Bayridge, West Vancouver: Homes for Sale, Prices, Schools and Daily Life

The West Vancouver Archives describes Bayridge as the land from Bayridge Avenue in the east to Cypress Creek in the west, and from the railway line in the south up to the Upper Levels Highway. Sandy Cove is the neighbourhood below it, between the tracks and the water.

Bayridge Avenue is the main street. It begins at the west end of Mathers Avenue, passes beside McKechnie Park and crosses the hillside to Burkehill Road. Southridge Avenue and Ripple Road climb from it to Westridge Avenue, which runs beside the highway. Short side streets such as Viewridge Place and Bayridge Court branch off.

Every street is on a slope that rises from the railway to the highway and looks south over the water. Walk or drive from the bottom of Sharon Drive up to Westridge Avenue to see how steep it is. On October 11, 2026, 71% of the listing descriptions mentioned a view.

In our view, Bayridge suits a buyer who wants a house on a large lot with a view of the water and who is content to drive for groceries. A buyer who wants level streets, sidewalks and a cafe within a short walk will be happier in Dundarave or Ambleside.

The name Bayridge came from the people who created the subdivision. The archives' record says the developers selected it on the advice of their public relations advisers, and cites a 2004 book of place names by the West Vancouver Historical Society. The record leaves the developers unnamed.

The street names date from 1957. According to the archives, Bayridge Avenue and Burkehill Road were both named under Street Naming Bylaw No. 1603 of that year. The lower part of Burkehill Road, from Marine Drive to Morgan Crescent, had been called Ferndale Avenue. It was renamed when the Burkehill subdivision was developed in the 1950s.

The highway along the top of Bayridge belongs to the same years. A car ferry began to sail from Horseshoe Bay in 1948, and Marine Drive, then the only road into the western part of the municipality, became overloaded, the archives records. The province built a new road in 1955 and 1956 across the higher ground that people already called the Upper Levels.

Houses followed in the early 1960s, and the District later recorded three of them. The Ray House on Westridge Avenue was designed in 1961 by the architect Daniel Evan White. A statement written for the District in February 2015 describes a house on three levels, built around the natural bedrock of a 23,000 square foot lot that looks south. The District added it to its Community Heritage Register on April 27, 2015. The archives also holds files on two Bayridge Avenue houses studied for the District's 1994 Survey of Significant Architecture. Hamish W.F. McIntyre designed one, built in 1962, and Fred T. Hollingsworth and Barry Downs designed the other, built in 1964. We have not checked which of these houses stand today.

Bayridge has houses, parks and bus stops. The map data on this page shows no grocery store, cafe, pharmacy or clinic inside the area. The nearest supermarket in the tables is at Caulfeild Village, the shopping centre on Headland Drive to the west, where OpenStreetMap also shows a pharmacy, a clinic and a post office.

The 253 bus links the upper streets to that shopping centre. TransLink's schedule for September 7, 2026 to January 3, 2027 gives it three to six minutes from Westridge Avenue at Southridge Avenue to the last stop, beside the shops. For Dundarave, the 250 bus on Marine Drive is given five to six minutes from Rose Crescent to 25th Street, and 16 to 17 minutes to Park Royal.

Trains pass along the bottom of the neighbourhood. Sharon Drive and Burkehill Road are the two roads from Bayridge down to Marine Drive, and each one crosses the track at a public crossing. Transport Canada's inventory of railway crossings, built from data as of December 5, 2022, lists five trains a day at both, with a top train speed of 20 miles per hour, which is 32 kilometres per hour.

Plan your walking routes. OpenStreetMap marks parts of Bayridge Avenue, Southridge Avenue, Ripple Road and Westridge Avenue as having no sidewalk, and shows one sidewalk, 604 metres long, beside Westridge Avenue, starting at the highway ramps. Walk from any house you like to its bus stop before you decide.

Westridge Park is a strip of forest between Westridge Avenue and the highway. OpenStreetMap shows dirt paths in it and two footbridges over Godman Creek. The park has been there since at least 1967: the archives holds an air photo dated to March 30 of that year whose title names it.

Godman Creek runs through the middle of Bayridge. The province's place name office adopted the name on July 28, 1945 and records that the creek flows southwest into Sandy Cove. On OpenStreetMap it passes in pipes under Westridge Avenue, Viewridge Place and Bayridge Avenue on its way down. Sharon Park is a small park on the creek at Sharon Place, above the tracks.

The beach is downhill. Sharon Drive leads across the tracks to Marine Drive, and the tables on this page list Sandy Cove Park and Sandy Cove Beach on the water side of that road. The District keeps dogs off its beaches except where a sign allows them.

For a dog that needs to run, the District's list of 14 off-leash areas includes two near Bayridge. McKechnie Park is beside the east end of Bayridge Avenue. Cypress Falls Park is a District park on Cypress Creek, north of the highway, where the District asks owners to leash dogs near fast-moving water. On OpenStreetMap, Almondel Road leads toward it under the highway bridge at Cypress Creek.