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Lone Tree Neighborhoods

A small city split down the middle by I-25: the established neighborhoods, the golf course and the mall on the west side, a 3,500-acre master plan filling in on the east. The verifiable basics for each, from the City's own records, and none of the listing-site guesswork.

By Connor Tien, DougCo Social · Updated September 2026 · Photo: City of Lone Tree

Lone Tree grew in pieces, and the City's own history page keeps the dates: the first subdivision in 1982, the incorporation vote in 1995, the 3,500-acre RidgeGate annexation in 2000, Heritage Hills, Centennial Ridge and Carriage Club in 2001, Park Meadows in 2007, and the first residents east of I-25 in 2023. So a Lone Tree address means one of two water districts, usually an HOA, sometimes a metro district, and either the finished west side or the still-building east side. This guide sticks to what I could verify: who runs what, what each area has, and which neighborhoods pay a second bill. Prices change weekly and belong to your agent.

The divide
I-25: Southgate water west, Parker Water east
HOAs
28 on the City's June 2026 list
Metro districts
6 (City list)
Light rail stations
5

The Lay of the Land

C-470 and County Line Road on the north, I-25 through the middle, RidgeGate on both sides of it.

Lone Tree is 9.81 square miles (Census, 2020), with C-470 and Park Meadows on its north edge and I-25 running north to south through it. Everything the City built its first twenty years around is west of the highway: the neighborhoods off Lone Tree Parkway, Heritage Hills, the golf club, Park Meadows, and the west portion of RidgeGate with Sky Ridge, the Arts Center and the Rec Center. East of the highway is the rest of RidgeGate, where the first residents arrived in 2023 and where the City now posts a project page for the park, the grocery store, the school and the Justice Center going in around Lyric.

The trail system is the thread. South Suburban maintains the neighborhood parks and the Willow Creek Trail (the City says it gets you to Cook Creek Park or Prairie Sky Park), Douglas County runs the Bluffs Regional Park loop, and the 27-mile East/West Regional Trail runs through. The City asks for a six-foot leash in every park and notes that Prairie Sky is not an off-leash area.

Looking north over Lone Tree rooftops with solar panels toward the office buildings along I-25 and the Denver skyline
Rooftops on the west side, the I-25 office corridor behind them, Denver on the horizon · Photo: City of Lone Tree

West of I-25

The established side: the original neighborhoods, Heritage Hills, the golf club and the mall.

The original city: Acres Green and the Lone Tree Parkway neighborhoods

West of I-25Where Lone Tree started in 1982Southgate water

The City's history page puts the first subdivision here on Memorial Day weekend of 1982, nine households strong, and by 1991 the area had 13 homeowners associations and no city; the 1995 incorporation vote followed. The spine is Lone Tree Parkway, and the civic stuff still sits along it: the Civic Center at 8527, Cook Creek Pool at 8711, the Lone Tree Hub at 8827 (the library branch until 2015, South Suburban's since 2016), Centennial Ridge Park at 10022 and the Lone Tree Recreation Center at 10249 RidgeGate Circle. Acres Green has its own park at 13524 Acres Green Drive; its elementary school consolidated into Silver Spruce in Highlands Ranch for fall 2026 and the district says the building and playground stay open to the community.

Water
Southgate Water and Sanitation Districts (west of I-25, per the City)
Parks here
Cook Creek Park and pool, Centennial Ridge Park, Acres Green Park, Lonesome Pine Park (501 Maximus Drive), Maximus Trail Park, Sweetwater Park (13170 Mercury Drive)
HOAs on the City list
Centennial Ridge, The Charter, Club Terrace, Ridgeview, The Vista (Acres Green is on the City's park map, not its HOA list)

Heritage Hills and Heritage Estates

West of I-25Annexed 2001HOA plus a metro district

Annexed into the city in 2001 along with Centennial Ridge and Carriage Club, per the City's history. This is the neighborhood with two lines on the tax statement: the Heritage Hills HOA (managed by Keystone, with its own site at heritagehillshoa.org) and the Heritage Hills Metro District, one of six metro districts the City lists. Lone Tree Elementary, the district's magnet school that opened in 2007, is inside it at 9375 Heritage Hills Circle, and the Douglas County motor vehicle office is at 9350 Heritage Hills Circle, which makes the plates errand a very short one. Xcel's own Colorado communities list names Heritage Hills as a gas-and-electric community.

Water
Southgate Water and Sanitation Districts
School inside
Lone Tree Elementary (magnet), 9375 Heritage Hills Circle, K-5
Also here
Douglas County Motor Vehicle, 9350 Heritage Hills Circle; Heritage Estates HOA (Keystone)

Carriage Club, the Fairways and Lone Tree Golf Club

West of I-25Annexed 2001Around Lone Tree Golf Club

South Suburban's Lone Tree Golf Club & Hotel is at 9808 Sunningdale Boulevard: an 18-hole, par-72 Arnold Palmer design with a grass-tee range, the Lone Tree Grill (open to the public seven days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner) and boutique hotel suites, and the Lone Tree Tennis Center and Park is next door at 9810 Sunningdale with six courts, four of them lighted. Carriage Club was annexed in 2001; its HOA is managed by Westwind, as are The Enclave and Fairways 39. Carriage Club Estates Park (10476 Dunsford Drive) and Fairways at Lone Tree (9607 Troon Village Drive) are the neighborhood parks South Suburban lists. Other names on the City's HOA list, without a side of the highway attached: The Country Club Estates, Cypress Greens, Muirfield, Bellwether Place, Belvedere, Bluffmont Estates, Masters Park, Prominence Point, Taos and Terra Ridge.

