Storybook homes around Sacramento’s largest urban park: wooded trails, a public golf course, Fairytale Town and the Zoo.
Storybook homes in a park-like setting, Land Park shares its name with the park itself, Sacramento’s largest urban greenspace. Most homes in Land Park were built between 1920-1940 and still retain their interior and exterior charm. Most of the streets are treelined and the major arteries lead to Land Park, where residents enjoy tree covered walking trails, a public golf course, Fairytale Town, and the Sacramento Zoo. Land Park is ideal for both its tranquility and proximity to downtown Sacramento.
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Storybook homes from the 1920s through the 1940s, built around William Land Park, the great city park that holds the Sacramento Zoo, Fairytale Town and a public golf course.
Land Park sits south of Broadway and north of Sutterville Road, with Freeport Boulevard on the east and Riverside Boulevard or Interstate 5 on the west, depending on the source. Most homes are in ZIP code 95818. Downtown and Midtown are just to the north, and Sacramento City College is across Freeport Boulevard.
The land was once part of John Sutter’s New Helvetia grant. Hotelier and former mayor William Land left $250,000 in his 1911 will for a public park, and the city used it to buy 238 acres in 1918. After a legal challenge, work began in 1922 on a plan by landscape architect Frederick Noble Evans. The golf course opened in 1923–24 and the zoo in 1927.
The College Tract was the first and most prestigious subdivision, and building was well underway by 1927. Most of Land Park’s homes went up in the 1930s and into World War II. The Land Park Community Association was founded in 1983.
The College Tract is known for Spanish Colonial and Tudor homes, including storybook cottages by designer Frank Williams and houses by Dean and Dean and Arthur Widdowson. Most of the neighborhood is smaller two- and three-bedroom homes, with estate-scale houses facing the park along 13th Street and duplexes along Riverside Boulevard. College Tract lots are generous for central Sacramento.
Land Park is one of Sacramento’s most competitive neighborhoods. Redfin’s median sale price was $785,000 for the three months ending August 2026, down 3.7% from a year earlier. Homes typically went under contract in about 15 days, sold for about 1.5% over list, and about 41% sold above asking. Zillow’s typical home value was about $849,000 in August 2026.
Land Park is in the Sacramento City Unified School District. Crocker/Riverside Elementary (K–6, 2970 Riverside Boulevard) is in the neighborhood, and C.K. McClatchy High School (3066 Freeport Boulevard), which opened in 1937, is on its eastern edge. Check the assigned schools for a specific address with SCUSD’s School Finder.
Redfin rates Land Park 68 for walking, 90 for biking and 43 for transit. SacRT’s Blue Line stops at Broadway, 4th Avenue/Wayne Hultgren and City College stations along the neighborhood’s edges, and Interstate 5 runs along the west side.
William Land Park covers about 166 acres, with the Sacramento Zoo, Fairytale Town, Funderland, a public golf course and the William A. Carroll Amphitheater. Smaller parks include Reichmuth, Cooledge, Argonaut and Bahnfleth. The Tower Theatre and Tower Cafe, Vic’s Ice Cream, Freeport Bakery and Taylor’s Market are neighborhood institutions.
The Land Park Community Association organizes a neighborhood clean-up day each fall and a free Meet Santa event at the golf course in December, and Fairytale Town hosts Super Halloween each October.
Facts checked October 2026. Sources: Land Park Community Association, park history · Wikipedia · City of Sacramento, William Land Park cultural landscape · Redfin market data · Zillow · Crocker/Riverside Elementary · C.K. McClatchy High · Tower Theatre (Wikipedia) · Sacramento Zoo · Fairytale Town
The Tower Theatre opened on December 27, 1938, and its Streamline Moderne tower, designed by architect William B. David, has marked the northern entrance to Land Park ever since. It is described as the oldest remaining continuously operating picture palace in Sacramento, and it is now run by Angelika Film Center.
The theater even gave Tower Records its name, because the first store was built into the side of the building. It has hosted premiere screenings of Lady Bird and the Tower Records documentary All Things Must Pass, and the Tower Cafe has been a popular neighborhood restaurant next door since 1990.
The Sacramento Zoo opened in William Land Park on June 2, 1927, as a 4.2-acre zoo with 40 animals, combining smaller collections from McKinley, Southside and McClatchy parks. An expansion in the early 1960s brought it to 14.3 acres.
Today it is home to more than 300 animals representing over 90 species. The zoo has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums since 1979, and since 1997 it has been run as a nonprofit by the Sacramento Zoological Society.
Fairytale Town opened in William Land Park on August 29, 1959, as a storybook park where children can climb into the stories they read. Today the 3.5-acre children’s play park and outdoor museum has 23 themed areas, including Humpty Dumpty’s Bridge, King Arthur’s Castle, the Old Woman in the Shoe and a pirate ship.
It is open daily from March through October and Thursday through Sunday in the winter months, weather permitting, and it hosts seasonal events such as Super Halloween each October.
Land Park is south of Broadway and north of Sutterville Road, with Freeport Boulevard on the east and Riverside Boulevard or Interstate 5 on the west. Most homes are in ZIP code 95818.
The park was funded by a 1911 bequest from former mayor William Land. The city bought the land in 1918 and began building the park in 1922, and the College Tract homes followed in the 1920s.
Redfin’s median sale price was $785,000 for the three months ending August 2026, and homes typically went under contract in about 15 days.
Mostly Spanish Colonial and Tudor homes from the 1920s through the 1940s, including storybook cottages, with estate-scale homes facing the park along 13th Street.
William Land Park has the Sacramento Zoo, Fairytale Town, Funderland and a public golf course, and the Tower Theatre and Vic’s Ice Cream are neighborhood favorites.
Blue Line light rail stations sit along its edges.
Hollywood ParkThe Ice Cream Social, the 4th of July parade, original 1950s homes. Land Park nearby, without the Land Park mortgage.
Curtis ParkBuilt around a pedestrian-friendly park. Craftsman, Tudor and Mission homes under Valley Oaks.
Pocket & GreenhavenLate-’60s to early-’90s ranch homes, the Greenbelt and canal paths, Didion K-8 and the Delta Breeze.
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