Red Mountain Ranch · Mesa, AZ · Neighborhood Update 2026

Red Mountain Ranch Is Getting a 12 Foot Path Down Power Road, and a Signal Nobody Is Talking About

A mile and a half of new pavement, a new crossing at Redmont, and what it does to the walk out your front gate.

The City of Mesa is building a shared use path along Power Road, and if you live in Red Mountain Ranch it runs right past your western edge. Most people I talk to in the neighborhood have noticed the construction and have no idea what it is going to be when it is finished.

It is not a sidewalk widening. It is a genuinely different piece of infrastructure, and there is one detail in the city’s own project description that tells you how they are thinking about it.

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What Is Actually Being Built

The project is the Red Mountain Shared Use Path, city project CP0733. It runs along the east side of Power Road, from the State Route 202 Park and Ride north to the Mesa city limit. That is one and a half miles.

Here is the detail worth pausing on. The path is twelve feet wide, and the city says plainly why: it serves as both the sidewalk and the shared use path, so it has to accommodate users moving at very different speeds. A standard residential sidewalk is four or five feet. This is roughly the width of a traffic lane, poured for pedestrians.

Twelve feet is what you build when you expect a jogger, a stroller, a dog walker and somebody on an e-bike to pass each other without anybody stepping into the dirt. It is a design decision about volume, and it tells you the city expects this corridor to be used.

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The Signal at Redmont Is the Part That Matters

Buried in the project description is a signalized crossing at Power Road and Redmont Drive, providing access to the path.

If you live in Red Mountain Ranch, you already know what Power Road is like on foot. It is a major arterial. Crossing it without a signal is not something most people do twice. A signalized crossing at Redmont is the difference between a path that exists on the other side of a road and a path you can actually get to.

The city also lists traffic equipment going in at the Thomas Road and Loop 202 crossings. So the corridor is being treated as a connected route rather than a strip of concrete, which is the thing that usually determines whether a path like this gets used or ignored.

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The Timeline, and Where It Should Be Now

This has been a long time coming. Design began in the summer of 2022. A virtual public meeting was held in April 2023. Construction did not start until May 2025.

The city’s published phases run like this:

• Fall and winter 2025. Demolition, utility installation, paving the path up to Eagle Crest Drive, and installing concrete and traffic equipment at the Redmont Drive, Thomas Road and Loop 202 crossings.
• Winter 2025 into spring 2026. Demolition and site preparation for the Park and Ride portion.
• Summer 2026. Paving the remaining path, median concrete work, landscaping and plant restoration.

The project page lists the schedule as May 2025 to May 2026, while the description says completion is expected by summer 2026. Those do not quite agree, which is normal for a public works page that gets updated in pieces. Either way, we are past both dates as I write this, so the honest answer is that it should be finished or very close. If you want the current status rather than the plan, the city page is the place to check.

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What This Does for Red Mountain Ranch

I want to be careful here, because this is where real estate writing usually goes soft and starts promising things.

A path does not move your home value on its own. I have no data showing what this specific project does to prices in Red Mountain Ranch, and anyone who tells you they do is guessing. What I can tell you is what it changes about living here, because that is observable.

It gives you a mile and a half of continuous, wide, paved surface along a corridor where walking previously meant a narrow sidewalk beside fast traffic. It connects north toward the city limit and south to a Park and Ride, which is a transit connection rather than just a loop. And the signal at Redmont means residents on the Red Mountain Ranch side can reach it on purpose instead of driving somewhere to walk.

For an established community built around a golf course, where a lot of the appeal is that everything is already grown in, and which I have written about in more depth here, an amenity that arrives after the fact is unusual. Most of what happens near a mature neighborhood is development that adds traffic. This adds a way to get out of your car.

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If You Are Buying Into Red Mountain Ranch

Two things worth doing, and neither takes long.

• Drive Power Road and look at the east side. You will see whether the path is finished, and you will see how a given street in the neighborhood actually connects to it. Proximity to the Redmont signal is not the same as proximity to the path.
• Ask what else is planned on that corridor. A path is one line item. Mesa publishes its capital projects, and it is worth knowing what else is scheduled near a home before you buy it rather than after. I track this kind of thing in my neighborhood updates.

And if you are selling in Red Mountain Ranch, this is a real thing to be able to describe accurately. Not as a value claim, but as an answer to the question buyers relocating here always ask, which is some version of: what is there to do outside the car?

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If you want to talk through what is happening on your specific street in Red Mountain Ranch, or what comparable sales nearby actually look like right now, send me your address and we can go through it together.

Project details are from the City of Mesa’s own page for the Red Mountain Shared Use Path, CP0733, as of the publication date shown at the top. Public works schedules move. Check the city page for current status before relying on any date here.