Cathy Porterfield
ABR, Associate Broker
Phone: 520-331-(SALE)7253
cathy@cathyporterfield.com
 
 
Tucson Neighborhood
 

Saddlebrooke - Active Adult Community in Oro Valley

A Robson adult community nestled in the Santa Catalina foothills, just north of Oro Valley. Saddlebrooke is home to several outstanding Tucson golf courses, first-class amenities and offers a life style that will satisfy any active adult.

Saddlebrooke offers 14 luxury model homes ranging in size from 1,432 to 3,484 square feet, which include the Premiere, Estate and The Preserve series. From generous room sizes, covered patios and ample storage, each home is perfected finished. More

Saddlebrooke Arizona

Dove Mountain

High in the northwest overlooking the lights of Tucson, Dove Mountain is a must-see destination . A main attraction are the mountains that surround the building sites and an 18-hole, championship golf course called The Gallery, that is the most beautiful that I have seen in this valley!  A Place for Everyone,

Dove Mountain

La Cholla Airpark - Tucson Homes with Hangars, not Garages

La Cholla Airpark features a 4500 foot air strip smack-dab in the middle of this upscale Tucson neighborhood. And the streets are runways leading to the homes. The garages are hangars, some housing three planes. In addition to Explorers, you see Cessnas,  and Piper Cubs on the streets. Airplanes take priority over cars at La Cholla; signs warn drivers that they must pull over if faced with a taxiing aircraft. Street names are aviation oriented: for example - Tailwind Drive, Cessna Way, and Corsair Drive to name a few.

La Cholla Airpark

Stone Canyon

The 18-hole championship golf course is now open and memberships will be limited to 390. The course was designed by Jay Morrish who also deigned Troon, Forest Highlands, and the Tournament Player's Club in Scottsdale. He calls Stone Canyon "by far the best desert course site" he has ever seen. Honeybee Ridge includes the right to purchase a membership  in the Stone Canyon Club. Honeybee is a fully gated community of homes placed within an environmental "envelope" and currently priced from $1,000,000 and up, with new homes being added frequently.

Stone Canyon, Oro Valley

Sun City Vistoso - Superior Retirement in Oro Valley

A  Del Webb retirement community that located in a Beautiful part. Northwest of Tucson, Vistoso is relatively new, having been started around 1989 and completed in 1996 . Resale homes here are in demand, there is one golf course.

Sun City Vistoso

Reddington Ranch Estates - Gated, Rural, and Luxury!

Located near the end of Tanque Verde Road, Redington Ranch is behind  security gates .Home owners belong to a neighborhood association that maintains their private lake, stable, tennis courts, and recreation area. . Many of the Tucson homes here overlook the valley - across to Kitt Peak, and south  to Mexico. Lot sizes are very generous. And Paul McCartney used to live just across the road, although he sold the property after his first wife, Linda, passed away there.

 

Cimarron Estates - Up Against the Mountains

Part of The Tucson Foothills - NE quadrant from Craycroft Road and Sunrise Drive. Tucson's hilliest sub-division. This  Tucson neighborhood carves along ridge-tops and then careens down into valleys, offering residents fabulous views of either mountains or cities or both. Cimarron offers 380 homes.Cimarron is in Catalina foothills School District 16, which many people consider a superior school district.

Cimarron Estates

Cobblestone - Live in a Virtual National Park

A lovely Tucson neighborhood of large acreage home-sites way up at the top of the town, located right against the Coronado National Forest, beyond the north end of Campbell Avenue. Tucson homes here are relatively new, ultra luxury, priced between $750,000 to $17,500,000. Awesome city lights views, and you're living right amongst nature here, up against the mountain. Altitude is 4000 feet at the Gatehouse. Cobblestone is also in Catalina foothills School District 16. More

Cobblestone

Colonia Solana Estates

Considered a University Neighborhood - SE quadrant from Broadway Blvd and Country Club Drive, Bordered on the East and South by Tucson's largest park (Reid Park contains a terrific zoo, two superb public golf courses, a baseball stadium, a large outdoor amphitheater, a lake, and acres of picnic areas and ball fields.  Colonia Solana is a neighborhood of 112 mature Tucson homes valued from $500,000 to $1 million, many of which have been re-vitalized in recent years. Tucson's elite have lived here for decades. Trees and vegetation throughout the area are thick and verdant. In the rainy season, Arroyo Chico flows from the golf courses west through the neighborhood.

Colonia Solana

El Encanto Estates 

Considered a University neighborhood even though it is 2 1/2 miles from the campus  El Encanto is bound by 5th Street and Broadway, Country Club Road and Jones Avenue. El Encanto was developed in the late 1920's, an elegant Spanish style Tucson community.The planners of El Encanto designed their plat like a wheel. A center hub nature park lined with Royal Palm Trees. A charming Tucson neighborhood of 143 homes priced from $600,000 to $1 million+.

El Encanto

Finisterra - Tucson Foothill Living with Great Views

A small gated enclave at the ankle of the Catalina Foothills, that offers townhomes as well as single-family Tucson homes. On the west side of Craycroft road, two miles above Sunrise Drive, Finisterra is right up against the mountains and the Coronado National Forest Finisterra means "the end of the land" and it is - you can not build higher up the slopes than this. Magnificent views of theTucson city lights, and with the National Forest as your backyard,     Elevation at the Gatehouse is 3800 feet.,

Finisterra

La Paloma Estates -

This GATED Tucson neighborhood offers a terrific variety for the upscale Tucson home buyer. The acreage is sited on both sides of Sunrise Boulevard between Swan Road and Campbell Avenue. La Paloma Estates has 127 magnificent Tucson homes, all built since the early 1980's on acreage that once belonged to one of finest developers. The centerpieces of the foothills neighborhood is the very challenging Jack Nickolas 27-hole golf course, a private country club,