Windsor & Healdsburg

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Windsor & Healdsburg

The wine country corridor — Windsor's Town Green family living and Healdsburg's plaza-town polish, fifteen minutes apart on the Russian River.

County

Sonoma

Anchors

Windsor Town Green · Healdsburg Plaza

Rail

SMART — Windsor station

Feels like

New-build family life meets plaza-town wine country

Living Here

Life in Windsor

North of Santa Rosa the county changes gear. Windsor is built around its Town Green — a genuine town square with summer concerts, a farmers market, and restaurants where you'll run into your kids' teachers. Most of its housing stock is newer than anywhere else in the county, which means modern floor plans, real garages, and predictable maintenance.

Healdsburg, fifteen minutes up US-101, is the polished one: a 19th-century plaza ringed by tasting rooms and some of the best restaurants in Northern California, sitting at the junction of the Dry Creek, Alexander, and Russian River valleys. It draws second-home buyers and full-time transplants alike, and prices accordingly.

Areas to know

Windsor Town Green district

Walk-to-the-green living — townhomes and detached homes built around the square itself.

Windsor east side

The classic master-planned neighborhoods: newer schools, parks, and cul-de-sacs.

Foothill / Shiloh edges

Larger lots against the regional parks, some with vineyard views.

Healdsburg in-town

Blocks off the Plaza — cottages, Victorians, and remodels that trade at a premium for walkability.

Fitch Mountain & Memorial Beach

River-bend living east of town, from cabins to contemporary view homes.

Dry Creek & Westside Road

Vineyard estates and country properties in the appellations themselves.

Out your front door

  • Windsor Town Green — Summer concert series, farmers market, and the county's best small-town calendar.
  • Foothill Regional Park — Oak-hill trails and three small lakes on Windsor's northwest shoulder.
  • Healdsburg Plaza — The square that made the town famous — tasting rooms, galleries, restaurants.
  • Russian River beaches — Memorial Beach and river access for summer swimming and paddling.
  • Three appellations — Dry Creek, Alexander, and Russian River valleys all begin at Healdsburg's edge.

Schools & essentials

  • Windsor Unified — K–12 in town, including Windsor High and its well-known athletics.
  • Healdsburg Unified — Small-district schools a short walk from the Plaza.
  • Healdsburg Hospital — District hospital serving the corridor.
  • US-101 & SMART — Windsor is the current northern SMART terminus; Healdsburg is a 15-minute drive up-valley.
Dry Creek Valley vineyards outside Healdsburg
Dry Creek Valley, minutes west of Healdsburg Plaza
Community Films

See it, don't just read it

We're filming each of our communities the way locals actually live them — markets, trails, main streets, and the neighborhoods in between. New films land here, onInstagram, and onYouTube.

Windsor film — in production

Windsor film 2 — in production

Windsor film 3 — in production

The Market

What your money buys here

Windsor is the corridor's value story: the newest housing stock in the county, family neighborhoods around the Green, and pricing that undercuts both Healdsburg and much of Santa Rosa's east side. Healdsburg is the premium story — in-town walkability and appellation acreage command wine-country prices, and well-done remodels near the Plaza have a buyer pool that extends far beyond Sonoma County.

Together they bracket the top half of our service corridor, and they're where the lifestyle-film side of our communities work starts paying off.

Detailed market snapshot updates quarterly. For today's numbers on a specific street or property, call — we'll pull them while you're on the phone.

Photography: Windsor downtown — Sarah Stierch, CC0 · Dry Creek Valley — Fuzchia, CC BY-SA 4.0 — via Wikimedia Commons.