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

Lynnmour is the MLS® name for the land between Lynn Creek and the Seymour River, where Highway 1 reaches the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing. The District of North Vancouver calls the same community Lynn Creek. Its own description lists Seylynn, Bridgman and Inter River parks, a light industrial and commercial area, and Capilano University.

The area has two parts. Around Mountain Highway and Hunter Street, the District is building Lynn Creek Town Centre, with apartment towers, townhouses, a recreation centre and shops beside older workshops and warehouses. To the north and east, Lillooet Road runs past Inter River Park and the university to the forest. In our experience, the 1970s townhouse complexes are on that side, and detached houses are found in both parts.

Building work is part of daily life here. The District's town centre page, last edited on May 30, 2025, says council had approved 2,245 homes and 180 care beds in the town centre since 2011, including condominiums and rental apartments. The plan makes Mountain Highway between Crown Street and Hunter Street the shopping street.

In our view, Lynnmour suits a buyer who wants a newer townhouse, a bus loop within walking distance and a short drive to the bridge. A buyer who wants a quiet street of detached houses with large yards will find more of them in Westlynn or Blueridge.

The first half of the name comes from John Linn, a soldier in the Royal Engineers. Veterans Affairs Canada records that in 1869 he moved his family from New Westminster to a house he had built on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, east of the creek that now carries his name. That is the Lynnmour side of the creek. People often spelled the family name Lynn, and by 1878 the name was in use for the area.

The province adopted Lynnmour as the official name of a community on July 19, 1979, and its record places it in the District of North Vancouver. The record gives no note on where the second half of the name comes from, and no other source we read explains it.

Two public institutions here date from the decades after the Second World War. The Seylynn Community Centre in Seylynn Park was 73 years old when the District removed it in 2025. Capilano College was founded as a community college in 1968, and the province made it a university in 2008, according to a summary by BC's Degree Quality Assessment Board. The same summary calls North Vancouver the university's main campus.

The largest change began in 2011, when the District's community plan named this area one of its growth centres. The District first called the town centre Lower Lynn and now calls it Lynn Creek. Since then the province has rebuilt the three Highway 1 interchanges, a Spirit Trail bridge over Lynn Creek opened in 2023, Phibbs Exchange reopened in 2024, and a new recreation centre replaced the Seylynn building in 2025.

The Lynn Creek Community Recreation Centre on Hunter Street is the main public building. The District describes a full-size gymnasium, rooms for fitness classes and meetings, a place to pick up library books, and childcare. The nearest library branch on this page's map is Lynn Valley.

For groceries, the map shows a Real Canadian Superstore inside the area and a Save-On-Foods on the far side of Lynn Creek, beside Park and Tilford Gardens. The District says it has also approved a pharmacy, cafes, shops and a future supermarket in the town centre. The map also shows several cafes, one of them at Phibbs Exchange.

On June 29, 2026, the province announced the opening of the first student housing on Capilano University's North Vancouver campus: a six-storey building with 362 student homes and a 250-seat dining hall.

The District keeps a map of construction projects in the town centre that affect traffic, linked from its Lynn Creek Town Centre page. In our experience, the streets beside Inter River Park are quieter than the streets around Mountain Highway.

Seylynn Park and Bridgman Park lie along Lynn Creek. The District describes forest trails, playgrounds, playing fields, a skate bowl, picnic areas and open lawns in the two parks. A Spirit Trail bridge for walking and cycling opened over the creek in 2023. It links the town centre to Bridgman Park's accessible playground and to the Park and Tilford shops. Dogs must be on a leash in both parks. In spring 2026 the District tried out a fenced off-leash area for dogs in Seylynn Park, and its staff are preparing designs for the park's next stage.

Inter River Park, off Lillooet Road and the north end of Premier Street, is the large sports park. District data lists six soccer fields, four baseball diamonds and four tennis courts, and gives opening hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. A full-size artificial turf field opened there on May 1, 2026, for soccer, field hockey and youth baseball. The park also has two bike tracks. The data marks it as an off-leash park for dogs. Trails on the east bank of Lynn Creek lead north from here into Lynn Canyon Park.

Lillooet Road leads north into Metro Vancouver's Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve, a protected area of 5,668 hectares south of the Seymour Reservoir. Metro Vancouver counts over 65 kilometres of hiking trails there. The Seymour Valley Trailway is 10 kilometres of smooth pavement for cycling and walking, and the loop around Rice Lake is 2 kilometres and suits a wheelchair. Dogs are barred from both of those routes. The reserve opens at 6 a.m. and closes between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m., depending on the month, and vehicles must be out of the gate at the bottom of Lillooet Road by closing time.