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Miraloma Park & Sunnyside, San Francisco Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide
The houses wrapped around Mount Davidson: Miraloma Park's 1926-onward tract, Sherwood Forest and Westwood Highlands, Westwood Park's 1918-23 bungalow oval and Sunnyside's 1891 grid down to I-280.
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the story
How Miraloma Park & Sunnyside came to be
Most of this ground was still open hillside when Behrend Joost bought about 200 acres of the former Rancho San Miguel in 1891; his April 1891 advertising offered 48 blocks and 2,250 lots as Sunnyside. To reach them, the San Francisco and San Mateo electric line he franchised started service in 1892, with its powerhouse near today's Monterey Blvd and Circular Ave. Monterey Blvd was then Sunnyside Avenue. Sales were slow at first: the Assessor's roll puts the median Sunnyside house at 1925, and a short run of 1925-1927 storefronts on Monterey Blvd was found eligible for the California Register in 2026 as the Monterey Boulevard Neighborhood Commercial Historic District.
Westwood Park went up as the Twin Peaks Tunnel was being finished; the tunnel opened to streetcars on February 3, 1918. Baldwin & Howell laid out the tract on about 90 acres of Mount Davidson's south slope, the Westwood Park Association formed on March 21, 1917, a few months after grading began, and the association dates the firm's building to 1918-1923. It counts more than 650 bungalows. The entrance pillars and gateways at Miramar Ave and Monterey Blvd, Miramar Ave and Ocean Ave, and Judson Ave and Frida Kahlo Way became city Landmark No. 314 in 2024.
Miraloma Park was the Meyer Brothers' project. The neighborhood's improvement club, incorporated in 1936, describes about 208 acres assembled from the Sutro estate and other owners, a plan of one-story homes over garages, and building that ran from 1926 into the 1950s. Planning has found two small pieces eligible for the California Register as the Miraloma Park Historic District: the 1926 houses on Portola Dr that served as the tract's gateway, and the block bounded by Miraloma Dr, Juanita Way and Marne Ave. Sherwood Forest and the upper streets of Westwood Highlands filled in mostly in the 1950s and early 1960s, and the summit of Mount Davidson is city parkland.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
Above Monterey Blvd the streets follow Mount Davidson's contours. Teresita Blvd, Molimo Dr, Marietta Dr, Los Palmos Dr, Juanita Way, Myra Way, Bella Vista Way, Rockdale Dr, Foerster St, Evelyn Way and Stanford Heights Ave carry the bulk of Miraloma Park's roughly 1,900 houses, typically living space over a street-level garage on a lot of about 2,500-3,400 sq ft. Juanita Way, Rockdale Dr and Portola Dr are the older streets (Assessor medians 1926-1930); Molimo Dr, Marietta Dr, Los Palmos Dr and Foerster St are mostly 1950s. Sherwood Forest, on Robinhood Dr, Dalewood Way, Lansdale Ave and Casitas Ave, is about 230 houses from the 1950s and early 1960s on larger lots, with a median near 4,900 sq ft.
Westwood Highlands sits between Miraloma Park and Monterey Blvd. Hazelwood Ave, Brentwood Ave, Valdez Ave and Colon Ave are 1920s blocks; Cresta Vista Dr, Los Palmos Dr and Burlwood Dr higher up are 1940s-60s. South of Monterey Blvd, Westwood Dr and Eastwood Dr form an oval split by Miramar Ave, and the roughly 610 houses inside Westwood Park have a median year of 1921. The Planning Code makes Westwood Park a residential character district with its own design guidelines, dated 1992. Sherwood Forest and Westwood Highlands are zoned RH-1(D), detached single-family.
