Carmel Valley Village is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. In 1946, Byington Ford and Tirey L. Ford Jr. developed the Carmel Valley Village, which included an airpark, shops, and homes.^: p4 At the era of the 2020 census the CDP population was 4,524, up from 4,407 at the 2010 census. In November 2009, a majority of residents voted adjoining incorporation.

The Rancho Los Laureles, a 6,625-acre (26.81 km) Mexican land assent in present-day Monterey County, was final in 1839 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to José Manuel Boronda and Vicente Blas Martínez. The grant lengthy along the Carmel River and the Carmel Valley, and encompassed present-day Carmel Valley Village. In 1882, the Pacific Improvement Company (PIC) purchased the Rancho Los Laureles. In 1916, Samuel F.B. Morse became the manager of the PIC; his job was to liquidate the PIC holdings (10,000 acres (4,000 ha)). In 1919, Morse formed the Del Monte Properties and acquired PIC. In 1923, the Del Monte Properties separated the land into 11 parcels. Marion Hollins bought 2,000 acres (800 ha). In 1926, developer Frank B. Porter bought 600 acres (240 ha). He far along acquired a part of the Hollins ranch and sold it to Byington Ford. Ford and his wife Marion used 400 acres (160 ha) as a summer ranch and named it Moon Trail Ranch. It was located at Via Las Encinas in Carmel Valley.

In 1946, Byington Ford and his brother, Tirey Ford Jr., developed the “Airway Village” that years forward-thinking was renamed the Carmel Valley Village. It included an Airway Market. By 1947, the Airway General Store, barbershop, drug store (with soda fountain), beauty shop, Stirrup Cup bar, and the Grapevine liquor growth had been built. All were in walking disaffect of the Airpark and decked to resemble a Mexican village. Artist Bruce Ariss painted murals on each amassing to resemble a Spanish village.

Ford and his brother developed the Carmel Valley Airfield for pilot-owners who would desire to be “at house a minute or two after getting out of their planes.” His brother Tirey built a prototype hangar house off Ford Road at the west fade away of the landing field to help as an example for the airborne community of the future. Following World War II it became apparent that there would not be a aircraft in every garage, so Ford had to familiarize his enterprise, combining sales to plane owners in the same way as sales to home seekers. He enjoyed a brisk trade. Only two genuine hangar houses were ever built at Carmel Valley Airfield: Tirey’s (which vanguard burned), and one other, on the north side of the landing field which was dismantled. Non-pilots bought occurring many of the runway Airpark sites, and to conflict their many tastes Byington created ranch-house sites of 1 to 3 acres (0.40 to 1.21 ha) and envisioned hillside homes where residents could look down upon incoming planes. During World War II, the runway served as an alternative landing field for military planes above ground out of Watsonville and King City. A clubhouse built for the Airpark progressive became an integral share of the Village’s Blue Sky Lodge, which is still in operation today.