Highland Woods
Bonita Springs, FL · 799 homes · City of Bonita Springs
zone 1 Surge
zone — Flood zone
county map data
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Highland Woods at a glance
About Highland Woods
Highland Woods is a gated community of 799 homes in Bonita Springs. Day to day, the nearest golf course, Highland Woods Golf & Country Club, is about 0.1 miles straight-line from the community's center; the nearest library, Bonita Springs Public Library, is about 1.6 miles away; the nearest hospital, NCH Healthcare Bonita, about 2.7 miles.
Amenities — amenities compiled from Highland Woods Golf & Country Club and Bonita Springs market materials (confirm current amenities and membership terms with the club); Highland Woods is a member-owned BUNDLED golf community — include a gated entry, an 18-hole championship golf course designed by Gordon Lewis (bundled — golf membership comes with every home), a clubhouse with casual and formal dining, Har-Tru tennis courts, plus pickleball and bocce, a resort-style community pool, plus satellite pools serving the villages, a fitness center, an active social and events calendar.
On paper, the community sits in evacuation zone A. The average assessed just value across its 842 residential parcels was $509,216 in the county's 2026 roll.
Two features define Highland Woods more than the amenity list. The first is cost structure. Unlike the CDD-financed communities that fill much of the newer Bonita Springs and Estero market, Highland Woods carries no community development district — the sampled 2025 tax bill on an in-community parcel shows only a City of Bonita Springs stormwater assessment and a Lee County solid waste assessment (about $38 combined on that condo unit), not a multi-thousand-dollar CDD line. The second is bundled golf, and it cuts both ways. Because this is a member-owned community where club membership comes with the home rather than being sold as an optional tier, every owner has guaranteed access to the 18-hole Gordon Lewis-designed championship course, which suits people who intend to play; it also means you help fund the member-owned club whether or not you ever tee off. That trade-off is what a prospective buyer should weigh first.
It also helps to understand how Highland Woods is assembled, because the names get confusing on a listing search. Rather than a single subdivision, it is an umbrella of neighborhoods — single-family homes alongside villa, veranda and condominium villages such as the Terrace, the St Andrews Verandas and Heathermoor, roughly 799 residences in all — governed by one master, Highland Woods Golf & Country Club, Inc., whose principal office and common tracts sit inside the community on Highland Woods Blvd. Note that a separately registered "Highland Woods Homeowners Association, Inc." out of Tampa does not own the community's common tracts; the club is the entity whose terms actually apply.
A couple of practical notes for anyone getting serious: the community sits in Evacuation Zone A, so run the county's zone lookup before you commit, and confirm current membership terms, dues, cart options and rules directly with the club before signing anything. This page is an independent, records-based starting point, not affiliated with the HOA, club, or developer.
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Live status from the National Weather Service and NOAA, each item stamped with the time it was checked; anything past its freshness window is removed rather than shown as current. In an approaching storm, rely on official channels first: Lee County Emergency Management ↗.
This is county map data with a retrieval date — not a flood determination for insurance or lending purposes. Confirm your parcel with the official county lookup or your insurer.
Home & property numbers
36 sales · FL DOR codes 01–02 · retrieved Aug 21 2026
Recorded prices, not an appraisal — and not a valuation of any one home.
Typical build years (5th–95th pct) · Property Appraiser · Aug 21 2026
A typical build-era band — the 5th–95th percentile of parcel build years, so a stray older or newer parcel doesn't widen it. It says nothing about how many homes went up when.
2020–2024 ACS 5-year · B19013 · retrieved Aug 4 2026 · 2 tracts
Census tracts cover an area wider than the community’s own boundary.
What it costs to live here
A worked annual example — the shape of a bill here, not a quote for any home.
Worked example — 12.797 mills on a $500,000 rounded assessed value before exemptions (from the community’s average just value). Your own bill moves with exemptions and assessment caps.
No CDD; other non-ad-valorem items on the sampled 2025 bill total $38.31.
Highland Woods does not publish a fee schedule. Confirm the current amount with the HOA office before you close.
Millage Book 2025 · sampled 2025 bill
Association fees are not published here, so they are absent from this bar rather than estimated into it. Varies by lot and home; never a quote.
County roll math, one sampled tax bill and each association’s own published figures — we publish fee amounts only from official documents; amounts change annually and vary by home and exemptions. Never a quote, never tax advice.
Golf & recreation
Golf is next door — Highland Woods Golf & Country Club sits 0.1 miles from the community's center, and two more clubs sit within 0.9 miles.
Straight-line distances from the community center · checked Aug 2026.
Dining nearby
Nearest 8 licensed establishments · within 5 miDinner without the drive — the closest kitchens to the gate, nearest first.
From Florida food-service license records · straight-line distances · checked Aug 2026.
Local essentials
Nearest schools by distance — never an attendance-zone assignment. Official school finder ↗
Public, open ramps only.
Straight-line distances on a six-mile scale — › means a bit further out.
What's on nearby
For everything beyond the gate — seasonal markets, boat parades, waterfront festivals — our Southwest Florida events guide tracks the calendar county-wide.
Utilities & providers
Territory read at the community centroid — not a per-parcel guarantee.
Reported at a sampled in-community address — availability varies parcel to parcel.
Service-territory map data (checked Aug 2026) — the provider serving the area, not a guarantee of connection for any individual parcel. Confirm service and rates with the provider before relying on them.
Dates that matter in Lee County
You must own and occupy the home as your permanent residence as of January 1 to claim it for that tax year; buy after January 1 and you file for the following year.
Property Appraiser ↗The proposed-tax notice from the Property Appraiser; not a bill. You then have 25 days from its mailing date to petition the Value Adjustment Board.
FL Dept. of Revenue ↗Early-payment discounts: 4% in November, 3% December, 2% January, 1% February; a deadline landing on a weekend or holiday extends to the next business day.
Tax Collector ↗The Atlantic season per the National Hurricane Center; storms can occur outside these dates.
National Hurricane Center ↗County and state dates — the same for every Lee County community, each linked to its official source (checked Aug 2026).
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