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

Westlynn covers a slope on the west side of Lynn Creek. Mountain Highway runs through the middle of it, from Highway 1 up to Lynn Valley Road, and the houses stand on crescents and short dead-end streets on either side. The District's street data holds 17 street names here that end in "lynn", from Airlynn Place to Viewlynn Drive.

The ground falls toward the south and toward the creek. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 136 metres above sea level for Mountain Highway at East 20th Street, 128 metres at East 18th Street and 53 metres at Arborlynn Drive, beside the highway ramps. Arborlynn Drive at Hoskins Road, on the creek side, is at 64 metres. A buyer therefore chooses between an upper part near the school and the bus, and a lower part near the creek.

In our view, Westlynn suits a buyer who wants a detached house and a yard near an elementary school, and who drives or rides the bus across the Second Narrows to work. Shops are a trip north or south along Mountain Highway. A buyer who wants cafes and restaurants on the same street will be happier beside the Lynn Valley shops or on Lonsdale.

Westlynn lies west of Lynn Creek, and the creek's name has a recorded origin. Veterans Affairs Canada says it honours John Linn, a soldier in the Royal Engineers who moved his family in 1869 to a house he had built on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, east of the creek. People often wrote the family name as Lynn, and that spelling was registered with the Government of Canada on December 7, 1937. No source we read says who chose the name Westlynn.

The houses came after the Second World War. The District's 1997 inventory of buildings from 1930 to 1965 describes Westlynn Park as a 350 acre subdivision built by N.W. Hullah Ltd., with Columbia Western Realty as the selling agent. New houses there were priced from $11,200 to $11,500, depending on the options a buyer chose. The lots were 70 feet wide and each one backed onto a strip of uncleared park land. The builder varied the colours, the position of the carport and the angle of each house on its lot. The inventory gives no year for Westlynn Park and places it among the District's postwar suburbs.

Westlynn Terrace followed in the early 1960s. The same inventory says it was built on 80 acres of forest "lying between Lynn and Browney Creeks" and had 265 houses of 1,750 to 2,600 square feet. Buyers chose a two-storey house with no basement, a bungalow over a full or part basement, or a split-level house, where the floors sit half a storey apart. There were 20 floor plans and 60 exterior styles, and prices ran from $17,500 to $23,500.

The arena on Kirkstone Road came a decade later. North Vancouver Recreation and Culture, which runs the building, says construction started in 1973 at a ceremony with Karen Magnussen, the figure skater raised in North Vancouver whose name it carries. The pool and the fitness centre were added in 1992.

The Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre on Kirkstone Road has a pool, an arena and a fitness centre. Kirkstone Park is on the same road, west of Mountain Highway. The District's park data describes it as a community sports park that is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., with field lights that go off at 11 p.m. Dogs must be on a leash there.

For groceries, residents go north or south. The map on this page shows the nearest supermarkets, Save-On-Foods and Safeway, at the Lynn Valley shops near the top of Mountain Highway. To the south, the Lynn Creek Community Recreation Centre stands at the corner of Hunter Street and Mountain Highway, in what the District calls Lynn Creek Town Centre. It opened with full hours on April 7, 2025 and has a full-size gym, a book vending machine run by the public library and 37 childcare spaces.

Mountain Highway carries the through traffic between Lynn Valley and Highway 1. The District scheduled safety work at three intersections to start on June 2, 2026: wider sidewalk corners at East 18th Street, and left turn lanes at East 20th Street and Kirkstone Road and at East 24th Street and Emery Place. It expected the work to take three months. In our experience, the crescents off the highway are quiet, and a house that fronts the highway hears the buses and the rush hour.

Lynn Creek forms the east edge of Westlynn. Lynn Canyon Park follows it south as far as Inter River Park, a large sports park on the far bank, and the park's trails are on the east side of the creek. District data allows dogs off leash and under control from Twin Falls Bridge south to Inter River Park, and requires a leash north of that bridge. OpenStreetMap shows a metal footbridge over the creek east of Arborlynn Drive that links this side to those trails.

Hastings Creek Park starts at the corner of Arborlynn Drive and Hoskins Road and runs north. Check its status before you plan a regular walk there. After more than two decades of erosion and slope failures, the District closed the central section of the trail permanently in February 2026. On June 15, 2026, council voted to stop maintaining the central and southern sections and to improve the trails in the northern section. People may still enter the closed sections at their own risk, the District says.

Small parks sit among the crescents. The map on this page lists Eastview, Briarlynn, Beaulynn, Appin, Arborlynn and Viewlynn parks close to the middle of the area. A paved and lit path for walking and cycling runs through Kirkstone Park and continues along Rufus Drive and Brooksbank Avenue to the Salop Trail. The District finished it in June 2025 as part of a cycling route between the Lynn Valley and Lynn Creek town centres.