San Roque Foothills of Santa Barbara

We are proud to be San Roque’s neighborhood Real Estate specialists!  Few residential neighborhoods of Santa Barbara can boast the rich historical background of the San Roque and Rutherford Park areas. Ten thousand years ago the area bounded by Ontare Road, Foothill Road, Alamar Avenue and State Street was an open expanse of treeless grassland, sloping up to the knees of the foothills. San Roque’s soil has known the tread of Stone Age Indians, Franciscan padres and Spanish dons, Gold Rush banditos, rancheros, prospectors, and American farmers.

Currently, the San Roque Canyon trail that heads northward from Stevens Park, there is a grove of ancient oaks and sycamores where Chumash Indians gathered long before Columbus discovered our continent. Alongside the trail there is an outcropping of sandstone, which is polka-dotted with deep, funnel-shaped mortars and it is in this are where the Chumash Indians lived.

Now a built-up, economically stabilized suburb, it is admired for its sweeping curved streets, its beautiful landscaping, and its harmonious blend of many architectural themes – Spanish Colonial, English Tudor, French Normandy, California Redwood, Italianate and American Colonial, mostly built since 1925.

With shopping and banking facilitated at their very doorstep, residents of San Roque feel that they are living in one of Santa Barbara’s best residential neighborhoods, where investing in a home or business property guarantees future security.