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Saratoga's northwest hillside: 1980s and 1990s custom homes on Parker Ranch Road below the Fremont Older open space, with the 1960s Arroyo de Arguello streets along Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road.
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Homes for sale, for rent and recently sold in Parker Ranch
Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Parker Ranch from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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Listings come from MLSListings and other MLSs through IDX and show their listing brokerage; confirm details with the listing agent. The map outline is the neighborhood boundary used by our listing search (Parker Ranch: Parker Ranch Rd and the Arroyo de Arguello streets (approximate)); it may not match every local definition.
the story
How Parker Ranch came to be
Before the houses, this corner of Saratoga was orchard and ranch land crossed by Prospect and Calabazas creeks, both drawn on the City's trail map. One survivor sits at the east edge: the Miller-Melone Ranch at 12795 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, a 1910-1911 Craftsman ranch house by Frank Delos Wolfe with a tank house, a windmill and the original prune orchard, listed on the National Register on April 1, 1993. The City's historic inventory also lists a house from about 1902 on Wardell Road.
The land nearer Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road subdivided first. City parcel data dates most houses on Carniel Avenue to the 1950s and 1960s; Via Roncole, Meadow Oak Road, Maureen Way and Greenmeadow Lane to the late 1960s; and Arroyo de Arguello, Wardell Road and Hillmoor Drive to about 1970 to 1972. The Oak Creek Lane and Julie Lane townhomes followed in 1979. Farther west, the Saratoga Country Club's golf course fills much of the land off Prospect Road.
Parker Ranch itself came last. Houses on Parker Ranch Road and Farr Ranch Road date mostly from the mid-1980s, and those on Star Ridge Court, Diamond Oaks Court, Picea Court and Continental Circle from the late 1980s and 1990s, all under the City's Hillside Residential (HR) zoning. Open slopes remain above the houses: the City's Parker Ranch Trail makes a 2.2-mile loop from Prospect Road through the hills, with a vista point and a 0.5-mile connection to the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve.
streets and homes
The streets and the houses
Parker Ranch Road leaves Prospect Road just west of Beauchamps Lane and climbs south; Farr Ranch Road, Vista Arroyo Court, Parker Ranch Court, Scenic Heights Way, Continental Circle, Star Ridge Court, Diamond Oaks Court and Picea Court branch off it, and Star Ridge Court reaches down to Comer Drive at the south edge. There are about 80 houses on these streets. Median lot sizes by street run from about 1 acre (Picea and Diamond Oaks courts) to about 1.6 to 1.8 acres (Star Ridge Court, Continental Circle, Scenic Heights Way), and the houses are mostly two-story custom homes from 1985 to the mid-1990s, typically about 4,000 to 5,000 sq ft in City data.
Off the bend where Prospect Road turns toward Fremont Older, Rolling Hills Road, Arrowhead Lane, Blue Hills Lane and Maria Lane are older hillside streets (1950s to 1970s) on lots of roughly 0.9 to 1.4 acres. Beauchamps Lane, Bowhill Court and Crayside Lane, also zoned HR, are late-1980s streets on smaller lots of roughly 20,000 to 38,000 sq ft beside the City's Beauchamps Park.
Below them, the Arguello streets are ranch-house country: Arroyo de Arguello, Wardell Road and Court, Pheasant Ridge Road, Ashley Way, Corte de Arguello, Carniel Avenue, Hillmoor Drive, Verde Moor Court, Kreisler Court, Greenmeadow Lane, Manor Drive, Maureen Way, Meadow Oak Road and Via Roncole, on lots of about 10,000 to 15,000 sq ft zoned R-1-10,000, R-1-12,500 or R-1-15,000. Most were built as single-story houses; second stories and rebuilds are now common. Oak Creek Lane and Julie Lane hold about 50 two-story townhomes from 1979, and offices and shops line the Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road frontage near Prospect Road.
streets in parker ranch
- Parker Ranch Road
- Parker Ranch Court
- Farr Ranch Road
- Farr Ranch Court
- Vista Arroyo Court
- Scenic Heights Way
- Continental Circle
- Star Ridge Court
- Diamond Oaks Court
- Picea Court
- Rolling Hills Road
- Arrowhead Lane
- Blue Hills Lane
- Maria Lane
- Beauchamps Lane
- Bowhill Court
- Crayside Lane
- Lowena Court
- Norada Court
- Saint Joan Court
- Granada Court
- Burnett Drive
- Arroyo de Arguello
- Corte de Arguello
- Wardell Road
- Wardell Court
- Pheasant Ridge Road
- Ashley Way
- Jepsen Court
- Carniel Avenue
- Hillmoor Drive
- Verde Moor Court
- Kreisler Court
- Greenmeadow Lane
- Manor Drive
- Maureen Way
- Meadow Oak Road
- Via Roncole
- Kenyon Court
- Arroyo Lane
- Mill Court
- King Court
- Oak Creek Lane
- Julie Lane
- Foothill Lane
- Comer Drive
- Prospect Road
- Pierce Road
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Parker Ranch
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Parker Ranch Trail
The City's pedestrian and equestrian trail: a 2.2-mile loop with a vista point and a 0.5-mile connection to Fremont Older, with trailheads on Prospect Road. City trail maps say dogs on leash and no bikes.
