The Twin Peaks West district is nestled between the Central West district on the west, Golden Gate Park on the north, the Central district on the east and the Southwest district on the south.

The district includes Mt. Davidson and Glen Canyon Park.

West of Twin Peaks

Hills and forests make this the most scenically varied part of the city. With its mostly single family houses, many of them detached, it offers the most nearly suburban character of city districts.

Boundaries: The U.S. 280 Freeway, Junipero Serra Boulevard, Vicente Street, Funston Avenue, Quintara Street, Seventh Avenue, Parnassus Avenue, Stanyan Street, 17th Street, Upper Market Street, Diamond Heights Boulevard, Congo Street.

4A - Balboa Terrace - A pleasant place to go home to, this neighborhood has the respectability and location of St. Francis Wood at a lesser scale and, one might hope, price. Its homes are set back from the street. Wiring is under grounded. Streets are landscaped and include some grassy pedestrian ways.

Boundaries: Junipero Serra and Monterey Boulevards, San Benito Way and Ocean

4C - Forest Hill - With some extravagantly landscaped curving lanes plus a sprinkling of Bernard Maybeck architecture (homes and a clubhouse), it is little wonder that this is an expensive area. The residents' association here pays for and owns the streets by dunning property owners for the bills.

Boundaries: Seventh Avenue, Laguna Honda and Dewey Boulevards, Taraval Street and, on the west, a north south line running between the junctions of Eighth Avenue and Linares and Ninth Avenue and Pacheco Street.

4D - Forest Knolls - One of the city's newer home subdivisions, everything here seems shiny and white and clean. Front gardens are just big enough for shrubs. Wiring is underground, and the Mt. Sutro location provides views of the ocean and Golden Gate.

Boundaries: Seventh Avenue, Kirkham Street, Clarendon Avenue and Crestmont Drive.

4E - Ingleside Terrace - Among the few areas of San Francisco where houses are detached, as in the suburbs. Curving cul dc sacs inhibit auto traffic enough for kids to play safely in the streets. Homes vary in style from country bungalow to the ersatz Spanish that was popular here a few decades back. Urbano Drive still follows the path of the onetime race track that was here. In the oval's core is a plaza with a huge sun dial. On a rise at the westward edge is a section of expensive looking houses designed in neo Iberia style. The entire neighborhood suggests there's a potential for gracious urban living here.

Boundaries: Junipero Serra Boulevard, Ocean, Ashton and Holloway Avenues.

4F - Midtown Terrace - Although one of the newest home developments in San Francisco, its oldest house has recorded a twentieth birthday. There are more than eight hundred families living here on the southerly slopes of Twin Peaks, adjacent to the mid city green belt. There’s not a shop in the settlement, but it does boast a thriving Armenian church, St. John's, whose annual food bazaar is a Mecca for astronomers.

Boundaries: Clarendon Avenue, Panorama Drive, Farview Court, Marview Way, Portola Drive to Burnett Avenue.

4G - Ingleside Heights - Most of the homes here were built during the middle of this century. They range in income level from middle to upper middle and they're almost exclusively single family residences. Overlaps with Merced Heights, Ocean View and Ingleside neighborhoods.

Boundaries: Garfield and Randolph Streets, Orizaba Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard.

4H - Ingleside- A neighborhood that mixes a variety or twentieth century family homes, the newer of which appear to be circa 1936 models With tiled roofs and stucco fronts.

Boundaries: Ashton, Ocean, Harold and Lakeview Avenues.

4H - Miraloma Park - This neighborhood has a reputation for being an enclave of stable, straight society in San Francisco. Most of its homes are detached and have well kept gardens out front. Some back onto the heavily forested slopes or Mt. Davidson, site or annual Eastern morning religious services. Across the road is a small shopping center that caters to a gastronomically inclined clientele.