Sunnyside is the straight grid. Joost Ave, Hearst Ave, Flood Ave, Staples Ave, Mangels Ave and Judson Ave run east-west, and Edna St, Foerster St, Gennessee St, Detroit St and Congo St climb north from Monterey Blvd. Its roughly 1,700 houses sit on lots of about 2,500 sq ft, with a median year of 1925 and later houses on Mangels Ave and Melrose Ave. Monterey Blvd is the mixed street, with houses, flats, small apartment buildings, about 85 condo parcels and NC-1 shop blocks near Gennessee St, Hearst Ave and Foerster St. South of Judson Ave, City College's Ocean campus and the former Balboa Reservoir site sit between Frida Kahlo Way and Westwood Park; site work for the reservoir housing, planned for about 1,100 homes, started in November 2025, per a local news report.
streets in miraloma park & sunnyside
- Portola Dr
- O'Shaughnessy Blvd
- Teresita Blvd
- Monterey Blvd
- Miraloma Dr
- Yerba Buena Ave
- Faxon Ave
- Ocean Ave
- Frida Kahlo Way
- Molimo Dr
- Marietta Dr
- Los Palmos Dr
- Juanita Way
- Myra Way
- Bella Vista Way
- Rockdale Dr
- Evelyn Way
- Stanford Heights Ave
- Robinhood Dr
- Dalewood Way
- Lansdale Ave
- Casitas Ave
- Cresta Vista Dr
- Hazelwood Ave
- Brentwood Ave
- Valdez Ave
- Colon Ave
- Miramar Ave
- Westwood Dr
- Eastwood Dr
- Plymouth Ave
- Joost Ave
- Hearst Ave
- Flood Ave
- Staples Ave
- Mangels Ave
- Judson Ave
- Edna St
- Foerster St
- Gennessee St
- Detroit St
- Congo St
- Melrose Ave
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Miraloma Park & Sunnyside
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Mount Davidson Park
About 40 acres of city parkland around the summit, which Rec and Park calls the highest point in San Francisco. Eucalyptus forest covers the west side and coastal scrub and grassland the east; trails start from the ends of Myra Way and Dalewood Way.
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Sunnyside Conservatory
City Landmark No. 78 (designated 1975) at 236 Monterey Blvd, an early-1900s conservatory and garden owned by Rec and Park. Public Works finished a renovation in 2009 that reopened it for public use.
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Sunnyside and Miraloma playgrounds
Sunnyside Playground (about 2.6 acres, 233 Melrose Ave) and Miraloma Playground (about 2.4 acres, 25 Omar Way), plus the small Joost & Baden mini park and the O'Shaughnessy Hollow open space (about 11 acres) on the east edge.
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Monterey Blvd and Portola Dr shops
Small neighborhood-commercial (NC-1) blocks on Monterey Blvd between Foerster St and Gennessee St, and on Portola Dr near Evelyn Way and Juanita Way. The Ocean Ave commercial strip is just south of Westwood Park.
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Westwood Park gateways
Landmark No. 314 covers the entrance pillars and gateways at Miramar Ave and Monterey Blvd, Miramar Ave and Ocean Ave, and Judson Ave and Frida Kahlo Way.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
The area is served by San Francisco Unified (SFUSD). Public schools physically in the neighborhood are Miraloma Elementary (175 Omar Way) and Sunnyside Elementary (250 Foerster St), and City College of San Francisco's Ocean campus is on Frida Kahlo Way. SFUSD assigns seats by application and lottery; the attendance area tied to an address is a tiebreaker, not a guarantee. The district is reworking its elementary assignment policy, with changes reported for no earlier than the 2028-29 school year, so check any address with SFUSD's Enrollment Center.
Getting around
- Balboa Park BART is about 0.7 mi straight-line from Monterey Blvd at Edna St and about 0.65 mi from Miramar Ave at Westwood Dr; Glen Park BART is about 0.75 mi from Monterey Blvd at Edna St.
- The K Ingleside runs on Ocean Ave along the south edge, with a stop at City College; Forest Hill station on the Twin Peaks Tunnel is about 0.4 mi straight-line from Portola Dr at Evelyn Way.
- Muni buses, per public route maps: the 36 on Teresita Blvd and Myra Way, the 43 on Frida Kahlo Way, Gennessee St and Miraloma Dr, the 23 on Monterey Blvd, the 44 on O'Shaughnessy Blvd and the 48 on Portola Dr. Check SFMTA for current service.
