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A small shopping crossroads where Fremont Avenue, Miramonte Avenue and Loyola Drive meet Foothill Expressway, with City of Los Altos blocks on one side and unincorporated county streets on the other.
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Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Loyola Corners from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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the story
How Loyola Corners came to be
The name is older than the shops. In 1904, according to a Los Altos Town Crier history of the district, the Jesuits of Santa Clara bought about 650 acres of the old Hale Ranch, running north from Permanente Creek, for a new college to be named for their founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. They graded the land, cut some roads and drew up plans for 10 buildings plus a dairy and creamery. Money ran short, many building pledges were canceled after the 1906 earthquake, and the college was never built. In 1923 the land was sold to Los Altos Country Club Properties, which set aside 155 acres for the Los Altos Golf & Country Club and subdivided the rest.
The railroad bet on the college anyway. Southern Pacific's new line through Los Altos ran where Foothill Expressway runs today, and it put a stop here and named it Loyola Corners in expectation of students. A historical marker in the district counts it as one of five Los Altos stops. The station is long gone; the Town Crier places it near today's Tom's Depot diner at 991 Fremont Avenue. Regular passenger service ended in 1958, the last trains ran in 1964, and Foothill Expressway was built on the old right-of-way.
The shops filled in around the old stop after World War II. A Safeway opened on Miramonte Avenue in the 1950s and stayed until about 1986, the Loyola Corners Merchants Association formed in 1953, and a new post office opened in 1999. Today the commercial corner is inside the City of Los Altos and is governed by the Loyola Corners Specific Plan, first adopted in 1990 and updated in 2017, while most of the old Jesuit land across Foothill Expressway is still unincorporated Santa Clara County.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
Loyola Corners is a crossroads more than a grid. Fremont Avenue runs in from the Rancho side, bends east at the corner and heads toward Sunnyvale; Miramonte Avenue comes south from Mountain View and ends at Fremont; and across Foothill Expressway, Loyola Drive, Country Club Drive, Arbor Avenue and Frontero Avenue all converge on the corner from the golf course side. The commercial core, about 17 acres in the city's specific plan, lines Fremont Avenue, A Street, B Street and the south end of Miramonte.
North of Fremont, city blocks such as Dolores Avenue, Loraine Avenue, Carob Lane, Aura Way and Manor Way hold small older houses mixed with larger rebuilds; one 1942 house on Dolores Avenue sits on a 5,227-square-foot lot. Across Foothill, the unincorporated streets climb gently: Terrace Drive, Lundy Lane, Belvoir Drive and Crestview Drive rise from about 240 feet at the corner to about 280 feet near Mora Drive (USGS elevation data). Public-record averages put lots at about 12,500 square feet on Lundy Lane and 13,600 on Terrace Drive, and listing records include a 1924 house on Lundy Lane with a lot of more than half an acre.
Because many of the 1920s country club lots were split again over the decades, lot shapes and sizes change from one block to the next. Expect original cottages next to two-story new construction, and remember that two similar streets a few hundred yards apart can fall under different rulebooks, one city and one county.
streets in loyola corners
- Fremont Avenue
- Miramonte Avenue
- Foothill Expressway
- A Street
- B Street
- Loyola Drive
- Dolores Avenue
- Loraine Avenue
- Carob Lane
- Maple Lane
- Aura Way
- Nancy Lane
- Manor Way
- Rosemont Avenue
- Autumn Lane
- Terrace Drive
- Lundy Lane
- Belvoir Drive
- Crestview Drive
- Corte Via
- Mora Drive
- Hoffman Terrace
- Shadow Creek Place
- Esberg Road
- Hierra Court
- Thorsen Court
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Loyola Corners
- shopping
Loyola Corners shops
A neighborhood-scale strip of cafes, salons, a bike shop, cleaners and offices along Fremont Avenue, A Street and Miramonte Avenue, with the Loyola Corners post office at 1525 Miramonte Avenue. The city lists Loyola Corners as one of its seven shopping districts.
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Tom's Depot
A diner at 991 Fremont Avenue that stands near the site of the old Loyola Corners train stop; a 2008 mural inside recalls the railroad history.
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Loyola fire station
County Fire's Station 76 (Loyola) is just up the street at 765 Fremont Avenue. Under a 2026 LAFCO decision, Los Altos joins the Central Fire Protection District on January 1, 2027, and the city-owned station transfers to the district.
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Heritage Oaks Park
A 5.33-acre city park at Portland and Miramonte avenues, under half a mile north.
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McKenzie Park
A 4.3-acre city park at 707 Fremont Avenue with two lighted courts shared by tennis and pickleball, about half a mile northwest.
