[5] It stretches for three or four miles (6 km) from Limantour Road, north along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, hugging the western edge of Tomales Bay.

Originally a few isolated houses, Inverness Park expanded in the 1950s as a failed developer's pipe dream called Noren Estates.

[citation needed] A later, more successful housing expansion in the steep hills called Paradise Ranch Estates more than doubled the population.

[citation needed] As the Adams family moved out of ownership, residents assumed the task of road improvement and maintenance.

[citation needed] In the fires of October 1995, forty-eight homes on the ridges of Paradise Ranch Estates burned, including that of singer Jesse Colin Young.