- I-280 has a northbound on-ramp at Monterey Blvd and ramps at Ocean Ave and Geneva Ave (city street data); Portola Dr runs northeast to Market St and the Castro.
- Downtown (Powell St BART) is about 4 mi straight-line from the middle of the area.
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Miraloma Park & Sunnyside: what we check
Buying here
- Hillside lots: about 8% of the area, mostly on Mount Davidson's slopes (including parts of Myra Way, Los Palmos Dr and Saint Croix Dr), is inside a state-mapped earthquake-induced landslide zone. Work there can require a geotechnical report; check the parcel on the state Seismic Hazard Zone map and in the disclosure report.
- Historic status: the 1926 Portola Dr houses and the Miraloma Dr / Juanita Way / Marne Ave block are in a California Register-eligible district, and Westwood Park's gateways are a city landmark. Check the address in the Property Information Map's Preservation tab before planning exterior changes.
- Design rules: the Planning Commission adopted Miraloma Park design guidelines in 1999 (design review is required, the guidelines themselves are advisory), and Westwood Park is a Planning Code residential character district with its own guidelines. The Westwood Park Association also publishes CC&Rs and guidelines; read them before you buy if you plan an addition.
- Ground floors: many over-garage houses have finished rooms or units downstairs. Pull the permit history, check ceiling height, egress and drainage, and confirm with Planning what an ADU or extra unit would need (RH lots can allow more units under conditions).
- Monterey Blvd condos and flats: get HOA budgets, reserve studies and minutes and check current dues. For a tenant-occupied unit, confirm Rent Ordinance coverage; buildings first built after June 13, 1979 are exempt from the rent-increase limits but still covered by eviction rules.
- Flood and fire: FEMA maps the area as Zone X (minimal flood hazard), and CAL FIRE's 2025 local-responsibility map shows no fire hazard severity zone here. Read the natural hazard disclosure anyway, and check the SFPUC 100-year storm flood map for low spots.
Selling here
- Name the tract. The MLS has no Miraloma Park area, so sales here are filed under Sherwood Forest, Westwood Highlands, Sunnyside, Westwood Park and nearby areas; put the street and the neighborhood name in the remarks so buyers searching for Miraloma Park find it.
- Have the permit record ready for any ground-floor rooms, decks or rebuilt stairs, and the Westwood Park Association documents if the house is inside the oval.
- Photograph views from the main rooms on a clear day, and describe them plainly; fog on Mount Davidson's west side is part of the deal.
- Pre-listing inspections pay off on 1920s houses: foundation, stucco and drainage on slopes, sewer lateral and electrical.
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faq
Miraloma Park & Sunnyside questions, answered
Is Miraloma Park its own MLS area?
No. The MLS area list used for this site has no Miraloma Park, so its sales are filed under Sherwood Forest, Westwood Highlands, Sunnyside and nearby areas. This guide follows the city's published Realtor neighborhood map, which does name Miraloma Park, and combines it with Sunnyside, Westwood Park, Westwood Highlands and Sherwood Forest.
Where does Sunnyside end and the Outer Mission begin?
This guide uses I-280. Sunnyside is the grid north and west of the freeway; Mission Terrace and the Outer Mission are south and east of it, as on the city's neighborhood maps. Some listings near Joost Ave, Monterey Blvd and Mangels Ave are filed under Outer Mission anyway, so go by the street.
Can you hike up Mount Davidson?
Yes. Trails climb through about 40 acres of park from the ends of Myra Way and Dalewood Way. Rec and Park calls the summit the highest point in San Francisco.
What is the Sunnyside Conservatory?
A city-owned conservatory and garden at 236 Monterey Blvd, designated city Landmark No. 78 in 1975 and renovated by Public Works with work finished in 2009.
Does Westwood Park have special rules?
Yes. The Planning Code treats it as a residential character district with its own design guidelines, and the Westwood Park Association publishes CC&Rs and guidelines of its own. Read both before planning changes.
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