Butano Canyon South Coast, CA
Rural homes in the redwood canyons near Butano State Park, south of Pescadero.
Living in Butano Canyon
Butano Canyon is a rural area of homes and cabins in the wooded canyons south of Pescadero, near Butano State Park. Sales are rare, just a few a year, and they tend to take a while: 2025 sales took a median of about 3 to 4 months at around 95% of asking, at a median around $665K.
Parking & walkability: Homes have off-street parking on rural lots, reached by narrow, winding canyon roads. Everything is a drive: Pescadero's small town center is a few miles away, and Half Moon Bay's shopping is about 30 minutes north.
What homes in Butano Canyon are doing
Single-family homes in Butano Canyon sold for a median of about $584K in 2015–16 and $690K in 2024–25, a 18% increase. Prices peaked in 2019 at $735K. In 2025, homes here sold slowly (median 105 days on market) and usually below asking (95.1% of list price on average).
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. 30 single-family sales since 2015.
| Year | Sales | Median price | $/sq ft | Days on market | Sale-to-list |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (Jan–Sep) | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| 2025 | 3 | $665K | $504 | 105 | 95.1% |
| 2024 | 2 few sales | $728K | $534 | 141 | 90.7% |
| 2023 | 2 few sales | $720K | $745 | 41 | 93.0% |
| 2022 | 7 | $675K | $741 | 15 | 96.3% |
| 2021 | 1 few sales | $1.1M | $696 | 10 | 110.0% |
| 2020 | 2 few sales | $855K | $609 | 10 | 104.4% |
| 2019 | 3 | $735K | $368 | 11 | 98.0% |
| 2018 | 3 | $575K | $595 | 41 | 96.3% |
| 2017 | 2 few sales | $568K | $395 | 84 | 98.7% |
| 2016 | 3 | $680K | $398 | 42 | 97.7% |
| 2015 | 2 few sales | $440K | $495 | 493 | 88.1% |
Butano Canyon 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 Butano Canyon; where there are several, yearly figures are sales-weighted. Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed.