The Vista at Twenty Mile in Nocatee

The Vista at Twenty Mile at a Glance

What Makes The Vista Different

Nocatee has close to 30 neighborhoods. Most of them are production-built at scale, in the same handful of coastal and transitional elevations. The Vista went a different direction on purpose.

The architecture

Spanish Eclectic, Spanish Colonial and Andalusian elevations: tile roofs, arched openings, stucco and interior courtyards. It's a nod to St. Augustine twenty miles south rather than to the beach four miles east.

The courtyard plans

‍Nearly every home is built around a private central courtyard, with several plans including a detached or semi-detached guest casita. That's a genuinely different way to live than the standard open-concept-plus-lanai layout, and it's the reason a lot of Vista buyers chose it: multigenerational households, buyers with regular long-stay guests, and people who want outdoor living that isn't visible from the neighbor's yard.

The scale

Forty-four homes on a single cul-de-sac street behind a gate. Twenty Mile Village has 259 homes. The Crossing has 274. The Outlook has 226. The Vista is a fraction of that, which changes the day-to-day feel considerably.

The lots

‍Homesites here run roughly a third to a half acre, which is large for Nocatee, and every one of them backs to preserve or water. There are no interior lots looking at another roofline.

The Homes

Homes in The Vista were built to eight floor plans across three elevation styles. Actual built sizes range from about 3,500 square feet to just over 6,000, with four to six bedrooms and three- or four-car garages standard.

Homesites and the Street

The entire neighborhood sits on Wilderness Ridge Drive, entered through a gate off the Twenty Mile road network. Verified lot sizes on the street run from about 0.34 acre to 0.53 acre, averaging close to 0.41 acre, noticeably larger than the 40- to 70-foot homesites common through much of Nocatee.

Views split between preserve frontage and water. The preserve lots are the quieter ones and tend to feel more private; the water lots get the light. Neither commands a consistent premium over the other in the sales data we've seen, which is unusual and worth knowing when you're pricing.

Market Snapshot: September 2026

With 44 homes and no new construction, resale volume is low by nature, and any single sale moves the neighborhood's averages noticeably. Here's what the record shows.

With 44 homes and no new construction, a single sale moves the averages here. Price per square foot has run anywhere from $377 to $564 depending on finish level, lot position and timing, and homes have not moved in a straight line.

229 Wilderness Ridge sold in March 2026 for $1,825,000 after trading at $2,275,000 in November 2023. Ask us for a full comparable analysis on a specific home rather than working from any one number on this page.

What the Numbers Say

Homes that started in the low $900,000s in 2019 are trading between $1.8M and $2.1M today. That's meaningful appreciation, but the trend is not necessarily a straight line.\

229 Wilderness Ridge sold in March 2026 for $1,825,000 after selling for $2,275,000 in November 2023. Price per square foot across recent sales runs roughly $377 to $564, a wide band that reflects how much finish levels and lot position vary here. We recommend not pricing a Vista home off a single comp.

How The Vista Compares to Other Twenty Mile Neighborhoods

Twenty Mile is a village of roughly a dozen neighborhoods, and they are not interchangeable. Buyers who tour The Vista are usually also looking at these.

If you desire custom construction and a bigger lot, River Landing is the real comparison. If you want the smallest possible neighborhood, The Hammock at nine homes beats it. If you want Spanish architecture and courtyard living, Vista is it. Call us at (904) 465-9139 and we'll walk you through the trade-offs.

HOA and CDD Fees

CDD (Community Development District)

‍The Vista sits in St. Johns County, which puts it in the Tolomato Community Development District. The CDD is a special-purpose government that financed and maintains Nocatee's public infrastructure: Splash Water Park, the Spray Park, the Swim and Fitness Clubs, the 5,000-acre Greenway, Nocatee Parkway, stormwater and lighting. It appears on the annual property tax bill in two parts: a fixed debt assessment paying down the infrastructure bonds, and an operations-and-maintenance assessment that shifts with the district's yearly budget.

The debt portion can be paid off early. Tolomato publishes approximate payoff figures. For exact number, Tolomato requires an estoppel letter from the district (currently a $250 fee).

HOA (Home Owners Association)

‍Nocatee doesn't run a single master HOA. You pay the CDD for the community-wide amenities, plus dues to a neighborhood sub-association that covers things specific to your street: in The Vista's case, the gate, entry landscaping and common areas. Nearby for context: Twenty Mile West HOA (Twenty Mile Village, The Pointe) runs $550/year; River Landing runs $2,772/year.

Nocatee Amenities From The Vista

The Vista has no amenity center of its own. That's by design: the neighborhood is the gate, the street and the homes, and everything else is a short drive or cart ride away inside Nocatee.

Splash Water Park: the Rip Tide twin corkscrew slides on the tallest water slide tower in Northeast Florida, a 450-foot lazy river, the Splash Cove children's pool, a family lagoon pool, and a 377-foot zipline running 35 feet up at better than 37 mph. There's a separate adults-only 21+ area with its own pool.

Nocatee Spray Park: a four-story interactive spray playground with more than 75 water features, a main pool of over 17,000 square feet, a dueling head-first mat slide with a 360-degree loop, a two-person tube slide, plus the Serenity Bay family pool and Scuttle Cove toddler area.

Nocatee Swim Club: an eight-lane junior-Olympic competition pool with shaded bleachers, plus basketball, pickleball and volleyball courts.

Nocatee Fitness Club: 5,000 square feet, open 24 hours a day, with cardio and strength equipment, trainers and group classes.

Greenway Trails: more than 5,000 acres of connected parks, wildlife corridors and wetland preserve, with paths for biking, walking and electric carts linking the villages to Town Center.

Pickleball: 12 lighted outdoor courts on Nocatee Parkway, resident-priority mornings and evenings on weekdays.

Water access: a non-motorized kayak launch at the base of Nocatee Parkway, and Nocatee Landing on the Tolomato River with an open-air pavilion and launch.

Nocatee Preserve: 2,400 county-managed acres south of the Palm Valley Bridge with more than three miles of unpaved trails for hiking, mountain biking, birding and horseback riding.

Twenty Mile Park: the village's own park, closest to home.

Nocatee Town Center: more than 120 businesses, including the largest Publix in Northeast Florida and a GreenWise market, plus Anejo Cocina, Chop House at Nocatee, First Watch, M Shack, Timoti's Seafood Shak, Treylor Park, South Kitchen, Starbucks, Orange Theory, Burn Boot Camp, and medical offices from Baptist HealthPlace, UF Health St. Johns, Brooks Rehabilitation and Jacksonville Orthopaedic Institute.

Still coming: BODYBAR Pilates and SoFresh in 2026, Shores Fine Wine & Spirits in 2027, and The Hub at Nocatee, a 63,225-square-foot open-air marketplace, in 2028.