Tweet The key word to describe Windsor is “new.” Incorporated in 1992, most of the housing has been built since the 1980’s when a home building boom took hold in what had been a small, unincorporated hamlet. The current population is estimated to be about 20,000, making Windsor Sonoma County’s fourth largest city. Home buyers [...]

Tweet Rohnert Park is Sonoma County’s answer to a totally planned city. Founded in 1969 on land that was once the largest experimental seed farm in the country, the names of streets in each residential neighborhood start with the same letter. Hence neighborhoods are referred to as the “R” section, or the “H” section. Parks [...]

Tweet Healdsburg is one of those small towns that give Sonoma County its flavor. Located 15 miles north of Santa Rosa and 70 miles north of San Francisco astride highway 101, Healdsburg is the center of the northern county wine country. Vineyards largely surround the town with the renowned Alexander Valley to the northeast and [...]

Tweet Sonoma, like several other Sonoma County towns, is desperately trying to hold on to the rural, small-town atmosphere. There is a picturesque square in the center of town around which lie shops, art galleries, restaurants and a couple of small hotels. The square gives Sonoma a sense of place. Many Sonoma residents take pride [...]

Tweet Straddling Highway 101 about one hour north of the San Francisco, Santa Rosa is the center, both physically and functionally, of a north bay trade area of about 400,000. It is the seat of county government as well as home to many state and federal offices, a center for retailing and employment in Sonoma [...]

Tweet Astride Highway 101, 40 miles north for San Francisco, Petaluma is the second largest city in Sonoma County with a population in 2010 estimated at about 60,450. Founded in 1840, in its early history Petaluma served largely as an important trade area providing supplies from the north to San Francisco via the Petaluma River, [...]

Tweet Cloverdale lies about 19 miles from Santa Rosa at the far north end of the Highway 101 corridor, near the borders of Mendocino and Lake Counties. The location lies at the convergence of prime grape-growing areas just to the south of town and the more rugged terrain which is home to vast redwood forests [...]