Water
Southgate Water and Sanitation Districts; some Terra Ridge homes along Indian Wells Drive are in Northern Douglas County Water and Sanitation
Golf

Park Meadows, Lincoln Commons and the station neighborhoods

West of I-25Annexed 2007County Line and Lincoln stations

The commercial heart of the west side. Park Meadows at 8401 Park Meadows Center Drive was annexed in 2007; its owner lists 185 stores and restaurants, and the City calls it Colorado's largest regional shopping mall. The County Line light rail station sits at the mall (388 park-n-ride spaces) and Lincoln Station has 1,734. This is also where the hospitals are: Sky Ridge Medical Center at 10101 RidgeGate Parkway, UCHealth Lone Tree Medical Center at 9548 Park Meadows Drive and Kaiser Permanente at 10240 Park Meadows Drive. Lincoln Commons Row I and Row II are the associations here on the City's HOA list, and Lincoln Station and Park Meadows each have a metro district of their own.

Water
Southgate Water and Sanitation Districts
Anchors
Park Meadows; Lone Tree Brewing Company, 8200 Park Meadows Drive, "Lone Tree's first and largest independent craft brewery" per its own site
Metro districts
Lincoln Station Metro District, Park Meadows Metro District (City list)

Local tip: Almost everything on this side is in Southgate's water district, and most of it is a short drive to the same three things: Park Meadows, the Rec Center and a light rail station. Pick the street for the school and the walk, not the water.

East of I-25: RidgeGate and Lyric

The building side, from the City's project pages, Lyric's own site and our own visits.

RidgeGate

Both sides of I-253,500 acres annexed in 2000Parker Water east of I-25

Lone Tree voters approved annexing the 3,500-acre RidgeGate property in 2000, the City's history says, and the first residents moved in east of I-25 in 2023. The west portion is the RidgeGate you already know: Sky Ridge Medical Center (opened 2003), the Lone Tree Arts Center (2011) and the Lone Tree Recreation Center (2004). The east portion is where the City posts a status page for nearly every project: Lyric, High Note Regional Park (broke ground April 29, 2026), the Lone Tree Village shopping center with its King Soopers Marketplace (projected 2027), a new elementary school (August 2027), the Justice Center the police and court moved into on September 14, 2026, and the RidgeGate Parkway station with 1,300 park-n-ride spaces. Rampart Range Metro District is one of the six the City lists, and the HOAs on the City list with RidgeGate in the name are RidgeGate Central, RidgeGate West Village, Montecito at RidgeGate, Northsky at RidgeGate and The Retreat at RidgeGate.

Water
Parker Water and Sanitation District east of I-25; Southgate west of it (per the City)
Coffee

Lyric at RidgeGate

East of I-25Shea HomesThe Groove

Shea Homes' neighborhood next to I-25 and the RidgeGate Parkway station, offering condominiums, townhomes, rowhomes, single-family homes in two-story and ranch styles and larger residences, per Lyric's own site. Its center is The Groove at 10930 Lyric Street, the cafe, restaurant, bar and welcome center that is open to everyone (the pool and fitness space are for residents), which we covered when it opened in June 2026; the City wrote it up the next month too. High Note Regional Park is going in at the corner of High Note Avenue and Lyric Street with two lit synthetic fields, a playground, a splash feature, a dog park with separate big-dog and small-dog areas, a food truck area, a small stage and a 200-seat beer garden the City says Lone Tree Brewing Company is expected to run, planned to open in 2027. The neighborhood's elementary school opens in August 2027 with room for 750 students.

HOA
Lyric, managed by Advance HOA Management (City list)
Coming
The Groove cafe and restaurant building at Lyric at RidgeGate in Lone Tree
The Groove at Lyric, 10930 Lyric Street, on our first visit in June 2026 · Photo: DougCo Social

Landmarks by Address

Plot these on a map against any listing; they are the places you will actually drive to.

Municipal Building
9220 Kimmer Drive, Suite 100 (city hall for everything but police and court)
Justice Center
12707 High Note Avenue (police and municipal court since September 14, 2026)
Civic Center
8527 Lone Tree Parkway (City Council meets here)
Library
Douglas County Libraries Lone Tree, 10055 Library Way
Arts Center
10075 Commons Street (City-owned, opened 2011)
Rec Center
10249 RidgeGate Circle (South Suburban)
Hospitals
Sky Ridge Medical Center, 10101 RidgeGate Parkway; UCHealth Lone Tree Medical Center, 9548 Park Meadows Drive; Kaiser Permanente, 10240 Park Meadows Drive
Schools
Eagle Ridge Elementary, 7716 Timberline Road; Lone Tree Elementary, 9375 Heritage Hills Circle; Eagle Academy, 9350 Teddy Lane
Bluffs trailhead
10099 Crooked Stick Trail (Douglas County)
Schweiger Ranch
10822 S Havana Street (the 1874 homestead, restored)
Motor vehicle office
9350 Heritage Hills Circle (Douglas County)
Light rail
County Line (at Park Meadows), Lincoln, Sky Ridge, Lone Tree City Center, RidgeGate Parkway

HOAs and Metro Districts

The City's own lists of who might send you a second bill.

