcel data puts about 28 single-family parcels here in the state Alquist-Priolo zone, nearly all on Stonegate Road, Grove Drive, Bow Way, lower Westridge Drive and Possum Lane; the Arrowhead streets around the school are outside it. In the zone, expect a licensed geologist's report before any new occupied building and a required seller disclosure.
- Confirm sewer or septic. County maps put only about 68 of roughly 290 single-family parcels inside West Bay Sanitary District's service area, so many houses here use septic systems; ask for inspection and pumping records, or for the sewer-lateral history if connected.
- Look at flood maps along Corte Madera Creek: about 37 parcels touch FEMA's AE zone in the Town's data, mostly on Grove Drive and Georgia Lane and near Possum Lane and lower Westridge Drive.
- If the house has estate-era stonework or is one of the pre-1920 buildings, ask the Town whether any historic-resource review applies before you plan changes.
- Fire severity is mixed: the Town's data lists most Arrowhead parcels as Moderate and about 38, mostly on Stonegate Road and Grove Drive, as High. Check the current state map and get an insurance quote early.
Selling here
- Gather septic or sewer records, permits for past additions and any geologic reports; on Stonegate Road, have the fault-zone disclosure ready.
- Measure and list the walk to Ormondale School, the Town Center and the Windy Hill trailhead.
- For Stonegate houses, document any original Catoctin stonework or estate-era structure on the lot; it is part of the story buyers ask about.
- Show what a flat one-acre lot allows: the Town's floor-area and setback numbers for the parcel, and room for an ADU or pool.
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faq
Arrowhead Meadows & Stonegate questions, answered
Are Arrowhead Meadows and Stonegate official neighborhoods?
They are historical subdivisions, not official districts. Arrowhead Meadows came from the Ormondale Ranch in 1957-1963, and Stonegate from the Catoctin estate in 1948. The MLS uses both names; we combine them with the small tracts between them.
What is Corte Madera Acres?
A small 1959 subdivision of about 12 acres on Possum Lane, off lower Westridge Drive near the Woodside line. It is included in this guide.
Is the area on the San Andreas fault?
The Stonegate side is: 14 of the 15 Stonegate Road parcels are in the state earthquake fault zone. The Arrowhead streets around Ormondale School are outside it. Check the specific parcel.
How big are the lots?
About one acre. The Town zones the area R-E/1A/SD-1a, and the median single-family lot is about 1.05 acres; Stonegate's lots run slightly larger.
Which schools serve it?
Portola Valley School District, with Ormondale School (TK-3) inside the neighborhood and Corte Madera School (4-8) on Alpine Road, and Sequoia Union High School District. Check the exact address with each district.
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