- shopping
Rancho Shopping Center
About 0.8 mile up Foothill Expressway at Springer Road; it opened in 1951 with 30 shops.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
Census school-district maps place the shops, the city blocks north of Fremont Avenue and the unincorporated Loyola streets in the Los Altos School District (TK-8) and the Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District; listings on Dolores Avenue, Terrace Drive and Lundy Lane report the same. District lines here do not follow the city line: city streets just east of Permanente Creek, such as Granger Avenue past the creek, Peninsular Avenue and Montclaire Way, map to the Cupertino Union School District and the Fremont Union High School District. LASD's Loyola Elementary is about half a mile north on Berry Avenue. Attendance boundaries change, so check any address with each district's own locator before you rely on it.
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Getting around
- No train station in Los Altos: Mountain View Caltrain is about 2.9 miles north and Sunnyvale about 3.6 miles east (straight-line distances).
- Foothill Expressway runs right through the corner toward Palo Alto and Cupertino; Fremont Avenue reaches the State Route 85 interchange about 1.5 miles east.
- Interstate 280 is reached at the Magdalena Avenue interchange to the northwest or the Foothill Boulevard/Grant Road interchange to the southeast, each roughly 1.3 to 1.7 miles away (straight line).
- Downtown Los Altos (Main and State streets) is about 2.4 miles northwest; the Rancho Shopping Center is about 0.8 mile.
- Bikes: Foothill Expressway and Miramonte Avenue are both mapped as countywide bike corridors in OpenStreetMap; check current lane conditions before you ride.
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Buying or selling in Loyola Corners: what we check
Buying here
- Confirm jurisdiction first. The shops and the blocks north of Fremont Avenue are City of Los Altos; streets across Foothill such as Terrace Drive and Lundy Lane are unincorporated Santa Clara County, where the county handles zoning, building permits and code enforcement. A Los Altos 94024 mailing address does not tell you which.
- For a county parcel, ask County Planning about the base zoning and the Los Altos-area neighborhood preservation overlay (-n1) before you plan an addition, ADU or SB 9 project; LAFCO noted in 2015 that county development standards were less strict than the city's, and rules can change.
- Ask about the sewer. LAFCO reports that homes in the unincorporated island connect to the Los Altos sewer system through an assessment district; request the lateral's age and any inspection or assessment records.
- Permanente Creek runs along the east edge. Check the FEMA flood map for the specific parcel; Valley Water's Permanente Creek project and a 2024 map revision changed flood zones mainly downstream, so do not assume.
- If you are eyeing a commercial or mixed-use property, read the Loyola Corners Specific Plan: the 2017 version caps buildings at 30 feet and two stories, and the city's Housing Element calls for an update to allow more housing. Ask planning staff where that update stands.
Selling here
- State jurisdiction plainly in the listing (City of Los Altos or unincorporated county) and pull permit history from the right agency; county permits are on file with Santa Clara County, not the city.
- Get lot size from county records or a survey; lots here range from about 5,000 square feet to more than half an acre, and the lot often carries more of the value than the house.
- Report school districts exactly as the district locators give them for your address, with a note that buyers should verify; a few hundred yards changes the answer here.
- Walking distance to the post office, Tom's Depot and the Fremont Avenue shops is a real feature; measure it in minutes rather than describing it.
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faq
Loyola Corners questions, answered
Is Loyola Corners in the City of Los Altos?
The shopping district and the blocks north of Fremont Avenue are. Most streets across Foothill Expressway, including Terrace Drive, Lundy Lane and the Country Club area, are unincorporated Santa Clara County, which the Census calls the Loyola census-designated place (about 1.39 square miles), even though they use Los Altos 94024 addresses.
Why is it called Loyola Corners?
In 1904 Santa Clara's Jesuits bought land here for a college to be named for Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Southern Pacific put a stop on its new line nearby and named it Loyola Corners. The college was never built, but the stop's name stuck to the shopping district that grew around it.
What does unincorporated mean for an owner?
Zoning, building permits and policing come from Santa Clara County instead of the City of Los Altos. LAFCO's 2015 review says the island's homes use the Los Altos sewer system through an assessment district but get no direct municipal services from the city. Confirm current service providers for a specific address.
Will Loyola Corners get more housing?
The 2017 update of the specific plan allowed up to 20 additional homes and capped buildings at 30 feet and two stories. The city's 2023-2031 Housing Element draft says the unit cap cannot be enforced while the state Housing Crisis Act is in effect and calls for updating the plan to allow more housing and taller buildings. Check with the city for the current status.
Is there still a train station?
No. The Loyola Corners stop is long gone and the tracks became Foothill Expressway after the last trains in 1964. The nearest Caltrain station is Mountain View, about 2.9 miles north in a straight line.
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