1822 Tramway Terrace Loop NE

Sandia Heights sits on the west face of the Sandia Mountains, above the rest of the city, and it doesn't look or work like anywhere else in Albuquerque. Most buyers looking at Sandia Heights homes for sale come for the setting first. Big lots, winding streets, national forest at the top of the hill. What surprises them is everything else that comes with it.Where it actually sitsTechnically this isn't the city. Sandia Heights is unincorporated Bernalillo County, a census-designated place with the Albuquerque line as its southern boundary. Mail goes to Albuquerque 87122 and everyone calls it the far Northeast Heights, but the county sheriff answers here, not APD, and no city trash truck comes up the hill. Elevation runs around 6,165 feet through the middle of it and climbs from there. That's roughly a thousand feet above the valley floor, and you feel it in July.Tramway Boulevard is the western edge. Tramway Road, the two-lane that climbs toward the tram base, runs through the middle and...