Otter Point (Greater Victoria)
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Otter Point is a rural neighbourhood of Sooke, British Columbia. It references the immediate area around Otter Point Road, a 10 km crescent-shaped thoroughfare beginning and terminating on Sooke Road. The neighbourhood itself is generally considered to begin past the extensive residential subdivisions of Broom Hill, past Helgesen Road.
The character of the neighbourhood is predominantly rural, with many small hobby farms and pockets of forest. The housing ranges from small, modest cottage-type structures and mobile homes to more extensive, upscale residences. Most of the lots are large, consisting of one acre or more.
No commercial facilities exist in the neighbourhood; however, there is some light industry, typically operated from area residences. There are no public facilities, with the exception of a volunteer fire department building on the corner of Otter Point and Kemp Lake Roads.
[edit] Geography
The landscape is rocky with basalt, gabbro and sandstone. Much of it is forested by arbutus (at its western limit), bigleaf maple, alder, and conifers such as shore pine, western red cedar, western hemlock and Douglas-fir. There are many ponds, as well as two substantial lakes — Kemp Lake and Young Lake (the latter being the site of a Boy Scout camp). There are numerous unofficial trails that locals use for walking or riding horses. To the north and east of the neighbourhood is working forest land, much of it licensed for harvesting to Western Forest Products[1]. The areas around the logging roads there are popular with outdoor recreationalists.
[edit] External links
- Hybrid image of the Otter Point Road area from Google Images - The yellow, crescent-shaped road to the north of Hwy. 14 is Otter Point Rd. Kemp Lake can be seen to the south of Otter Point Road, Young Lake and McKenzie Lake to the northeast.
| Neighbourhoods in Greater Victoria, British Columbia | |
|---|---|
| Victoria | Chinatown • Cook Street Village • East Burnside-Gorge • Fairfield • Fernwood • Harris Green • Hillside • Humboldt Valley • James Bay • Jubilee • North Park • Rockland • Victoria West |
| Saanich | Beaver Lake-Elk Lake • Broadmead-Sunnymead • Cadboro Bay • Cedar Hill • Cloverdale • Cordova Bay • Glanford • Gordon Head • Gorge-Tillicum • Interurban • Lake Hill • Maplewood • Marigold • Mount Douglas • Mount Tolmie-Lansdowne • Prospect Lake • Royal Oak • Strawberry Vale • Swan Lake • Ten Mile Point • Town and Country-Burnside • West Saanich |
| Other areas | Belmont Park • Brentwood Bay • Broom Hill • Cloak Hill • Colwood Corners • Craigflower • Dean Park • Deep Cove • Durrance Lake • East Sooke • Florence Lake • Glen Lake • Goldstream • Gonzales • Gorge Vale • Happy Valley • Hatley Park • Island View • Kemp Lake • Lands End • Luxton • Matheson Lake • Mill Hill • Millstream • Otter Point • Pat Bay • Ravenwood • Rockheights • Rocky Point • Saanichton • Saseenos • Songhees • Swartz Bay • Thetis Lake • Uplands • Whiffen Spit • William Head • Willis Point • Willows Beach • Windsor Park • Work Point |
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