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Storybook Highlands is a roughly 50-home, large-lot plat off Galena Road in northeast Bristol Township — mostly one-story ranches built 1972–1978 on Highland Drive East and West and Basswood Court, with recorded 2023–2026 sales from $360,000 to $422,500.
Storybook Highlands occupies a compact footprint in northeast Bristol Township, south of Galena Road and west of Orchard Road, in unincorporated Bristol, ZIP 60512. The street grid is simple: Highland Drive East and West plus Basswood Court, with a handful of frontage parcels on Galena Road itself. The Bristol Township Assessor counts 51 parcels in the plat — 49 with Bristol addresses — making this one of the community’s smaller and more cohesive subdivisions.
The core plat went up between 1972 and 1978 with no production builder documented; the assessor’s median year built is 1977, though a few older Galena Road farm parcels inside the plat date to 1935. Most homes are one-story ranches of roughly 1,344 to 1,586 square feet (assessor median 1,540), with some two-stories and bi-levels mixed in — all on large country lots with the mature trees you’d expect from a 50-year-old plat.
Recorded sales from 2023 to mid-2026 ran $360,000 to $422,500: assessor records show 17 Basswood Court at $360,000 in January 2026, 40 Highland Drive West at $422,500, and 7392 Galena Road at $409,900 — consistent with Homes by Marco’s $360,000 median. No mandatory HOA appears in MLS-fed sources; verify per listing. With about 50 homes total, only a handful trade in any given year.
Pricing reflects recorded Storybook Highlands sales in Bristol Township Assessor and MLS-fed records through mid-2026.
Ranches are the plat’s signature — mostly 1970s builds around the assessor’s 1,540 sq ft median. A recent example on Basswood Court: a 3-bedroom, 2-bath ranch of 1,540 square feet that closed in the low $360Ks.
See listings →A smaller share of two-story and bi-level homes rounds out the plat. All recorded 2023–2026 sales — ranch or otherwise — fell between $360,000 and $422,500 per Bristol Township Assessor records.
See listings →A handful of frontage parcels along Galena Road sit inside the plat, including former farm parcels dating to 1935 — one at 7392 Galena Road recorded a $409,900 sale. These offer more land and road frontage than the interior streets.
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A 1970s large-lot plat means mature tree cover and generous spacing between homes — a country feel while staying minutes from the Route 30/Orchard Road corridor.
Blackberry Oaks Golf Course — 18 public holes routed along Blackberry Creek at 2245 Kennedy Road — and Steven G. Bridge Park off Galena Road are both minutes from the neighborhood.
Well-and-septic service is common across Bristol’s unincorporated large-lot areas — confirm the utility setup on any specific listing, and we’ll order the right inspections during attorney review.
The plat fronts Galena Road, which runs east to Orchard Road and the I-88 Orchard Road interchange in about 15 minutes — with US Route 30 just north for Montgomery and Aurora errands.
Storybook Highlands is served by Yorkville Community Unit School District 115 — listing feeds for Highland Drive addresses reference Yorkville Middle School and Yorkville High School. Verify current attendance boundaries with CUSD 115 by address.
The district’s elementary campus in the Bristol village core along Cannonball Trail. Confirm the current attendance boundary with the district for any specific address.
MLS feeds for Storybook Highlands addresses on West Highland Drive reference Yorkville Middle School. Verify the assignment by address with CUSD 115.
Listing feeds for the neighborhood reference Yorkville High School, about three miles south in Yorkville. Verify current boundaries with the district.
Storybook Highlands sits south of Galena Road in northeast Bristol Township. The historic village core — post office, Bristol Grade School, Cannonball Trail — is a short drive west, Raging Waves is on Route 47 just north of the village, and downtown Yorkville is about three miles south.
Galena Road and Orchard Road reach the I-88 Orchard Road interchange in about 15 minutes; IL Route 47 on Bristol’s west side runs to the I-88 Sugar Grove interchange in roughly 12–15 minutes. US 30 and US 34 cross the township east–west.
Downtown Chicago is roughly 52 miles. The nearest Metra service is the BNSF line at the Aurora Transportation Center, about 12 miles away — roughly a 20–25 minute drive.
With about 50 homes, Storybook Highlands listings are scarce. Get real answers on recent assessor sales, utility setups, and what’s coming to market.