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

Edgemont is the residential area around Edgemont Village, in the northwest part of the District of North Vancouver. The District describes the village as the commercial and community centre of Upper Capilano, the part of the District on the slopes below Grouse Mountain. Edgemont Boulevard and Highland Boulevard meet in the middle of the village, and the District's plan treats those two streets as its centre.

The shops fill a few short blocks. The District lists coffee shops, restaurants, banks, pharmacies, a grocery store, flower shops, health services, childcare, a dance studio and a library. Its plan aims to keep the buildings low and the stores small. Curved residential streets lead away from the shops, most of them lined with detached houses. The plan allows townhouses and duplex homes on the blocks around the edge of the village, and this page lists new homes of both kinds.

In our view, Edgemont suits a buyer who wants to do daily errands on foot and come home to a quiet street. A supermarket, a library and several cafes stand within a few blocks of each other, and forest trails are close to many houses. A buyer who wants a SeaBus terminal near home will find Lower Lonsdale a better match, because public transit in Edgemont means two bus routes.

The District of North Vancouver acknowledges that it stands on the unceded ancestral territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples. The neighbourhood that buyers see today dates from the years after the Second World War. In an article from April 2026, the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society says the land company behind it began in 1938 as Ridgewood Estates. The Lions Gate Bridge opened that same year and gave the North Shore a direct road to Vancouver. The war began in 1939 and the project stopped.

After the war, the society says, a realtor and developer named John Eric Allan, who had served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, opened the land for sale as Capilano Highlands. In the late 1940s his firm, Service Realty, worked from a log cabin office at Ridgewood Drive and Edgemont Boulevard. Forest lots sold for less than $1,000 each. The streets were drawn to follow the slope of the land, which is why they curve. The society adds that there were no sidewalks, no corner stores and no buses at first, so residents drove to a small group of shops, and that group became known as Edgemont Village.

Allan worked with the architect Fred Thornton Hollingsworth on modern houses that middle-income families could afford, according to the society, with model names such as the Neoteric and the Flying Arrow. The Canadian Encyclopedia says Hollingsworth gave the name Neoteric to his early houses and that more than 50 of them were built in the Capilano subdivision of North Vancouver. Some of the houses for sale in Edgemont today were finished before 1960, during that first period.

The village itself grew without one plan. By the society's account, shops were open before the sewers and roads were built in 1956, and the Capilano branch of the public library opened in 1964 and was enlarged in 1969 and in 1985. A supermarket on Connaught Crescent closed in 2013, and a building with condos, townhouses, shops and a new supermarket opened in that part of the village in 2019. The District prepared its present plan and design guidelines for the village after public meetings in 2013 and 2014.

Most errands can be done in the village. Thrifty Foods is the grocery store on the map, and the District names pharmacies, banks, health services and childcare among the businesses. The counts on this page show how many cafes, pharmacies and clinics are mapped inside the area. In our experience, residents shop in the village on foot and drive to Park Royal or to Marine Drive for larger stores.

The Capilano Library, a branch of the North Vancouver District Public Library, is at 3045 Highland Boulevard. The library's page lists areas for children and teens, public computers, a meeting room for rent and free underground parking. It opens at 10 a.m. every day. It closes at 8 p.m. from Tuesday to Thursday and at 6 p.m. on the other four days.

The nearest public recreation centre is Delbrook Community Recreation Centre at 851 West Queens Road, the road that leaves the south end of the village toward Lonsdale. The North Vancouver Recreation and Culture Commission lists a 25 metre pool with six lanes, a leisure pool, a fitness centre, a gymnasium and two courts for squash or racquetball. Lions Gate Hospital is in Central Lonsdale. The distance table on this page gives the straight line distance to the hospital, Park Royal, Lonsdale Quay and downtown Vancouver.

The village keeps changing. The District announced a one-year trial of a four-way stop at Edgemont Boulevard and Highland Boulevard. It had counted more than 500 pedestrians and 700 vehicles at that corner in the busiest hour of the day, and 30 crashes from 2019 to 2023. District records also show a first-stage application, received on April 10, 2026, for a three storey commercial building at 3150 Edgemont Boulevard. In our view, a buyer should expect building work near the shops in the coming years.

Murdo Frazer Park is southwest of the village. The District's park data gives the entrance as Elizabeth Way and the hours as 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., with closing at dusk in winter, and it lists a fenced area where dogs may run off leash. The photo at the top of this page shows the log cabin beside the pond in the park. Beside the park, the Murdo Frazer Pitch and Putt is a short golf course with nine holes, reached from Woods Drive. The District lists it as open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and closed from November to March.

Creeks cross Edgemont in wooded ravines. The District's trail data rates the Mackay Creek trail and the trail in Murdo Frazer Park as beginner routes for walking and cycling. Upper Mackay Creek Park is a forested park entered from the ends of the streets beside the creek, and the District marks it as off leash for dogs. Fairmont Park, off the 3100 block of Fairmont Road, is a neighbourhood park. Eldon Park, to the north, is a sports park that opens at 6 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m.

Capilano River Regional Park lies northwest of Edgemont, around the Cleveland Dam. Metro Vancouver, which runs the park, describes a river canyon, forest and views of Capilano Lake and the Lions. Its Coho Loop Trail is a 1 km loop that starts near the Capilano River Hatchery and crosses two bridges. The Capilano Pacific Trail runs from near the dam to near the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Two notices were posted on October 10, 2026. The hatchery closed to the public on October 1 for building work, and one section of the Capilano Pacific Trail is shut while a bridge is built. Metro Vancouver says bears, cougars and coyotes live in the park, so keep food and garbage with you.