Sterling Ranch Patio Villas

Sterling Ranch Patio Villas is a 55+ neighborhood of 248 paired patio homes tucked inside Sterling Ranch, a 3,400-acre (expanding to 4,000-acre) master-planned community at the base of Colorado's Rocky Mountain Foothills in unincorporated Douglas County, just 20 miles south of downtown Denver. Built by Lennar beginning in 2020, the community is still delivering new homes alongside a growing resale market. Homes are single-story attached duplexes ranging from roughly 1,648 to 1,871 square feet with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a one- or two-car garage. Floor plans include the Carlsbad I/II, Castillo I/II, and Coronado I/II — all with open living areas, gourmet kitchens, covered decks or patios, and mountain or trail views. Every home comes with Lennar's Everything's Included® package plus Sterling Ranch's signature smart-home technology and gigabit fiber internet, built on the community's own purpose-built fiber-optic network. What sets life here apart is everything that comes with living inside Sterling Ranch itself. Residents get a free annual Colorado State Parks pass — Sterling Ranch is the only community in Colorado to offer this — which is especially meaningful because Roxborough State Park and Chatfield State Park are literally adjacent to the community. The on-site Sterling Center serves as the community's civic hub, with Atlas Coffee, Living the Dream Brewing taproom, UCHealth primary and urgent care, Steadman Hawkins physical therapy, a family dentist, Sterling Eyecare, and a credit union — essentially a walkable small-town center. The Overlook Recreation Center offers a 4,900 sq ft Great Hall with catering kitchen, fitness center, outdoor pavilions, and a pool, while the new Prospect Park adds an inclusive pool, playground, turf field, and basketball court. A dedicated Community Lifestyle Director plans resident events ranging from classes and clubs to the inaugural Sterling Ranch Days western festival. The setting is genuinely special: 30 miles of interconnected trails, nearly 40% preserved open space, and rolling terrain framed by the Front Range. Governance runs through the Sterling Ranch Community Authority Board (CAB) and a metro district rather than a traditional HOA — residents pay roughly $316/month in metro district fees plus an annual mill levy (~$3,800/year at 88.444 mills). Because Patio Villas is one neighborhood inside a larger mixed-generation master plan, residents enjoy the social and commercial density of a full-scale town while keeping the low-maintenance, right-sized-home lifestyle most 55+ buyers want. Sterling Ranch has ranked #1 best-selling master-planned community in Denver Metro for five consecutive years and among the top 50 nationally — this is not a sleepy adult enclave, it's a thriving, growing community with decades of build-out ahead.