The City publishes a homeowners association contact list (updated June 1, 2026) so residents can find their board and manager. As of that date it runs: Bellwether Place, Belvedere, Bluffmont Estates, Carriage Club, Centennial Ridge, The Charter, Club Terrace, The Country Club Estates, Cypress Greens, The Enclave, Fairways 39, Heritage Estates, Heritage Hills, Lincoln Commons Row I and Row II, Lyric, Masters Park, Montecito at RidgeGate, Muirfield, Northsky at RidgeGate, Prominence Point, The Retreat at RidgeGate, RidgeGate Central, RidgeGate West Village, Ridgeview, Taos, Terra Ridge and The Vista.

Separately, the City lists six metropolitan districts, which it describes as political subdivisions of the state created under Colorado law to finance and manage public improvements the City or county does not provide: Hawkview, Heritage Hills, Lincoln Station, Omni Park, Park Meadows and Rampart Range. The City does not map which addresses each one covers; the district's own site or the property tax statement does.

What it costs at an address
The Douglas County Assessor's tax district map and calculator, 303-660-7450

How to Choose

Four questions that sort most people.

Ride the train
Lincoln Commons and the Park Meadows area for County Line and Lincoln stations; the RidgeGate neighborhoods for Sky Ridge, Lone Tree City Center and RidgeGate Parkway.
Brand new, still building
Lyric and the east side of RidgeGate: a park, a grocery store and a school all arriving in 2027, and construction in between.
Established, on a golf course
Carriage Club, the Fairways and the Heritage Hills neighborhoods, annexed in 2001, around South Suburban's Arnold Palmer course.
A specific school
Plug the address into the DCSD School Locator before you fall for the kitchen; the assigned school is guaranteed, a school of choice is not.

Local tip: Whatever you pick, drive it twice: once at 7:30 on a weekday morning, once at 5:30pm. Then ask three questions: which water district, which HOA, and is there a metro district on the tax statement. The house will still be there.

FAQ

What are the main neighborhoods in Lone Tree?

The City does not publish neighborhood boundaries, but its own records name them: the original 1982 subdivisions along Lone Tree Parkway (Acres Green, Centennial Ridge and their neighbors), Heritage Hills and Carriage Club (annexed 2001), the Park Meadows and Lincoln Station area (Park Meadows annexed 2007), and the 3,500-acre RidgeGate master plan on both sides of I-25 (annexed 2000), whose east side includes Lyric, Montecito, Northsky and The Retreat at RidgeGate. The City's June 2026 HOA list has 28 associations.

Which water district am I in?

Per the City's utility-providers page: Southgate Water and Sanitation Districts for property west of I-25, Parker Water and Sanitation District for property east of I-25, and Northern Douglas County Water and Sanitation District for some homes in Terra Ridge along Indian Wells Drive. Electricity and gas are Xcel everywhere.

Does Lone Tree have HOAs and metro districts?

Both. The City keeps a contact list of 28 homeowners associations (Heritage Hills, Carriage Club, Centennial Ridge, Lyric, Montecito at RidgeGate and so on) and a list of six metropolitan districts: Hawkview, Heritage Hills, Lincoln Station, Omni Park, Park Meadows and Rampart Range. A metro district is a special district that finances public improvements and levies a mill on the property tax statement, so check the statement for any address you are considering.

Is RidgeGate part of Lone Tree?

Yes. Lone Tree voters approved annexing the 3,500-acre RidgeGate property in 2000, per the City's history page. Sky Ridge Medical Center, the Arts Center and the Rec Center are on its west side; Lyric, High Note Regional Park, the new Justice Center, the coming King Soopers and the RidgeGate Parkway station are on the east side, where the first residents moved in during 2023. Some east-side addresses carry a Parker 80134 mailing ZIP; they are still in the City of Lone Tree.

How do I find my assigned school for a Lone Tree address?

Use Douglas County School District's School Locator Map. Every address has an assigned neighborhood school, and you can also apply elsewhere in the district through open enrollment. The City lists Eagle Ridge Elementary, Lone Tree Elementary, Cresthill Middle School and Highlands Ranch High School among the schools serving Lone Tree, and the district says Lyric is served by Eagle Ridge, Cresthill and Highlands Ranch High until the new Lyric elementary opens in August 2027; our schools guide has every school.

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Sources

Read on September 30, 2026. The annexation dates, water districts, HOA and metro district lists and addresses are the City's; park addresses are South Suburban's; Lyric's description is Lyric's own; school addresses are the district's. Photos are the City of Lone Tree's, used with credit, plus our own.

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