So inky black are the night skies at Diamond Tail Ranch that the community’s first park has been designed for stargazers. Residents hike the short pathway to the Shooting Star Corral, where they’ll find permanent pads installed for private telescopes. Conversations with neighbors flow easily under the old-fashioned ramada, its shady roof crisscrossed with oak branches.

Here, where foothills and canyons merge into the Sandia Mountains northeast of Placitas, New Mexico, there are no street lights. Hiking trails take the place of grassy parks and basketball courts. Hilltops and ridgelines sprout trees and boulders instead of brightly lit homes. Open space is abundant, as is wildlife.

“We’re building a community—a lifestyle, not a subdivision,” is what Diamond Tail Ranch manager Dan Dennison tells the empty nesters and professionals who come here to buy and build in this exclusive high desert community, where the price of the average home is expected to be in the high six figures.

 

 

 

Diamond Tail Ranch, a master planned community, is the first Signature Community to debut at the annual Homes of Enchantment Parade sponsored by the Home Builders Association of Central New Mexico. During the Parade weekends, the gated community will be accessible to the public, with open houses at two homes. Visitors can tour Phase I of Diamond Tail Ranch, 59 home sites on 231 acres dotted with piñon and juniper. In all, about 300 homes are planned for the 1,800-acre development to be built in five phases by owner/developer Joe Matthews.

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