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

The area takes its name from the District park at its centre. Princess Avenue runs north from East 29th Street, passes the west side of the park and ends at East Braemar Road. Many streets beside it carry royal names: Regent Avenue, Royal Avenue, Duchess Avenue, Regal Crescent, East Kings Road, East Queens Road and East Windsor Road. East of the park, Frederick Road and Hendecourt Road lead toward Argyle Secondary and Lynn Valley.

The streets stand higher than both of the shopping streets a resident uses. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 204 metres above sea level for Princess Avenue at East 29th Street, 226 metres at East Kings Road, 236 metres at Wellington Drive and 274 metres at East Braemar Road. Lonsdale Avenue at East 29th Street is at 161 metres, and Lynn Valley Road at East 29th Street is at 143 metres. Errands start downhill in either direction, and the trip home is a climb.

Princess Park is a small area, and few homes are listed here at one time. In our view, it suits a buyer who wants a detached house on a quiet street with a forest park a short walk away. The map on this page shows no grocery store, cafe or pharmacy inside the area. A buyer who wants more homes to compare should also open the Upper Lonsdale and Lynn Valley pages, which list more.

The park began as a work site. A North Shore News history column from June 8, 2025 says Hastings Creek was dammed here in the early 1900s to hold shingle bolts, the blocks of cedar that mills cut into roof shingles. People also swam in the pond. The column says records call it Urquhart's Swimming Pool, Holtzman's Pond and Prince's Pond.

In 1941 the dam was rebuilt and resurfaced to make the swimming area larger, and the pool was named Princess Pool. The same column says the Vancouver Sun newspaper paid for children's summer swimming classes there through the 1940s. The pool had closed by the early 1970s because of pollution. That 1941 pool is the earliest use of the name Princess that we found in a source.

The oldest houses nearby that we found a record of date from the years after the Second World War. The District's 1997 inventory of buildings from 1930 to 1965 lists two houses on streets in or beside the area. One, on Connaught Avenue, dates from 1949 and was drawn by the architects Sharp and Thompson, Berwick, Pratt. The other, on Regent Avenue, dates from 1956 and was designed by the Lewis Construction Company. The inventory describes both as post-and-beam houses, a style that leaves the wooden frame of the house in view. On October 11, 2026, every home listed here had been built in the 1960s or the 1970s.

Residents shop in two directions. The nearest supermarket on the map is Safeway at the Lynn Valley shops, east along East 29th Street and Lynn Valley Road. The Lynn Valley branch of the North Vancouver District Public Library and the Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre are on that side too. Lonsdale Avenue is the other choice, to the west and down the hill, and Lions Gate Hospital is in Central Lonsdale.

In our experience, most households here keep a car and use it for the weekly shopping, because the walk home from either shopping street is uphill.

In our experience, the park is where neighbours meet. The District's park data records a playground, a picnic shelter, seven picnic tables, two tennis courts, washrooms and a parking area at Princess Park. The park is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., and the District notes that the gates close at dusk in winter.

Princess Park lies off Wellington Drive and Princess Avenue, and the District classes it as a neighbourhood forest park. Its map data gives the park 16.7 hectares and records five bridges inside it. Hastings Creek flows through the middle. The District's creek data marks the creek as fish bearing, and minutes of the District's parks committee from February 19, 2025 call it one of six streams that feed Lynn Creek, with coho salmon and steelhead trout among its fish.

The District's guide for dog walkers lists Princess Park among its parks with off-leash trails. A dog off the leash must stay in sight and obey your voice commands. The District asks owners to keep dogs out of creeks, playgrounds, picnic areas and tennis courts, and to bring no more than three dogs at one time.

Two smaller parks are close. Hunter Park, entered from Chaucer Avenue, is 4.1 hectares of forest where dogs may also be off the leash. Braemar Park, off East Braemar Road, is 4.6 hectares, and dogs must be on a leash there. Hastings Creek continues east into Lynn Valley, where the District has permanently closed part of the creek trail, so read its Hastings Creek Trail page before you walk downstream.

Mount Fromme rises north of the area, and the photo at the top of this page was taken on Upper Griffen, one of its trails. The District's trail data rates Upper Griffen intermediate for walking and for cycling. The District runs a parking lot on the mountain and posts its closing hours on its trails page.