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Menlo Park, Pretoria — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Menlo Park is an upmarket Pretoria suburb bordering Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Lynnwood, first established between the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Where to stay in Menlo Park
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
PretoriaSouth Africathe neighbouring Old East suburb when Menlo Park has nothing freeLynnwood
Lynnwood borders Menlo Park on the same Pretoria roll, which puts the two inside one band of upmarket suburbs the record groups as the Old East.Lynnwood →Few places to stay in Menlo Park — most visitors book in Pretoria nearby.
About Menlo Park
What are the main landmarks in Menlo Park?
No landmark is entered here. What the record gives Menlo Park instead is a position, an upmarket suburb pressed against Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Lynnwood inside the band of Pretoria districts known as the Old East. Its houses are counted among the most valuable in the city.
Named ground has to be looked for outside the suburb, in Pretoria proper or across the neighbouring boundaries.
What is the history of Menlo Park?
The suburb arrived mid-century. Menlo Park was first established between the 1950s and the 1960s, when it stood as the most eastern suburb of Pretoria, before the city expanded considerably eastwards past it. That expansion left Menlo Park among the inner suburbs of a wider east, grouped with Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Lynnwood under the name Old East.
The houses there rank among the city's most valuable.
Where is Menlo Park?
Menlo Park sits among the upmarket Pretoria suburbs of the Old East, sharing boundaries with Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Lynnwood.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Menlo Park?
Menlo Park: a residential base in the Old East, between the Waterkloof and Lynnwood boundaries. Lynnwood: the neighbouring Old East suburb when Menlo Park has nothing free.
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Updated September 2026