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Cuesta Park, Mountain View Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
A mostly 1950s neighborhood of ranch houses on 6,000-square-foot lots between El Camino Real, Grant Road, Cuesta Drive and Miramonte Avenue, named for the 25-acre city park across Cuesta Drive.
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Homes for sale, for rent and recently sold in Cuesta Park
Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Cuesta Park from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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the story
How Cuesta Park came to be
Mountain View's first town started near this neighborhood's northeast corner. Around 1850 a stagecoach stop on El Camino Real near Grant Road grew into the settlement that took the name Mountain View in 1854. When the railroad arrived in 1864, the town moved to the depot by Castro Street, and the land south of El Camino stayed in farms and orchards. The Mountain View Historical Association says it was primarily agricultural until the 1950s.
Then the houses came fast. Mountain View grew from 6,563 people in 1950 to 30,889 in 1960, and ranch-style tracts went up on former orchard land. Census estimates put more than half of the homes here in the 1950s, and about four in five on the blocks between Hans Avenue and Cuesta Drive. El Camino Hospital, formed by a hospital district voters approved in 1956 with $7.3 million in bonds, opened just south of the park in 1961, the same year Awalt High School (today's Mountain View High) opened to serve the new neighborhoods south of El Camino.
The park and its open-space neighbor took longer. The 12-acre Cuesta Annex was assembled in pieces: the city bought the front three acres in the 1970s after neighbors objected to a housing plan, briefly sold them to a developer, and bought them back after foundations had been poured; the back nine acres came from the school district. In 2005 the City Council unanimously ruled out commercial and residential development there. Remnants of an old prune orchard and some wild walnut trees still stand.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
The street grid is simple. Long streets run north from Cuesta Drive: Gretel Lane, Nilda, Bonita and Begen avenues and Montalto Drive, with Boranda and Alison avenues filling in. Barbara Avenue and Hans Avenue cross them east to west between Grant Road and Miramonte Avenue, and short lanes such as Leona, Lola and Drucilla tuck in between. Phyllis Avenue runs parallel to Grant Road just inside the east edge. South of Cuesta, Begen Avenue continues to Bond Way, Crane Avenue and Gantry Way along the edge of the annex.
South of Hans Avenue the blocks are almost all R1 single-family, and the lots barely vary: the middle half of R1 parcels in city parcel data fall between about 5,970 and 6,470 square feet. That uniformity is the tract's fingerprint, and it makes additions and rebuilds easy to spot from the street. Expect 1950s ranch houses, many expanded or rebuilt over the decades.
North of Hans Avenue toward El Camino Real, and along Phyllis Avenue near Grant Road, the zoning shifts to R2 and R3, so duplexes, townhomes and small apartment buildings mix in on streets such as Boranda, Bonita, Camille Lane, Lane Avenue and Victor Way. The edges carry precise plans: El Camino Real along the north, Grant-Phyllis along Grant Road, and the Castro-Miramonte Triangle at the northwest corner, near Graham Middle School. In the census tract, about 59 percent of housing units are detached houses.
streets in cuesta park
- Cuesta Drive
- Grant Road
- Miramonte Avenue
- El Camino Real
- Hans Avenue
- Barbara Avenue
- Phyllis Avenue
- Bonita Avenue
- Boranda Avenue
- Nilda Avenue
- Gretel Lane
- Montalto Drive
- Begen Avenue
- Alison Avenue
- Leona Lane
- Lola Lane
- Drucilla Drive
- Camille Lane
- Lane Avenue
- Victor Way
- Bond Way
- Crane Avenue
- Gantry Way
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Cuesta Park
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Cuesta Park
About 25 acres on Cuesta Drive in the city's GIS, with tennis courts, a playground, picnic and barbecue areas, volleyball, and the grassy off-leash area locals call the dog bowl.
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Cuesta Annex
About 12.5 acres of undeveloped open space west of the park, with the remains of a prune orchard. A 2025 plan to add pickleball courts here or at the dog bowl drew organized opposition, and in 2026 the city turned to leased land on Clyde Avenue for its new courts.
