Alpine Road Area Menlo Park, CA
Unincorporated Stanford Weekend Acres along Alpine Road, a small, rural-feeling pocket near Stanford.
Living in Alpine Road Area
The Alpine Road Area covers Stanford Weekend Acres, a small unincorporated pocket along Alpine Road bordered by the Stanford golf course and San Francisquito Creek. As the name suggests, it began as a weekend getaway: pastel 1920s farmhouses, barns turned into studios and a row of tiny one-room cabins at the end of Homer Lane still sit among cypress and pine trees, alongside newer modern homes, many on private roads. It's a tiny market, with only about 3 to 5 sales a year, and prices have been flat over the decade, with a median around $3M in both 2015–16 and 2024–25.
Parking & walkability: Homes have driveways and off-street parking, and many roads are narrow, private and without sidewalks. It's a driving neighborhood, but Stanford, Sand Hill Road, the Stanford Shopping Center and Highway 280 are all just a few minutes away.
What homes in Alpine Road Area are doing
Single-family homes in Alpine Road Area sold for a median of about $3.02M in 2015–16 and $3.03M in 2024–25, a 0% increase, behind Menlo Park as a whole (+61%). Prices peaked in 2022 at $3.9M. In 2025, homes here sold quickly (median 14 days on market) and close to asking (100.0% of list price on average). So far in 2026 (3 sales through September), the median is $2.23M.
Median single-family price, 2015–2026
* 2026 covers January through September. Hollow dots mark years with fewer than 3 single-family sales; treat those medians as rough. 37 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 3 | $2.23M | $1,572 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2025 | 3 | $3.17M | $1,245 | 14 | 100.0% |
| 2024 | 5 | $2.94M | $1,216 | 11 | 98.7% |
| 2023 | 4 | $2.5M | $1,470 | 10 | 98.1% |
| 2022 | 3 | $3.9M | $1,232 | 10 | 104.5% |
| 2021 | 5 | $2.42M | $1,233 | 31 | 92.9% |
| 2020 | 2 few sales | $3.58M | $1,248 | 4 | 103.4% |
| 2019 | 3 | $2.58M | $1,274 | 22 | 98.4% |
| 2018 | 3 | $2.5M | $1,331 | 11 | 100.5% |
| 2017 | 1 few sales | $3M | $756 | 107 | 100.1% |
| 2016 | 3 | $3.27M | $871 | 13 | 100.0% |
| 2015 | 2 few sales | $2.65M | $956 | 11 | 102.0% |
Alpine Road Area on the map
Borders are built lot by lot from the county's property lines and where homes have been listed (MLS neighborhood codes), and stay inside official city limits (dashed), so a home or two along an edge may differ from official MLS lines.
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Source: MLSListings, Inc. closed sales, 2015–September 2026, summarized by Drew Lehr. Neighborhood figures combine the MLS area(s) that make up Alpine Road Area; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.