Carlton Hills

Rolling out from the tree-lined edges of the Northeast neighborhood, Carlton Hills sits on twenty-nine acres where older single-family homes from the nineteen-forties and sixties anchor quiet streets, their wooded lots breathing easy at a quarter acre or so. Downtown Grand Rapids rises just ten minutes down the road, close enough to matter but far enough away that you still hear birds instead of traffic. Four parks within a mile mean trails through old-growth trees are a short walk—the kind of place where foxes and turkeys remind you that nature hasn't quite given up on the neighborhood.