Larkspur Homes for Sale

Larkspur sits on Bend's east side, bounded roughly by Highway 20 and Franklin Boulevard to the north, Reed Market Road to the south, the Parkway to the west, and the urban growth boundary to the east, according to the Larkspur Neighborhood District. It runs from the base of Pilot Butte south to the Reed Market corridor. The district itself is a voluntary group of residents and businesses recognized by the City of Bend, not a homeowners association. Its board is volunteer-run, meets monthly, and works on city-facing issues such as traffic safety, sidewalks, bike access, and land-use review rather than deed restrictions. Bend Source, the Bend alt-weekly, places Larkspur among the east-side neighborhoods that draw families and young professionals for larger lots and short commutes to jobs.

Pilot Butte anchors Larkspur's north end and gives the neighborhood its skyline. The 114-acre cinder cone was donated to the state of Oregon in 1927 by a group of Bend business associates in memory of Terrence Hardington Foley, according to Oregon Parks and Recreation Department records, with additional land added in 1941. Long before the donation, the butte served as a landmark that guided wagon-train immigrants to safe crossings of the Deschutes River. Three trails climb through juniper and sagebrush to the summit, a gain of about 490 feet, and on a clear day the view reaches Mount Bachelor, Broken Top, the Three Sisters, Mount Jefferson, Black Butte, and Mount Hood. The paved summit road is open to vehicles seasonally, May 1 through September 30. The trails themselves are open on foot year-round.

Getting to Pilot Butte's summit from Larkspur does not require a car. The Larkspur Trail runs 3.9 miles north to south, 2.58 miles of it paved, linking Larkspur Park to the Central Oregon Historic Canal Trail near Pilot Butte Middle School, with a tunnel carrying the path under Highway 20 rather than across it, according to Bend Park and Recreation District. The district's 34,000-square-foot Larkspur Community Center sits near the trail's south end, at 1600 SE Reed Market Road. The $23 million rebuild reopened April 5, 2021, about $196,000 under its budget, with a 135,000-gallon leisure pool kept between 87 and 89 degrees, a fitness center with a walk and jog track and Cascade views, and a pool lift that the district and local news outlet KTVZ describe as the first of its kind in North America, letting a wheelchair user roll on, strap in, and lower into the water without help. A state park, a paved trail, and a full-service rec center inside a short walk or bike ride of most of the neighborhood is the strongest daily-life argument for Larkspur.

Families weighing Larkspur for schools have two specific programs to consider, not just a boundary assignment. Bear Creek Elementary, at 51 SE 13th Street, is Bend-La Pine Schools' home for the Spanish Dual Language Immersion program, a K-5 choice option that runs kindergarten and first grade about 80 percent in Spanish and 20 percent in English, then rebalances Spanish and English through fifth grade. Pilot Butte Middle School, at 1501 NE Neff Road near the trail's north end, became the first public middle school in Oregon outside the Portland metro area to earn International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme authorization, in January 2015. It remains one of only four public middle schools in the state with that designation, and the program now covers all roughly 700 students at the school.

The trade-off is that Larkspur is not finished changing, and not all of that change reads as amenity. The neighborhood district's own land-use tracker lists a 133-unit townhome project between Daly Estates and Pettigrew, a 176-unit apartment complex proposed for the corner of Bear Creek and Pettigrew, and the Wildflower project on 15th Street southeast of Wilson Avenue, a multi-hundred-unit mix of apartments, townhomes, and cottages immediately adjacent to the Larkspur Trail that broke ground in June 2025 after roughly a decade of planning delays. None of that is unusual for a fast-growing part of Bend, but it means three-story apartment buildings and new townhome rows are landing next to older single-family blocks, and it is a large part of why the neighborhood district exists, giving residents a formal channel on exactly that kind of land-use decision.