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

Panorama Village is the name MLS® listings use for the homes along Folkestone Way, north of the Upper Levels Highway (Highway 1) in West Vancouver. Folkestone Way starts at Skilift Road, beside the highway, and winds uphill for 1.5 kilometres to Chippendale Road. The West Vancouver Archives use a shorter name, Panorama, for the neighbourhood that reaches from McDonald Creek in the east to Marr Creek in the west, and from the highway up to Chippendale Road.

The street climbs the whole way. Natural Resources Canada's elevation data gives 198 metres above sea level where Folkestone Way leaves Skilift Road, 256 metres at the bend where the Marr Creek Trail meets the street, and 308 metres at the bus stop near Chippendale Road. The European Copernicus model, a second dataset, differs by 4 metres or less at each point. The top of the street is therefore 110 metres higher than the bottom.

The homes stand in strata complexes on both sides of the street. OpenStreetMap draws 1.8 kilometres of side roads and driveways that share the name Folkestone Way and lead from the main street to the buildings. It also draws four short lanes named Binning, Carr, Shadbolt and Varley.

The area is residential. The map data on this page counts no grocery store, cafe, pharmacy or clinic inside it. In our view, Panorama Village suits a buyer who wants a wide view from a townhouse or an apartment and accepts that each errand starts in a car or on a bus that comes once an hour. If you want shops near your front door, look at Dundarave village first.

The name is older than the homes. The West Vancouver Archives record that the Panorama neighbourhood is named for Panorama Estates Ltd., a company that began to develop land here in 1960. The Archives give the council minutes of September 26, 1960 as the source.

The plan for Panorama Village came nine years later. The Archives hold a proposal dated April 1969, titled "Panorama Village, West Vancouver, BC: a project of International Land Corp Ltd", to develop the area north of the Upper Levels Highway, and a revised proposal dated April 1971. In 1973 a committee of District staff and council members wrote a 100 page study of development above the highway. The Archives' note says the study dealt with the main questions that the Panorama Village proposal had left open.

Building followed in the 1970s, the decade in which half of the homes listed here on October 11, 2026 were finished. A photograph in the West Vancouver Memorial Library's collection, taken by William McPhee in February 1981, shows the back of the Panorama Village Apartments in the 2200 block of the street. Work went on through the 1980s. An advertisement in the North Shore News on July 4, 1986 invited buyers to The Summit at Panorama Village, condominiums that the advertisement calls a development by Polygon Properties Limited.

The lanes got their names in the 1990s. The Archives record that the private lanes of the Salishan development, off Folkestone Way, are all named for Canadian artists, and that council adopted the names Binning Lane and Carr Lane in 1996. Binning Lane is named for B.C. Binning, who lived from 1909 to 1976, and Carr Lane for Emily Carr.

Errands mean a trip down the hill. The table on this page puts the nearest grocery store and the nearest cafe more than 1.3 kilometres away in a straight line, and the map places both in Dundarave village, on Marine Drive near 25th Street. The District lists the West Vancouver Community Centre at 2121 Marine Drive and the Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, between Dundarave and Ambleside.

One commercial building stands inside the area, at 2229 Folkestone Way. The District's page for that address says it held the Salmon House on the Hill restaurant, with offices on the lower floor, when the District received an application to rebuild the site in 2022. On April 29, 2024, council approved the bylaws and the permit for eight three-bedroom townhouses in a three-storey building and a new, smaller commercial building. The application described that building as a restaurant and offices.

A District project page saved in October 2018 records that a sidewalk, a curb and new paving were built in 2017 on the north side of Skilift Road east of Folkestone Way, as part of a project to link Folkestone Way and 21st Street for people on foot. The same page scheduled four speed humps on Folkestone Way, south of Constantine Place, for August 2018.

The lowest homes are near the highway. On the map, the corner of Folkestone Way and Skilift Road is 45 metres from the centre line of Highway 1. Listen for traffic from the balcony of each home you visit.

Two trails start beside the homes. OpenStreetMap shows the Marr Creek Trail leaving Folkestone Way at its western bend and following the creek uphill for 296 metres. The map records it as a dirt footpath run by the District of West Vancouver, closed to bicycles.

The second trail starts on Skilift Road near 21st Street and climbs northwest through the forest for more than a kilometre, toward the lookout on Cypress Bowl Road. The map gives it the name Stupid Grouse, marks it for walkers and allows bicycles.

Westhill Park, beside Westhill Drive, is the nearest park on this side of the highway. The table on this page lists Hillside Park as closer in a straight line. It lies south of the highway, and the way there on foot goes under the highway at 21st Street.

Cypress Provincial Park is also in the table. On the map, its edge is less than a kilometre uphill from the middle of Panorama Village.