Best Neighborhoods in Gilroy, CA

Lions Creek is one of the quieter, safer pockets on Gilroy's west side, set near the base of the Hecker Pass corridor with Valley Oaks Drive along its western flank and Hecker Pass Road running the south edge. It's close to the Uvas Creek levee trail, the paved path locals just call the Levee, which runs for miles toward Christmas Hill Park and the Hecker Pass foothills. ... See Full Page

Sunrise Park is a calm residential neighborhood in northwest Gilroy, and the park it's named for sits right inside it, giving the streets a green center to orient around. It's one of the most settled-feeling parts of the city, the kind of quiet where the neighborhood park is the main event and through-traffic is somebody else's problem. ... See Full Page

Eagle Ridge is Gilroy's marquee address, a gated, master-planned community spread across the rolling hills southwest of Santa Teresa Boulevard and wrapped around the Eagle Ridge Golf Club at its center. The Mediterranean-style homes date to the early 2000s and sit on generous lots along the fairways, with a clubhouse, pool, and tennis behind the gate and a guard out front. ... See Full Page

Las Animas is a north-central neighborhood whose best feature is right at its doorstep: Las Animas Veterans Park, the 23-acre community park along Mantelli Drive with ball fields, tennis and basketball courts, a skate facility, and walking paths that stay lit for night play. For a mid-priced part of Gilroy, that's a real amenity to have on the western edge. ... See Full Page

Ventana at Los Arroyos is a newer planned community in northwest Gilroy, a self-contained subdivision of recent-vintage homes laid out around streets like Summerhill Circle and Daffodil Place. Everything here is built to the same plan and era, so the streetscape is uniform, clean, and clearly newer than the older central neighborhoods. ... See Full Page

Crestwood is one of the more down-to-earth pockets of west Gilroy, a grid of established residential streets tucked against Santa Teresa Boulevard on its south and west edges, with Ramona Way closing it off to the north. The homes here are practical rather than showy, and prices tend to run lower than the newer hillside tracts a few minutes south and west. ... See Full Page

Mesa Ridge is a small hillside enclave on Gilroy's south side, built up the slope with Michael Bo Lane threading through it and open hills rising behind. The homes are newer and larger, and the prices reflect both the construction and the elevated lots, which is why this pocket runs well above the south-side average. ... See Full Page

Harvest Park sits at the northern edge of Gilroy, a newer residential tract bounded by Day Road up top and Kern Avenue at the bottom, with Farrell Avenue and Woodcreek Way framing the sides. The homes are part of the wave of single-family subdivisions that filled in north Gilroy, so the streetscape is clean and consistent in a way the older central neighborhoods aren't. ... See Full Page

Mesa Ranch sits at the far southern end of Gilroy, where the city's street grid starts giving way to open foothills. Mesa Road wraps its northern and western sides and Castro Valley Road runs along the bottom, with Santa Teresa Boulevard forming the eastern edge. The setting is semi-rural, with more space and sky than you get in the central neighborhoods. ... See Full Page

Miller Avenue covers the residential blocks just west of downtown Gilroy, framed by Wren Avenue on the west and Carmel Street on the east, with the Miller Avenue corridor running through. It's a central, older part of the city, which means you're close to the action and to everyday errands in a way the edge neighborhoods aren't. ... See Full Page

Downtown Gilroy is the part of the city that actually works as a downtown, built around Monterey Street and its row of restaurants, bars, and storefronts, with Gourmet Alley tucked in behind. The Gilroy Caltrain station sits right inside the district, which makes this the one neighborhood where you can realistically get by without leaning on a car for everything. ... See Full Page