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

Indian River lies north of Mount Seymour Parkway and east of Mount Seymour Road. The Parkgate shops are at its southwest corner, the village of Deep Cove is to the east, and the forest of Mount Seymour rises behind the last row of homes.

Two streets carry the traffic inside the neighbourhood. Indian River Drive runs east from Mount Seymour Road, passes Dorothy Lynas Elementary at Inlet Crescent and then bends northeast. Indian River Crescent leaves it there and climbs to the forest, where the District's street data shows the drive starting again and running on toward the shore of Indian Arm. Short streets with no exit branch off both, among them Cascade Court, Lighthall Court, Frames Place and Hixon Place. South of the school, Brockton Crescent and Beaufort Road join the Parkway.

The ground rises from south to north. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 90 metres above sea level for the Parkway at Beaufort Road, 105 metres for the Parkway at Mount Seymour Road, 124 metres for Indian River Drive at Inlet Crescent and 171 metres for the top of Indian River Crescent.

In our view, Indian River suits a buyer who wants three or four bedrooms on a quiet street, a school the children can walk to and the forest close by. All the shops are in one place, at Parkgate. A buyer who wants to walk to many restaurants or to the SeaBus should look near Lonsdale Quay.

The neighbourhood shares its name with Indian River Drive. The Indian River itself is a separate place. The province's place name office records it as a river that flows south into Indian Arm, northeast of the District, and gives December 9, 1921 as the date the name was adopted. Its mouth is 17.6 kilometres in a straight line from the middle of this neighbourhood, and 14.4 kilometres from the point where the District's street data ends the drive. No source we read says who chose the name for the road or for the neighbourhood.

The homes for sale date from the 1980s and 1990s: every home this page listed on October 11, 2026 was finished in one of those two decades. In September 1988 the North Shore News reported that the school board had seen the drawings for a new elementary school in what the paper called the District's Indian River Road area. The plans showed 13 classrooms for 400 elementary students and 50 kindergarten children. Trustee Anne Macdonald said that four subdivisions were being planned in the area.

The school took the name of Dorothy Lynas. Her obituary in the same paper, in September 1997, says she was first elected to the North Vancouver school board in 1956 and served for the next 30 years, and that the district dedicated the new school to her in September 1990.

New families arrived faster than the school could hold them. In February 1992 the paper reported that Dorothy Lynas Elementary had filled its 400 places as soon as it opened in 1990. By that month it had 527 students and five portable classrooms, and a parents' group had asked District council to stop approving more housing in the Indian River area.

People here shop at Parkgate, where the Parkway meets Mount Seymour Road. A Safeway, cafes, a library and a community centre are marked there on the map on this page. Measured along the centre lines of Indian River Drive and Mount Seymour Road in the District's street data, the corner of Inlet Crescent and Indian River Drive is 1,037 metres from the Parkway, and the walk goes down 19 metres. The 215 bus is given two minutes for the same trip.

Parkgate Library, at 3675 Banff Court, is a branch of the North Vancouver District Public Library. Its page lists public computers, self-service printing and copying, meeting rooms to rent and an outdoor book drop that is open at all hours.

Parkgate Community Centre is at 3625 Banff Court. North Vancouver Recreation and Culture gives fitness centre hours that start at 6 a.m. from Monday to Friday and at 8 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and lists three volleyball courts in the gymnasium.

In our experience, the courts and places here are quiet, and Indian River Drive and the Parkway carry the through traffic.

Indian River Park is in the middle of the neighbourhood. The District's park data lists it as a neighbourhood park entered from the end of Inlet Crescent, and dogs must be on a leash there. The same data shows Cove Forest, a forested District park, within 50 metres of the top of Indian River Crescent.

The forest trails pass close to the upper streets. The District's trail data places the Old Buck trail within 300 metres of the top of Indian River Crescent and the Bridle Path within 500 metres. The Baden Powell Trail passes within one kilometre. These are straight-line distances, so look at a trail map for the path that joins your street to each trail.

Old Buck leads into Mount Seymour Park, which BC Parks manages. The photo at the top of this page shows a trail in the park's forest. BC Parks allows horses on the Old Buck Trail between the Old Buck and Historic Mushroom parking lots, and advises against riding there because many mountain bikers use the trail. Bikes, electric ones included, must stay on the trails signed for mountain biking, and BC Parks fines riders who leave them.

Expect wildlife. BC Parks says coyotes and deer are often seen close to the park's access road, and that black bears, bobcats and cougars may be seen in the backcountry. Pets must be on a leash throughout the park.