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

Gleneagles is the neighbourhood between Eagle Harbour and Horseshoe Bay. The West Vancouver Archives describes it as the area from the Upper Levels Highway in the east to Queen Charlotte Channel in the west, and from Fishermans Cove in the south to Gleneagles Elementary School in the north. On the map, Gleneagles Golf Course lies along the west side of Marine Drive for one kilometre.

The houses stand between the golf course and the sea. Gleneagles Drive curves through the southern part, near Larsen Bay. Overstone Drive, Summit Avenue, Candia Place and St. Georges Avenue are north-west of the course, and St. Georges Crescent and Eastmont Drive are on the west side, toward Kettle Point. The land is hilly. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data puts Summit Avenue higher than Marine Drive at Orchill Road, and Gleneagles Drive lower than both.

In our view, Gleneagles suits a buyer who wants a large lot on a residential street, with golf, a gym and an elementary school inside the neighbourhood. The map data on this page shows no grocery store and no cafe inside the area. A buyer who wants shops, an express bus and the ferry within a walk should compare Horseshoe Bay village, whose centre is 1.2 km from the centre of Gleneagles.

Most of today's Gleneagles was once the land of one owner. The West Vancouver Archives says Pete Larson owned District Lot 771, which ran from Eagle Island to Garrow Bay, from 1902 to 1927. His farm and orchard stood where the golf course is now. When the Pacific Great Eastern Railway arrived in 1914, its stop here was named Larsons. The Archives says the stop was likely west of today's corner of Orchill Road and Marine Drive.

The name Gleneagles arrived with the golf course. The Archives record says the developers proposed it because they wished to use the fame of the Gleneagles golf course in Scotland. A draft heritage statement dated March 2008, which the District publishes, dates the course to 1927, when it was developed as the Gleneagles Golf and Country Club. It adds that the apple trees at the sixth hole remain from Larson's estate.

The first clubhouse was still standing in 2024. In September of that year the New West Record reported that it is now a private house at 6155 Gleneagles Drive, on West Vancouver's community heritage register, and gave 1928 as the year it was built. The heritage description quoted in that article says Marine Drive had been opened as far as Whytecliff in 1926, and that the clubhouse was the first building in District Lot 771 after the land was divided into lots.

The 2008 heritage statement also records a change of owners in 1951. It says the buyers were Jewish, at a time when other private clubs refused Jewish members, and that they kept the course open to the general public. They built the Fairway Room in 1952 and the Great Hall in 1954, which form the present clubhouse together with later additions. The District of West Vancouver bought the golf course in 1959.

Two spellings of one name are in use. The province adopted the name Larsen Bay, with an e, on March 3, 1949, taking the landowner's name from land registry plans. The District writes Larson Bay Park and Larson Creek with an o.

Gleneagles Community Centre stands on Marine Drive near Orchill Road, beside the golf course. The District lists a fitness centre, an indoor cycling studio, a sports gymnasium, a pottery studio, an art studio and a coffee bar there.

The golf course is open to everyone. The District describes it as a nine-hole course, and a start time, which golfers call a tee time, must be booked before you arrive. In the copy of its page saved in February 2026, the 2025 fee for an adult was $30 from Monday to Thursday and $33 from Friday to Sunday. The clubhouse at 6190 Marine Drive holds the Orchard restaurant, which the District says opened in August 2021 with breakfast and lunch.

Young people have a park of their own. Gleneagles Adventure Park, beside the fire station, has a skateboard bowl. On February 9, 2026, council approved three pickleball courts and a street-style skateboard area there, in place of the bike terrain park, and the District expected the work to start in summer 2026 and finish in fall 2026. Ask the District whether the courts are open.

Residents leave the neighbourhood for groceries. The nearest grocery store on the map is Bay Market in Horseshoe Bay village, 1.2 km from the middle of the area. In our experience, most households drive to the Safeway at Caulfeild Village for a full shop.

Larson Bay Park is the park closest to the middle of the area, on the shore where Larson Creek reaches the sea. A District notice from 2022 lists the recent work there. BC Hydro upgraded the underground power line to Bowen Island, which passes through the park, in 2018, and that project improved the beach access and added stone steps. The West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society improved fish habitat at the mouth of the creek in 2017. The District removed the park's tennis court in February 2022, after tree roots had cracked and lifted the surface.

Seaview Walk begins across Marine Drive from the golf course, just east of Orchill Road. The District rates it easy, gives its length as 4 km there and back, and says it suits wheelchairs and has benches along the way. OpenStreetMap marks the path as the route of the former Pacific Great Eastern railway line, and trains now pass through a tunnel more than a kilometre east of the middle of Gleneagles. Pay parking applies at Seaview Walk all year, and the District's page, as saved in August 2025, says a West Vancouver resident can apply for a yearly pass at no cost.

The map on this page also marks Garrow Bay Park and Batchelor Bay Park on the shore to the north, Tall Trees Park in the south and Tantalus Park toward Horseshoe Bay. Whytecliff Park, the waterfront park in the photo above, is less than a kilometre north-west of the middle of the area.