Highland Village
Highland Village, Texas: The Most Beautiful City You’ve Never Heard Of
There’s a running description of Highland Village that captures it perfectly: it’s what you’d get if Flower Mound had a slightly older, slightly prettier sister. The rolling hills, the mature tree canopy, the proximity to Lake Lewisville. Highland Village has a natural beauty that is genuinely unusual for a DFW suburb. Most of North Texas is flat. Highland Village is not. The elevation changes, the wooded lots, the glimpses of lake through the trees create an environment that feels more like the Texas Hill Country than the middle of the Metroplex. Buyers who stumble onto it tend to wonder why they hadn’t looked here sooner.
The Schools: Marcus High School and a Stellar District
Highland Village is served by Lewisville Independent School District, the same district that serves Flower Mound and students here feed directly into Marcus High School, which ranks in the top 10% of all Texas high schools with a 5-star SchoolDigger rating. Math proficiency at Marcus runs at 71% against a state average of 44%, and reading at 77% against 51% statewide. The graduation rate exceeds 94%. Elementary and middle schools throughout LISD consistently earn A ratings, and the district as a whole has a strong reputation for academics, athletics, and fine arts. For families who want top-tier Flower Mound schools while exploring a different price range and housing profile, Highland Village represents a compelling opportunity.
Highland Shores: The Crown Jewel
If you want to understand Highland Village at its best, start with Highland Shores. Spanning 980 acres of hills and wooded land along the south shore of Lake Lewisville, Highland Shores is one of the most genuinely beautiful master-planned communities in all of DFW, with over 1,800 homes built between 1984 and 2005, on lots ranging from a fifth to a half acre, in a setting that looks nothing like a typical Texas suburb. The terrain here was allowed to do what North Texas terrain rarely gets to do: stay itself. Streets follow the contours of the land rather than fighting them. Homes sit tucked into hillsides and wooded lots rather than stacked on flat slabs. Mature post oak trees, the signature tree of the East Cross Timbers region, shade nearly every street.
The community amenities are substantial: three swimming pools, a clubhouse and community center, multiple tennis and pickleball courts, a basketball court, soccer fields, playgrounds, and miles of walking and biking trails that wind along the shoreline of Lake Lewisville itself. The Highland Shores Owners Association keeps the community actively engaged through holiday events, new resident welcome parties, book clubs, women’s groups, and arts and crafts activities, the kind of programming that builds genuine neighborhood connection rather than just collecting dues. Within Highland Shores, the price varies meaningfully by section and location. Homes closest to the lake, particularly those backing to the water or sitting on elevated lots with lake views are the most sought-after and priced accordingly, sometimes well above $1 million for the right property. These true lakefront and lake-view homes rarely come to market, and when they do they move quickly. Interior sections offer a more accessible price point while still delivering the wooded, hilly terrain and trail access that make the community special. Buyers looking for a creek lot, a greenbelt view, or a quiet cul-de-sac on an oversized treed lot will find genuine options here at prices that would be unthinkable for equivalent settings in Southlake or Colleyville. Homes range from roughly 2,000 to over 6,000 square feet, with the diversity of sizes reflecting the community’s 20-year build-out rather than the uniformity of a single-era development. One consistent theme throughout: these are homes designed to fit into the landscape, and the landscape rewards them for it.
Beyond Highland Shores, Highland Village has a number of other established neighborhoods: Village Estates, Doubletree Ranch, and several smaller enclaves that offer the same rolling terrain, mature trees, and larger lots in a less structured HOA environment. Many of these are no-HOA neighborhoods where lot sizes often exceed a quarter acre and the canopy has had thirty or forty years to grow. For buyers who want the Highland Village aesthetic without the HOA overhead, these neighborhoods deserve a look.
The Shops at Highland Village: More Than You’d Expect
For a city of its size, Highland Village punches well above its weight in retail and dining, largely because of The Shops at Highland Village, a 352,000-square-foot open-air lifestyle center at the intersection of 2499 and FM 407 that serves not just Highland Village but the entire surrounding region including Flower Mound, Lewisville, and Lantana.
The tenant roster is genuinely strong: Anthropologie, lululemon, Kendra Scott, Athleta, Chico’s, LOFT, Buckle, and a growing lineup of boutique fitness and wellness concepts including Body20 and iCRYO. The dining anchors include The Cheesecake Factory, Hillside Fine Grill, a local favorite for elevated American fare, ribeyes, and date nights, and Sip + Savor, which brings globally-inspired small plates and a sophisticated cocktail list to what might otherwise be a predictable suburban lineup. Dragon House recently opened with handmade dumplings and hand-pulled noodles that have quickly earned a devoted following. A new outdoor gathering space called The Backyard adds an event and community dimension to the center, with seasonal festivals, tree lighting ceremonies, summer concerts, and community events throughout the year. For Highland Village residents, The Shops functions less like a mall and more like a town center, the place where daily life and occasional celebrations happen.
Lake Lewisville: In Your Backyard
Highland Village’s relationship with Lake Lewisville is one of its defining qualities and one that most buyers don’t fully appreciate until they’re living here. At 29,000 acres with 233 miles of shoreline, Lake Lewisville is one of the largest and most active recreational lakes in North Texas. Highland Village has two city-operated boat ramps: Pilot Knoll Park and Copperas Branch Park, both on the lake’s south shore, giving residents some of the most convenient lake access in the entire region. Pilot Knoll Park adds picnic areas, a swim area, and a beach. For residents of Highland Shores, the lake isn’t just nearby, it’s accessible on foot via the neighborhood’s trail system.
The lake itself supports every water activity imaginable: boating, water skiing, jet skiing, sailing, fishing, and kayaking. It’s wide, relatively deep at an average of 25 feet, and ideal for large vessels. The fishing is known as the Urban Bass Fishing Capital of Texas. Lake Lewisville consistently produces largemouth bass, slab crappie, catfish, and hybrid striped bass. Multiple full-service marinas including Eagle Point and Pier 121 offer slips, rentals, storage, and dining. For families who want a lake lifestyle without driving to the Hill Country every weekend, Highland Village delivers it from the driveway.
Location: Built for Remote Workers and Flexible Commuters
Highland Village is ideally positioned for the modern work arrangement, particularly for families where one or both spouses work from home, or where the commute schedule is flexible enough to take advantage of I-35E’s improved infrastructure.
The highway has gotten meaningfully better over the last decade. The addition of express lanes on I-35E has transformed what was once a reliably brutal commute into Dallas into something manageable, particularly for buyers willing to commute off-peak. Downtown Dallas is roughly 30 miles south, and on a good run with the express lanes, it’s a commute that works. Denton is just 20 minutes north, an easy, low-stress drive that opens up options for buyers with ties to UNT, TWU, or the growing Denton employment corridor. DFW Airport and Love Field are both within reasonable striking distance. And for buyers who work from home full time, Highland Village’s setting of the trees, the hills, the lake, the trails makes the work-from-home lifestyle genuinely pleasant in a way that a flat suburban grid simply cannot.
Why Highland Village?
Highland Village is for the buyer who values beauty, nature, and quality of life as much as prestige and convenience, and who is smart enough to know those things don’t have to cost Southlake prices. Rolling hills, lake access, Marcus High School, The Shops, a trail system that connects to the water, and the kind of neighborhood character that takes forty years to grow. It’s one of the most genuinely special places in the DFW market, and it remains one of the most underappreciated.
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