The gated Bonita Springs community that gives you two of everything — clubhouses, pools, fitness centers — with famously reasonable fees and no golf dues. Minutes from downtown, the beach, and everywhere life happens.
Hawthorne is a gated, deed-restricted community in the heart of Bonita Springs, set at Imperial Parkway and Shangri-La Road between Old 41 and the Three Oaks corridor. Built by Centex beginning in the mid-2000s and completed by Lennar, it holds 463 residences — 307 single-family homes and 156 coach homes — arranged around eight lakes and connected by a greenbelt walkway, with two gated entrances for easy coming and going.
Hawthorne's identity in one sentence: resort-level amenities and a genuinely social neighborhood, without a golf course attached to your fees. For buyers who want the gated Bonita Springs lifestyle but not the club bill, it's one of the smartest addresses in the city — which is why homes here rarely linger.
Two of nearly everything. Hawthorne runs two clubhouses — each with a resort-style pool and spa, a fully equipped fitness center, and a community room — so amenities are never far from your door no matter which neighborhood you're in. Add tennis courts, a pickleball court, and the lakes and green space woven between the streets, and daily life here feels like a resort that happens to be quiet.
The social side is real, not brochure talk: bike groups, book clubs, cards and games, and a community calendar that keeps the clubhouses busy year-round. It's a friendly mix of year-round families, working professionals, and seasonal residents — the kind of neighborhood where the greenbelt walk turns into conversations.
Two pools with spas, two fitness centers, two community rooms — amenities close to every street.
Courts and an active players' community, without a club membership requirement.
Water views throughout, a greenbelt walkway, and mature landscaping in a fully built-out community.
This is central Bonita Springs in the truest sense. Downtown Bonita's renaissance — the Sugarshack music scene, Riverside Park, the restaurants along Old 41 — is just minutes from the gates, close enough to make a Tuesday-night concert an easy decision. Bonita Beach and Barefoot Beach Preserve sit about six miles west, Coconut Point and its shopping and dining are a short drive north, and RSW airport is roughly sixteen miles — painless for seasonal residents and visiting family alike.
Hawthorne's single-family neighborhoods — Ashmont, Chesapeake, Cobblestone, and Emory Oaks — offer homes from comfortable two- and three-bedroom layouts up to larger residences with private pools and lake views, generally ranging from around the $500,000s into the $900,000s. The coach-home enclaves, Chesapeake Cove and Hide Away Cove, provide two-story coach homes with garages and community pools, typically in the $400,000s — a low-maintenance path into the community.
Because Hawthorne is fully built out and sold out of new construction, every purchase is a resale — which means condition, upgrades, and timing matter more here than in new-build communities. We track Hawthorne inventory closely and can tell you honestly whether a listing is priced for its condition.
Hawthorne's fees are its quiet superpower — widely considered among the best values in Bonita Springs for what they include. Depending on the neighborhood, dues typically cover lawn and landscape care, irrigation, cable and internet, and the full amenity package; coach-home neighborhoods fold in even more of the exterior maintenance. And because there's no golf course, there's no club membership, no food minimums, and no assessment risk tied to course operations.
As a deed-restricted community, Hawthorne maintains standards that protect property values — and each neighborhood's association has its own specifics on leasing, pets, and vehicles. We confirm the exact fee package and rules for any home our buyers consider, before the offer is written.
Hawthorne homes move quickly and every neighborhood has its own fee package — we help buyers and sellers here get the real numbers and honest guidance before decisions get made.
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