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Nicholson Road is an ongoing photo project aimed at sharing and celebrating the different communities in Metro Vancouver. Each week Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» will be featuring an image from the previous week, shot in one of the many 'hoods around town in order to draw your attention a little bit outside of the hyper-focus that we usually have on the City of Vancouver. |
Welcome to the Austin Heights neighbourhood of Coquitlam!
Over the past few years, the City worked hard on a to guide development of the area. I have to say, it's a great location geographically, and the vision they have for a village on a hill is pretty grand. Like Capitol Hill and Burnaby Mountain, Austin Heights is elevated up above much of the surrounding landscape, on top of Blue Mountain. Climb up a few stories (or 19 in the case of one of the first developments, ), and you can see most of the major town centres in Metro Van including Guildford, Whalley, downtown and uptown New West, Edmonds, Metrotown, Lougheed, Brentwood, and downtown Vancouver; along with the Fraser River, the North Shore Mountains, and so many of the other sights we've grown to love around here (even Deer Lake!).
Of course, being Coquitlam, it's right close to nature as well - like the 176-acre Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»Golf Club across the street, or Blue Mountain park, complete with a few big picnic shelters and stone barbecue.
And all of this, just a quick jaunt down the hill to North Road and the soon-to-be Evergreen Line. Oh, and sometimes it snows :)
Archives of the Nicholson Road project can be found .
