Blog > Home Prices Near Silicon Valley’s Parks and Preserves, Ranked (2026)
What does it cost to live near Silicon Valley’s big parks and preserves? We measured every house that sold in the two years to October 27, 2026 against the big parks and preserves in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, and ranked the 25 with at least 20 house sales within 2 miles of the park’s map point by the median price there. Hakone Gardens led at $4.76M; Kelley Park had the lowest, $1.05M.
The short answer
- Most expensive within 2 miles: Hakone Gardens ($4.76M), Villa Montalvo ($4.71M) and Stevens Creek Park ($4.7M).
- Least expensive: Kelley Park ($1.05M), Lake Cunningham ($1.21M) and Hellyer Park ($1.3M).
Shopping now?
- Homes near parks: every home for sale near each park, live on a map. Tap a park in the table to open it there.
- Flood & Fire Zones: check the hillside and creek-side addresses.
- Talk to a Property Nerd about the streets that fit.
Every park, ranked
Houses sold within 2 miles of each park’s map point, highest median first, with the median within a mile where there were at least 10 sales; “prices nearby” opens the park’s own page.
| # | Park | City | Median within 2 miles | Per sq ft | Over asking | Sales | Within 1 mile | More |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hakone Gardens | Saratoga | $4.76M | $1,550 | 52% | 179 | $4.38M | prices nearby |
| 2 | Villa Montalvo | Saratoga | $4.71M | $1,495 | 46% | 153 | $5.39M | prices nearby |
| 3 | Stevens Creek Park | Cupertino | $4.7M | $1,244 | 44% | 55 | — | prices nearby |
| 4 | Foothills Preserve | Palo Alto | $4.5M | $1,377 | 42% | 91 | $2.92M | prices nearby |
| 5 | Rancho San Antonio | Cupertino | $4.11M | $1,667 | 61% | 314 | $4.15M | prices nearby |
| 6 | Shoreline Park | Mountain View | $3.23M | $1,859 | 82% | 206 | — | prices nearby |
| 7 | Palo Alto Baylands | Palo Alto | $3.22M | $1,871 | 64% | 209 | — | prices nearby |
| 8 | Huddart Park | Woodside | $3.17M | $1,088 | 11% | 35 | — | — |
| 9 | Vasona Lake | Los Gatos | $3.1M | $1,406 | 52% | 603 | $3.2M | prices nearby |
| 10 | Edgewood Park | Redwood City | $2.66M | $1,324 | 60% | 603 | $2.9M | prices nearby |
| 11 | San Mateo Central Park | San Mateo | $2.35M | $1,300 | 68% | 768 | $2.2M | prices nearby |
| 12 | Almaden Quicksilver | San Jose | $2.28M | $1,029 | 66% | 340 | $2.41M | prices nearby |
| 13 | Anderson Lake | Morgan Hill | $2.15M | $683 | 47% | 123 | $3.11M | prices nearby |
| 14 | Central Park | Santa Clara | $2.08M | $1,360 | 73% | 872 | $2.1M | prices nearby |
| 15 | Coyote Point | San Mateo | $2.04M | $1,255 | 67% | 352 | $1.87M | prices nearby |
| 16 | Leo J. Ryan Park | Foster City | $1.93M | $1,187 | 72% | 422 | $2.2M | prices nearby |
| 17 | Almaden Lake Park | San Jose | $1.75M | $1,017 | 66% | 889 | $1.79M | prices nearby |
| 18 | Bedwell Bayfront | Menlo Park | $1.72M | $1,255 | 66% | 306 | $1.93M | prices nearby |
| 19 | Sunnyvale Baylands | Sunnyvale | $1.69M | $1,262 | 72% | 127 | $1.58M | prices nearby |
| 20 | Rose Garden | San Jose | $1.69M | $1,100 | 61% | 667 | $1.62M | prices nearby |
| 21 | Santa Teresa Park | San Jose | $1.5M | $859 | 61% | 270 | $1.39M | prices nearby |
| 22 | Guadalupe River Park | San Jose | $1.33M | $966 | 54% | 472 | $1.21M | prices nearby |
| 23 | Hellyer Park | San Jose | $1.3M | $834 | 63% | 493 | $1.13M | prices nearby |
| 24 | Lake Cunningham | San Jose | $1.21M | $856 | 59% | 667 | $1.28M | prices nearby |
| 25 | Kelley Park | San Jose | $1.05M | $797 | 54% | 571 | $1.07M | prices nearby |
Reading it right
- Big parks have many entrances. The map point is one spot, often not an entrance, so check the trailhead you’d actually use.
- Hillside parks mean fire zones. Look the address up on our Flood & Fire Zones page and get an insurance quote early.
- Condos and townhomes aren’t in these figures; the live map shows them.
How we counted
Closed sales of houses (MLS property type “single family home”) between October 28, 2024 and October 27, 2026 in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, reported to the MLS and read through the IDX feeds that power our home search, with repeat records from different feeds removed (normalized address plus sale date), measured straight-line from each sale’s map position to each park’s map point. Condos and townhomes aren’t in these figures because the sold feed doesn’t give their map positions. Past sales aren’t a forecast or the value of any one home.
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