WestPark, Roseville, CA

Westpark is the anchor of Roseville's western build-out, the piece that turned Blue Oaks Boulevard from a two-lane country road into a spine of schools, parks, and shopping. It is a true master-planned community, laid out in villages with their own parks and connected by a trail network that actually gets used. The housing runs from smaller attached product up to larger single-family blocks, most of it built in the last twenty years. What makes Westpark work is that the daily-life pieces landed inside the neighborhood instead of a drive away. West Park High School opened here, there are neighborhood shopping pads along Blue Oaks, and the park spacing means most homes are a short walk from a playground or a green. It reads as one of the more complete of the west-side communities rather than just a subdivision with a name. The catch is the same one the whole west side carries: you are a good distance from the freeway and from old Roseville, and the streetscape is young, so the trees are still catching up to the houses. For buyers who want new construction, planned parks, and a school within the boundary, Westpark is usually the first west-Roseville name on the list.