Welcome to Sherwood
Sherwood Forest, located West of Twin Peaks on the southwest slope of Mount Davidson, is themed around the folklore of Robin Hood, containing the streets, Lansdale, Dalewood, and of course, Robinhood, the highest residential street in the city of San Francisco, still decorated with the original globe streetlights. The small, three-by-two block community of about 200 homes nestled among the trees planted by Adolph Sutro and above prestigious St. Francis Wood, has been nicknamed “Pill Hill,” due to the many doctors living here. On some of the City’s largest lots with panoramic ocean views, are custom homes dating back to the 1930s designed by noted architects Julia Morgan, Timothy and Milton Pflueger, as well as, Harold G. Stoner. Mayor John Shelley built a mansion on Robinhood Drive and Mayor George Moscone lived at 90 Lansdale.
Crowning this neighborhood on the southwesterly slope of Mount Davidson are some of the more elaborate ranch-style homes to be found in San Francisco. One has white colonial style columns and a weathervane atop its carriage house. Another has enough rocks in its retaining wall to dam Islais Creek. There is a sort of English manor house. And groves of eucalyptus, cypress and pines in the gardens. Southerly and easterly, the homes are smaller and closer together. Sandwiched between Sherwood Forest and Miraloma Park is Sherwood Heights, an upper middle-class neighborhood of postwar-era homes. The dense groves of Mount Davidson are just outside most of its doors.
