Berry Park & The Woods, San Jose Homes for sale, recent sales and a Property Nerd’s guide

This guide takes its name from two associations on the city's map: Berry Park, a homeowners association on streets named for berries and trees, and The Woods, the association area on The Woods Dr. A third association, Park Place, covers the 'Park' streets toward Monterey Rd, and the Frontier Village association reaches up from Branham Ln. That last name goes back to Frontier Village, a Western-themed amusement park that ran at Monterey Rd and Branham Ln from 1961 to 1980; archive records say its land became Edenvale Garden Park, just across Branham Ln.

City annexation records show the land joining San Jose in pieces between 1955 and 1981. Early 'Monterey Park' pieces along Monterey Rd came in 1955-1957, and most of the rest followed in 1964-1968 ('Edenvale No. 1' and 'No. 6', 'Snell No. 8'). Building came later here than in the tracts west of Snell Ave: city sewer records date the Berry Park streets to 1974-1975, the Park Place streets to 1976-1977 and Deer Run Cir with its courts to 1986. The city's tract layer counts 13 recorded tract maps with about 635 lots.

The rail line along Monterey Rd (Union Pacific's Coast Subdivision on public maps, also used by Caltrain) runs down the east edge, and Capitol Caltrain station is a short way north of the Capitol Expwy corner.