Delbrook, North Vancouver: Homes for Sale, Prices, Schools and Daily Life

Delbrook is a residential hillside. This page covers two MLS® area names, Delbrook and Upper Delbrook. Delbrook Avenue is the main street: it starts where West Queens Road meets Westview Drive, climbs past West Windsor Road and ends near Montroyal Boulevard at the top. Short side streets and crescents branch from it, with names such as Donegal, Kerry, Shannon, Granada and Vienna.

The District groups Delbrook and Upper Delbrook with Norwood Queens, Carisbrooke and Braemar in one community. It describes that community as lying at the edge of the forest, with Upper Capilano to the west, Lynn Valley to the east and the City of North Vancouver to the south. Mosquito Creek runs through a creekside park beside the houses, and Mission Creek and Thain Creek cross the neighbourhood too. No grocery store or cafe is mapped inside the area. In our experience, that keeps the residential streets quiet through the day.

In our view, Delbrook suits a buyer who wants a detached house on a large lot, with a view or a creek trail close by, and who accepts a car or bus trip for groceries. A buyer who wants shops within a short walk will find Edgemont a better match.

The homes for sale show when Delbrook was built. On October 9, 2026, the largest group of houses had been finished before 1960, and the middle year built was 1960. The origin of the name is unconfirmed: none of the museum, heritage society and District pages read for this guide records who chose it.

The neighbourhood gave its name to a high school. The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says Delbrook High School opened in the District in 1957. The Museum and Archives of North Vancouver (MONOVA) describes it as the second public high school built in North Vancouver. A fire on January 28, 1977 ended the school's 20 years. Firefighters came from the City, the District and West Vancouver, and the museum's archives hold 21 photographs taken that day.

The school buildings stayed in public use. A North Shore News report of January 11, 1981 describes District council asking the recreation commission to run the former high school, while Capilano College rented its gymnasium. A new Delbrook Community Recreation Centre opened on June 24, 2017, according to MONOVA. The District calls the old community centre property the Delbrook Lands, and it reported in June 2023 that the buildings there had been demolished.

Deciding what to put on that land took years. CBC News reported in February 2019 that the land covers 1.7 hectares at 600 West Queens Road, and that council had rejected a four-storey rental building with a seniors' respite centre the previous November. The plan that followed has two parts. The BC government announced on March 1, 2024 that 86 affordable rental homes for seniors and families were under construction there, in a four-storey building owned and run by Hollyburn Community Housing Society. The District now lists that building as complete. A neighbourhood park on the north part of the land opened on December 2, 2025. Council named it Belhouse Park in April 2026 after Diana Belhouse, a resident who had argued for a park on the site.

Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, at 851 West Queens Road, is where much of the neighbourhood's activity happens. The North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission lists a 25 metre main pool, a leisure pool, a gymnasium marked for badminton, basketball, volleyball and pickleball, a fitness centre, two courts for squash and racquetball, a pottery studio and an arts and crafts room. Its programs include a licensed preschool.

William Griffin Park is next to the centre. The District's park data gives its hours as 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and notes that the recreation centre and the artificial turf field stay open until 11 p.m. Belhouse Park, north of West Queens Road beside Stanley Avenue, has a playground, a spray park, a small pump track for bikes, a sports court, picnic areas, washrooms and refurbished tennis courts. The District reported on October 9, 2026 that the washrooms were closed while a new floor was installed.

Shops are outside the area. No grocery store, cafe or pharmacy is mapped inside it, and the nearest library on the map is the Capilano branch of the North Vancouver District Public Library. In our experience, residents drive or take a bus to Edgemont Village or to Lonsdale Avenue for groceries. The distance table on this page gives the straight line distance to Lions Gate Hospital, Lonsdale Quay, Park Royal and downtown Vancouver.

Mosquito Creek Park follows the creek through the neighbourhood. The District classes it as a community creekside park and gives its extent as Del Rio Drive north to Skyline Drive. Its trail data rates the Mosquito Creek trail as a beginner route for walking and cycling. Measured on that data on October 10, 2026, the trail passes within 150 metres of Delbrook Avenue, Monteray Avenue, Valencia Avenue and Glencanyon Drive.

The forest trails are close to the upper streets. The same data rates the Baden-Powell Trail as intermediate for hikers and cyclists and places it within 400 metres of Newdale Court and Ventura Crescent. The Powerline trail is a beginner route, the Skyline Trail is for hiking only, and The Executioner is an advanced mountain bike trail. St. Albans Park is a forested neighbourhood park with a beginner trail of its own, entered at the end of St. Albans Avenue.

Delbrook Park, west of Delbrook Avenue at West Queens Road, is a community sports park, and the District turns its field lights off at 11 p.m. The parks list on this page also names Monteray Park, Rockland Park and Alpine Park. In our view, the creek trail is the best reason to choose Delbrook over the hillside areas beside it, because a beginner route through forest starts a short walk from many of the houses.