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Beauchamps Park
A 2.2-acre City park on Beauchamps Lane with a tennis court, a basketball half-court and two play areas.
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Fremont Older Open Space Preserve
Midpen's 739-acre preserve next door, open from a half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset; its Prospect Road parking area (21 spaces), past the Saratoga Country Club, is about 0.9 mile from Parker Ranch Road (straight-line).
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Miller-Melone Ranch
The National Register-listed 1910-1911 Craftsman prune ranch at 12795 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, with its tank house, windmill and orchard.
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Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road
Offices and shops line Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road near Prospect Road, and the City's context statement places the Saratoga Center and Azule Crossing shopping centers near this northern edge of the city.
schools and commute
School districts and getting around
School districts
Schools are split here. In City parcel data and Census district maps, Parker Ranch Road and its courts, Farr Ranch Road, Beauchamps Lane, Rolling Hills Road, Via Roncole, Maureen Way and the other streets near Prospect Road are in the Cupertino Union School District and the Fremont Union High School District; Ashley Way, Corte de Arguello, Comer Drive, Foothill Lane and the Pierce Road frontage are in the Saratoga Union School District and the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District; and Arroyo de Arguello, Wardell Road and Carniel Avenue are split between them. Blue Hills and Argonaut elementary schools, both Saratoga Union, are across Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, each under a mile from Arroyo de Arguello (straight-line). Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with each district.
Cupertino Union guide · Fremont Union guide · Saratoga Union guide · Los Gatos-Saratoga high schools · Silicon Valley school districts
Getting around
- Highway 85: the De Anza Boulevard interchange is about 0.3 mile from Prospect Road and Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road and about 1.1 miles from Parker Ranch Road (straight-line).
- VTA Route 51 runs weekdays on Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road, with City-mapped stops at Prospect Road, Manor Drive and Wardell Road, north to Cupertino and the Mountain View Transit Center and south to Saratoga Village and West Valley College.
- Rail: Sunnyvale and Lawrence Caltrain stations are each about 6.4 miles from Parker Ranch Road, and Mountain View about 7.6 miles (straight-line).
- Pierce Road runs southwest from Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road into the foothills; Prospect Road runs east across north Saratoga and west to the Fremont Older parking area.
- Saratoga Village is about 2 miles south (straight-line) via Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road.
nerd notes
Buying or selling in Parker Ranch: what we check
Buying here
- Confirm schools by exact address. District lines run through this neighborhood, splitting Arroyo de Arguello, Wardell Road and Carniel Avenue, so don't rely on a listing's school field; use each district's address lookup.
- Parker Ranch hillside lots are zoned HR: under the City's summary, floor area is capped at 8,000 sq ft and reduced for average slopes over 10 percent, lot coverage is limited to 25 percent of net site area or 15,000 sq ft, setbacks are 30 ft front, 20 ft side and 50 to 60 ft rear, and buildings must stay below nearby open ridgelines.
- Check hillside and creek hazards. City GIS maps ground-movement zones on much of the hillside and flags about 20 parcels in a fault zone; about 45 parcels near the creeks are in FEMA flood zone AE and about 160 have liquefaction potential. The City requires geotechnical clearance for new houses, additions and basements in hazard areas.
- Wildfire: the 2025 state maps show the homes here mostly outside High and Very High zones (City GIS: about 90 parcels Moderate, none High or Very High), but nearly half the parcels are inside the City's Wildland Urban Interface and the neighboring open space is mapped Very High, so WUI building rules and County Fire defensible-space inspections can apply.
- Ask about road maintenance, any HOA and sewer service (most parcels are in the Cupertino Sanitation District, but City data lists no district for some on Wardell Road), and check nearby proposals: the City lists Builder's Remedy applications at 12048 Parker Ranch Road and 12991 Pierce Road.
Selling here
- Print the district lookup for your exact parcel and show it with the listing; buyers here will ask which schools apply.
- For hillside homes, have permits, geotechnical and drainage reports, and defensible-space records ready.
- On the Arguello streets, document remodels and additions with permits; buyers compare a remodeled ranch house against what R-1-10,000 or R-1-12,500 would allow for a rebuild.
- For an Oak Creek or Julie Lane townhome, order the HOA document package early (budget, reserve study, insurance, minutes).
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faq
Parker Ranch questions, answered
Where is Parker Ranch?
In northwest Saratoga, west of Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road between Prospect Road and Pierce Road. Parker Ranch Road climbs from Prospect Road toward the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve; the Arroyo de Arguello streets sit below it.
Which school districts serve Parker Ranch?
It depends on the street. Parker Ranch Road and most streets near Prospect Road are Cupertino Union and Fremont Union High; the streets near Pierce Road are Saratoga Union and Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High, and a few streets are split. Check the exact address with each district.
When were the homes built?
The Arguello streets mostly in the 1950s to early 1970s, the townhomes in 1979, and the Parker Ranch hillside custom homes mostly from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, per City parcel data.
Can you walk to open space?
Yes. The City's Parker Ranch Trail loop starts on Prospect Road and connects to the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, and Beauchamps Park is on Beauchamps Lane.
Is Parker Ranch in a high fire hazard zone?
Not on the 2025 maps for the homes themselves, which are Moderate or unmapped, but much of the area is in the City's Wildland Urban Interface and the adjoining open space is Very High. Check the exact parcel.
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