Boundaries: Marne Avenue, Portola Drive, O'Shaughnessy Boulevard, Teresita Boulevard, Stillings Avenue, Detroit Avenue, Melrose Avenue, Burlwood Drive, Sherwood Court, Mt. Davidson Park and Juanita Way.

4K - Sherwood Forest - Crowning this neighborhood on the southwesterly slope of Mt. Davidson are some of the more elaborate ranch style homes to be found in San Francisco. One has white colonial style columns and a weathervane atop its carriage house. Another has enough rocks in its retaining walls to dam Islais Creek. There is a sort of English manor house. And groves of eucalyptus, cypress and pines in its gardens. Southerly and easterly, the homes are smaller and closer together.

Boundaries: Yerba Buena, Casitas Avenues, Lansdale Drive, Dalewood Way, to the north, west and south. To the east, the 300 block of Cresta Vista Drive and Lulu Alley on Burlwood Drive.

4M - Monterey Heights - Uphill from St. Francis Wood, along streets that swirl around a small peak, are big houses with big dogs and big cars out front. For a city that was mostly developed with single car garages, this neighborhood is uncommon for the number of double occupancy car shelters. Front windows reveal a striking
preference for flouncy satin draperies. The total effect is one or an extremely handsome neighborhood.

Boundaries: Yerba Buena Avenue, Monterey Boulevard, San Andreas and San Pablo Avenues and Portola Drive.

4N - Mt. Davidson Manor- A conservative, well manicured neighborhood of free standing, middle income, family homes, all pre dating World War II.

Boundaries: Ocean and Aptos Avenues, Monterey Boulevard, Northgate Drive and Keystone Way.

4P - Westwood Highlands - Nice gardens ... tiled roof houses colored orange, yellow or white ... here an Englishy house with small, leaded windows ... there a stuccoed pink with a tiled cupola. Utilities are underground in this family neighborhood, where the higher you go up the hill, the grander the dwelling.

Boundaries: Monterey Boulevard, Ridgewood Avenue, Yerba Buena Avenue. Hazelwood Avenue.

4P - Sherwood Heights (Westwood Highlands) - An upper middle class neighborhood of postwar era homes sandwiched between Miraloma Park and Sherwood Heights Forest. The dense groves of Mt. Davidson are just outside most of its doors.

Boundaries: Intersection or Myra and Dalewood Ways, Dalewood, Robin Hood Drive, Lansdale Avenue, Globe Alley, Ludlow Alley and the north side of Cresta Vista Drive.

4R - Westwood Park - A notch down the geographical and socio economic scale from Westwood
Highlands is Westwood Park. The quality of urban living, however, is as high. Houses stand detached from each other have plots of grass out front. Its streets curve interestingly, are clean, free of overhead wires and are attractively ornamented with planted strips. All indications are that its residents ca re.

Boundaries: Ridgewood, Greenwood, Plymouth, Ocean and Faxon Avenues and Monterey Boulevard.

4S - Sunnyside - Wedged behind the Southern Freeway (U.S. 280) and City College and below the ridge that connects Mt. Davidson with Diamond Heights is this neighborhood that seems apart from urban bustle. Its hills provide interesting sights such as a row or steeply terraced front gardens on Staples Street and a street turned stairway on Detroit.

Boundaries: Havelock Street to the south, Circular Avenue to the cast, Forester Street and City College on the west and Mangels Avenue to the north.

4T - West Portal - After a half century or so, this neighborhood continues to uphold its sedate, upper middle class air, because of appearance and location. Nestling as it does at the foot of three green hills Mt. Davidson, Forest and Edgehill Heights it's like a Swiss village. Diagonal and curving streets without overhead wires help. Then, too, it’s near the western entrance to the Twin Peaks streetcar tunnel (one day to be a Muni Metro stop), hence the name. It also has one of the more attractive neighborhood shopping areas in town if its shops can hold out against the trend of being replaced by banks and savings and loan associations.

Boundaries: 19th Avenue, Taraval Street, Claremont Boulevard, Portola Drive and Sloat Boulevard.