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

Forest Hills covers a slope between two creek ravines. Mackay Creek runs down the west side, beyond Lions Avenue, and Mosquito Creek runs down the east side, beyond Skyline Drive. Highland Boulevard climbs through the middle from Edgemont Village. Short roads with English names meet it: Wentworth, Wavertree, Beaconsfield, Hampshire, Devon, Essex and Tudor.

The land rises toward the north and rises faster toward the east. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 146 metres above sea level for Highland Boulevard at Wentworth Avenue and 163 metres at Tudor Avenue. Tudor Avenue itself climbs from 152 metres at Lions Avenue to 198 metres at Skyline Drive. On October 11, 2026, 60% of listing descriptions here mentioned a view.

The map on this page shows no grocery store, cafe, pharmacy or clinic inside Forest Hills. In our view, the area suits a buyer who wants a large house on a quiet street and is happy to walk, ride or drive down to Edgemont Village for errands. A buyer who wants shops on the next block, or a SeaBus terminal close to home, will be happier near Lonsdale Avenue.

Forest Hills started as a subdivision in the 1950s, and its sales booklet still exists. In an article from September 3, 2025, the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society describes a plan book of 36 pages with 31 house designs. The society places the subdivision between Mackay and Mosquito creeks, north of Delbrook and east of Edgemont Village. It quotes the booklet's own words: "A Beautiful and Modern Subdivision on the Southern Slope of the Foothills of the North Shore". The society later gave the booklet to the archives at MONOVA, North Vancouver's museum and archives.

All 31 designs were built as show homes, so that visitors could tour them in one trip. The society says the event became known as the "Homes on Parade". Nineteen contractors built the houses, and a full set of plans for any design cost $25. The society compared each address with BC Assessment records and found that most show homes date from 1953 and 1954, and that other houses in the neighbourhood followed from 1955 to 1958. Its article includes show homes on Canterbury Crescent, Chelsea Crescent, Ranger Crescent and Highland Boulevard. When it was published, 20 of the 31 were still standing.

The society describes the houses as ranchers and split-level homes with wide fronts, often with an attached carport, and roomier than the small bungalows of the war years. A rancher has all its rooms on one floor, and a split-level has floors half a storey apart. The society adds that the show homes were all built above ground because of the streams that run between the two creeks.

The District of North Vancouver's 1997 inventory of buildings from 1930 to 1965 names Forest Hills as one of its postwar subdivisions, close to Capilano Highlands, the subdivision with Edgemont Village at its centre. It says Fred Hollingsworth designed a number of houses in the area, among them his standard "Neoteric" and "Flying Arrow" plans. The Canadian Encyclopedia records Hollingsworth as an architect who was born in England in 1917 and died in North Vancouver in 2015. The inventory also lists a house on Skyline Drive, built in 1950 and 1951, that the magazine Western Homes & Living placed in "Forest Hills" in September 1954.

Most errands mean a trip down Highland Boulevard. Measured along the District's street lines, the corner of Highland Boulevard and Edgemont Boulevard, in the middle of Edgemont Village, is 1.2 km from Beaconsfield Road and 1.6 km from Tudor Avenue. The District lists a grocery store, pharmacies, banks, coffee shops and restaurants in the village, and the map on this page names Thrifty Foods as the nearest supermarket. The road drops 56 metres between Beaconsfield Road and the village corner, so the walk home with groceries is uphill all the way.

The Capilano Library, a branch of the North Vancouver District Public Library, is on the same street at 3045 Highland Boulevard. Its page lists free underground parking and opening hours to 8 p.m. from Tuesday to Thursday. Delbrook Community Recreation Centre is the nearest public recreation centre on the map. The table on this page gives the straight line distance to both.

The society's writer toured the streets for the 2025 article and noted few fences and almost no passing cars. In our experience, Highland Boulevard is the one busy street, because it carries the bus and the traffic to Canyon Heights Elementary.

Forested ravines border Forest Hills on both sides. Upper Mackay Creek Park, on the west, is a forested park that the District's park data says is entered from the cul-de-sacs along the creek. Mosquito Creek Park, on the east, follows its creek from Del Rio Drive north to Skyline Drive. District data allows dogs off leash in both parks.

The District's trail data rates the Mackay Creek and Mosquito Creek trails as beginner routes for walking and cycling. The same data rates the Baden-Powell Trail, which passes within 1.5 km of the middle of Forest Hills, as intermediate.

Eldon Park, on Sunset Boulevard west of Forest Hills, is the nearest park that District data calls a sports park. The data gives its hours as 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. and requires dogs to be on a leash there. Smaller creeks run between the two ravines as well. The District's drainage data names one of them Emsley Creek and marks it as fish-bearing where it passes near Lions Avenue, Beaconsfield Road and Wavertree Road.