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Bubb School and Park
The city maps 7.6 acres of the Bubb Elementary grounds, between Barbara and Hans avenues, as a school park.
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Grant Park Plaza
The shopping center in the neighborhood's northeast corner at Grant Road and El Camino Real, with three specialty grocery stores, restaurants and services.
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El Camino Hospital
The hospital's 41-acre campus sits south of the park, off Grant Road; it opened in 1961. The YMCA is nearby.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
Cuesta Park is served by the Mountain View Whisman School District for elementary and middle school and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District for high school. Two district schools are inside the neighborhood: Bubb Elementary at 525 Hans Ave. and Graham Middle School at 1175 Castro St. Amy Imai Elementary (formerly Huff) is across Grant Road at 253 Martens Ave., and Mountain View High School is at 3535 Truman Ave., about 1.5 miles southeast. Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with each district before you rely on it.
Mountain View Whisman guide · Mountain View-Los Altos high schools · Silicon Valley school districts
Getting around
- Mountain View Caltrain and VTA light rail station (600 W. Evelyn Ave.) is about 1.1 miles north of the middle of the neighborhood (straight line), roughly a 6-minute bike ride (approximate).
- VTA 51 and the Mountain View Community Shuttle stop on Grant Road at Cuesta Drive, and VTA 22 and Rapid 522 run on El Camino Real (route data from OpenStreetMap; check VTA and the shuttle for current service).
- Highway 237 begins at El Camino Real and Grant Road, the neighborhood's northeast corner. Highway 85 crosses El Camino Real about 0.8 mile east (straight line).
- The Stevens Creek Trail is about 0.7 mile east, with a connection at El Camino Real by Highway 85; it runs north to Shoreline Park.
- Downtown's Castro Street starts at El Camino Real, about half a mile from the middle of the neighborhood (straight line).
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Cuesta Park: what we check
Buying here
- Pull the permit history. Most houses here started as 1950s ranch houses, so check that additions, garage conversions and second stories were permitted and finaled.
- On 1950s houses, budget for a sewer lateral video, an electrical panel and wiring check, and a look at the foundation and any original galvanized plumbing.
- Check the zoning on and around the lot. The R1 blocks south of Hans Avenue are plain R1 on the city's zoning map, while R2, R3 and precise-plan parcels along El Camino Real, Grant Road and Phyllis Avenue allow multifamily buildings next door.
- Visit at rush hour and on a weekend afternoon. El Camino Real, Grant Road and the hospital campus to the south carry traffic, and Cuesta Park draws visitors from across the city on weekends.
- If you are near the annex or the dog bowl, follow the city's plans for both; uses there have been debated for decades.
Selling here
- Buyers compare like with like on these uniform lots, so show what changed: square footage added, systems replaced, permits finaled.
- Put the walks in the listing: minutes to Cuesta Park, Bubb Elementary, Grant Park Plaza and Castro Street.
- Have a sewer lateral video and a recent pest report ready; on 1950s houses buyers ask first.
- If your house backs onto El Camino Real, Grant Road or a multifamily parcel, disclose it plainly and show how the yard and windows handle it.
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faq
Cuesta Park questions, answered
Is the park part of the neighborhood?
It is the namesake and the neighbor. The city's neighborhood map and the neighborhood CERT list draw Cuesta Park north of Cuesta Drive, so the park and annex sit just across the street.
How old are the houses?
Mostly 1950s. Census estimates put more than half of the homes in the tract in that decade, and about four in five on the blocks between Hans Avenue and Cuesta Drive.
How big are the lots?
About 6,000 square feet on the single-family blocks. In city parcel data the middle half of R1 lots fall between about 5,970 and 6,470 square feet.
Which schools are in the neighborhood?
Bubb Elementary (525 Hans Ave.) and Graham Middle School (1175 Castro St.), both in the Mountain View Whisman School District. High school is in the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District. Check the exact address with each district.
What ZIP code is Cuesta Park?
94040.
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