5227 Saratoga Drive NW

Ask anyone on the West Side where Taylor Ranch is and they'll point west from the Montaño bridge and then up the hill. The neighborhood covers the bench between the Rio Grande and the black lava escarpment, with Paseo del Norte closing it off at the north end and Western Trail and Namaste Road at the south. All of it falls in 87120. Most people looking at Taylor Ranch homes for sale want the same two things out here: a house on a real lot, and Sandia views out the back windows.The name is literal. Joel and Nina Mae Taylor bought 800 acres west of the river in 1939 and ran cattle on it, living in a two-room adobe. They later sold 300 of those acres to the Bellamah Corporation, and that parcel became the subdivision. Building started in earnest in the seventies. Marie M. Hughes Elementary opened in 1979 in twelve portable classrooms and blew past its enrollment projection in the first year, which tells you how fast the rooftops went up.What the houses are actually likeThis is a built-out...