7719 San Augustine Street NW

The lay of the landHead west on Ouray past Unser and the city thins out in a hurry. That's Ladera West. It sits up on the West Mesa in 87120, with the city's Ladera Golf Course along its east flank and the cinder-cone volcanoes of Petroglyph National Monument filling the horizon to the west. Most people looking at Ladera West homes for sale come for exactly that combination: an unfussy mesa neighborhood with real open space at the end of the street.The mesa rides well above the river valley, so the east-facing views back across the city to the Sandias are the good ones. Sunsets go the other direction, over the volcanoes. Streets are wide. The trees are still young by valley standards, because all of this was sand and grama grass forty-odd years ago.The housesMostly single-family tract homes from the 1980s and 1990s, with a little earlier stock and some later infill. Stucco, pitched tile roofs, a handful of flat-roofed Southwest contemporary plans. Three and four bedrooms is the norm an...