Are you looking for a quiet neighborhood without much traffic and with beautiful homes with established landscapes? If so you should check out the homes in the Bent Creek and Old Ranch areas of San Ramon: www.BentCreek-Old Ranch.com.

Nestled in the Dougherty Valley, the Bent Creek-Old Ranch area consists of the following developments:

• Bent Creek
• Bent Creek Estates
• Bent Creek Parc
• The Hills at Bent Creek
• Old Ranch Estates
• Old Ranch Summit

The Bent Creek-Old Ranch area is bordered by the following boundaries:

• On the west by a hill that separates the Doughtery Valley from Alcosta Blvd. and the valley that includes the 680 corridor.
• On the south by the Dublin border.
• On the east by Dougherty Road, across from which is open space on the grounds of Camp Parks.
• On the north by a creek that separates where Dougherty Road becomes Bollinger Road (which leads on to the Windermere development).

The creek mentioned above travels through the whole Bent Creek development. There is a trail along the length of the creek, often on both sides of the creek, so every Bent Creek home has this beautiful trail to take serene walks, job, walk dogs, etc. You will find Bent Creek neighbors to be very friendly. I’ve lived in the Bent Creek-Old Ranch area for 15 years and I often walk my dog in the evening. My current dog is Bob who is some sort of hound mix and my previous dog was Betty, a gorgeous and incredibly well trained Flat Coat Retriever. If you have never seen a Flat Coat Retriever they are part of the same family of dogs as Golden Retrievers and Labrador Retrievers, yet the Flat Coats have long black hair and are thinner, almost like a black Irish Setter but not so skinny.

The Bent Creek homes were built by Ponderosa and the Old Ranch homes were built by Davidon. The oldest of the Bent Creek and Old Ranch homes were built 15 years ago, and many have had their bathrooms and kitchens remodeled with new fixtures and counter-tops. One nice thing about a 15 year old neighborhood is that all of the landscaping and trees are well established. So many modern developments have no landscaping and the homes are incredibly close together so you get what I call the “fish bowl effect”, where it seems all of your neighbors can look right into your home like you were in a fish bowl. The Bent Creek and Old Ranch homes have great privacy due to all of the mature trees.