Hillsborough Airport Limo & Executive Black SUV Car Service Serving SFO, OAK & SJC

Our Airport Limo and Black SUV Service for Hillsborough

Airport Commuter has been providing SAFE, DEPENDABLE Black SUV car service for Hillsborough estate owners since 1986. SFO is a 10-15 minute run from most Hillsborough addresses, OAK is 30 minutes, SJC is 35 minutes. Flat rates on every combination. Our Hillsborough accounts tend to stick with the same driver for decades — several of our senior chauffeurs have been running Hillsborough pickups since the 1990s.

About Hillsborough. Hillsborough (population ~11,400, incorporated 1910) is one of the most exclusive residential enclaves in the country — Bloomberg ranked Hillsborough #3 on its 2020 Richest Places in America index, behind only neighboring Atherton (#1) and Scarsdale NY (#2). Three of the top 5 wealthiest places in America are Bay Area towns we pick up in daily. Hillsborough has no commercial zoning, no apartments, no traffic lights on most of its main arteries, and a minimum one-acre lot requirement that has kept its oak-and-redwood residential character for over a century. Named after Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, and originally a private rail stop for San Francisco merchants building country estates. Famous past residents include Shirley Temple, Bing Crosby, and a long list of tech and finance CEOs who chose Hillsborough precisely because you can't see most of the houses from the road.

Hillsborough's famous mansions. Hillsborough is home to some of the most extraordinary private estates in California. Carolands Chateau on Remillard Drive is the best known — a 65,000-square-foot, 98-room Beaux-Arts palace begun in 1914 for Harriett Pullman Carolan, heir to the Pullman railway fortune. Designed by Paris architect Ernest Sanson in the model of Vaux-le-Vicomte, with grounds laid out by Achille Duchêne and local execution by San Francisco's Willis Polk. Carolands is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the nonprofit that owns it now opens it for public tours. The U.S. government twice considered buying Carolands as a “Western White House” — once in 1939 and again during the Kennedy administration. The "Uplands" estate (William H. Crocker's 1913 Willis Polk-designed mansion) is now the campus of Crystal Springs Uplands School. And yes — the famous Flintstone House (the purple-and-orange 1976 Flintstones-themed landmark visible from I-280) is in Hillsborough. Nothing else in the Bay Area looks remotely like it.

Big Hillsborough sales our drivers have watched happen. In 2021, Elon Musk sold his Hillsborough estate at 891 Crystal Springs Road — the historic De Guigne Estate — for \$30 million. Musk had bought the 47.5-acre property (with its 16,000 sq ft French-chateau mansion) for \$23.4M in 2017. The \$30M close was the second-highest sale in Hillsborough history, behind only 835 Chiltern at \$37.5M in 2000. Most of our long-term Hillsborough accounts have either bought or sold nine-figure or high-eight-figure homes in the decades we've served the town.

Other landmarks our drivers know. Burlingame Country Club (1893, on the Hillsborough/Burlingame line), the annual Hillsborough Concours d'Elegance classic-car show, and the Hillsborough Racquet Club. Major streets we navigate: Crystal Springs Road, Black Mountain Road, Hillsborough Boulevard, Skyline Boulevard, El Cerrito Avenue, Ralston Avenue, the estate-lined Santa Inez Avenue, and the winding roads around Tobin Clark Drive.

Schools. The Hillsborough City School District (K-8, ~1,600 students) is one of the highest-performing public elementary districts in California — North Hillsborough Elementary, West Hillsborough Elementary, South Hillsborough Elementary, and Crocker Middle School. Hillsborough has no high school of its own; students feed into San Mateo Union High School District (typically Burlingame HS or Aragon HS). Nueva School (private, PreK-12, innovative curriculum) is on Hillsborough's Bay Meadows-era Crocker Mansion campus. Crystal Springs Uplands private school is adjacent.

Hospitals. Mills-Peninsula Medical Center is 5-10 minutes north in Burlingame — Sutter Health's Peninsula flagship, Level II trauma. Stanford Hospital is 20 minutes south. UCSF Parnassus / Mission Bay is 25 minutes north. Our drivers run regular medical-appointment transports for Hillsborough residents, particularly recurring specialty-care runs to Stanford and UCSF.

Parks and nature. Hillsborough's private character means fewer public parks, but the town's real backyard is extraordinary: Crystal Springs Reservoir (part of the SFPUC watershed, with the 6-mile Sawyer Camp Trail for walkers and cyclists), Huddart Park (975 acres of redwoods, hiking, equestrian trails), and Crystal Springs Regional Trail. Vista Park and the Hillsborough Recreation Center serve residents in town.

Neighborhoods we serve throughout Hillsborough. Upper Hillsborough (the estate section around Tobin Clark Drive and Black Mountain Road), Lower Hillsborough, El Cerrito / El Arroyo, Skyline, Crystal Springs, Ralston Ranch, and the Hillsborough Oaks / Hillsborough Park areas.

Airport drive times from Hillsborough. SFO: 10-15 minutes (7-9 miles, via 280 north or El Camino + 101). OAK: 30-35 minutes (20 miles, via San Mateo Bridge). SJC: 30-40 minutes (23 miles, via 280 or 101 south). Downtown San Francisco: about 25 minutes north via I-280.

Why Hillsborough residents call us. Same reason they chose Hillsborough — discretion and consistency. We run black, unmarked, late-model executive vehicles. Your driver texts before arrival rather than ringing the gate at 4 AM. Most of our Hillsborough clients book the same two-to-three chauffeurs by name, and those are drivers who have been with us 15-30 years.

Beyond the airport, we run Hillsborough-to-Napa / Sonoma wine-country day trips, Carolands and Filoli private garden events, Burlingame Country Club functions, Stanford Hospital medical transports, SFO/San Carlos/Hayward private-aviation transfers, wedding and funeral transport, and long-term corporate executive accounts. 24/7 dispatch. Radio-dispatched GPS fleet. Since 1986.

For estate & private-travel clients: our Private Aviation hub (SFO / SJC / San Carlos / Hayward FBOs), the Luxury Hotel & Resort directory, the Wedding Venues hub, and our Wine Country and Coast Resort tour hubs.

Hillsborough by the numbers. Hillsborough is one of the wealthiest towns in America — an all-residential community of large estates with a median home value around $6 million and no commercial district by design. It is also one of the safest places in the state, safer than roughly 96% of California cities, with its own police force for a town of about 11,000. The public schools (North, South, and West Elementary and Crocker Middle) are top-rated K-8; for high school, families choose elite privates like Crystal Springs Uplands School (a Wall Street Journal top-50 feeder to elite universities) and Nueva, or nearby Burlingame and San Mateo High. Discreet, professional black-car service on standing estate accounts is the norm here — SFO is just 10-15 minutes away.