Welcome to Monte Sereno Online, the Home Page for the City of Monte Sereno, California.

Monte Sereno is a beautiful community of approximately 1.56 square miles located in the southwestern portion of Santa Clara County at the base of the Santa Cruz mountains between the City of Saratoga and the Town of Los Gatos.  It is an all residential community of approximately 4,000 residents and the area is known for its rural character and wooded hillsides as well as its magnificent estates.

The City is approximately 50 miles southeast of San Francisco and just minutes from the heart of Silicon Valley and has easy access to Highways 17 and 85.  Because of  the beauty, location and superior schools of Monte Sereno many Silicon Valley executives have chosen the City as their home.

The City of Monte Sereno was founded by Admiral Thomas Inglis and was incorporated as a City on May 14, 1957.  A few of the points of interest include the home in which American author John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath, and the site of the Billy Jones Rail Road.