Site Updated October 11, 2008. See Contractor Recommendations (9/12), Sudden Oak Death (3/30), Photo Gallery (10/3 update), LTC Water District Board (9/12), Upcoming Events (10/11) and News (6/6)

Click HERE or on History, Trails and Landmarks on the left to access Sheldon Breiner's "Peripatetic in Portola Valley"

Click HERE for the latest photos from the 2007 Annual Picnic!

Minutes of the April 22, 2008 VVCA Meeting now available - click on News

View a very special photo, taken by Rich Tryce December 1, 2006 at 90 Joaquin, of our very own "reindeer"

For the latest LTCWD information, agendas and minutes, see http://ltcwd.org. Historical LTCWD information remains on this site but will be moved to ltcwd.org in the near future.

For Los Trancos Woods Information, see www.lostrancoswoods.org.

Vista Verde Community Association was established to serve the mutual social and economic interests of property owners and residents in the Vista Verde Community and Pony Tracks Ranch, in San Mateo County, California.

Vista Verde is a residential community nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains of San Mateo County, 50 miles south of San Francisco and six miles from Stanford University. Situated above the Town of Portola Valley at an average elevation of 1500 feet, it overlooks San Francisco Bay and is surrounded by thousands of wooded acres of permanent open space, yet is only 10 minutes from Interstate 280. The 105 "rural estates" are favored by a microclimate ranked among the best in the world.

Before California was a state, Spanish colonists traversed through Vista Verde along the "Old Spanish Trail" to bring goods over the coastal mountains from Pescadero to what is now Palo Alto on San Francisco Bay. Vista Verde was developed in the early sixties on the site of a 453 acre vacation ranch owned by "Sunny Jim" Rolph, who was mayor of San Francisco in 1912 and governor of California in 1931.

Early radio buffs will be interested to know that this same coastal mountain area was the inspiration for the "Sky Ranch", the fictional home of the Barbour family in the 1932-1959 famed radio series, "One Man's Family" written by its Peninsula creator, Carlton E. Morse.