View Royal

View Royal sits along the Gorge waterway and Esquimalt Harbour, a small municipality that bridges downtown Victoria and the fast growing Western Communities along the Island Highway.

Thetis Lake Regional Park's forested trails and swimming lake give View Royal one of the region's most used parks, a rare stretch of near-wilderness inside a mostly residential municipality just minutes from downtown Victoria.

The Gorge waterway's calm, tidal channel runs along the municipality's edge, popular with paddlers and rowers, and View Royal's location on the Island Highway makes it a natural pass-through and bedroom community between Victoria, Esquimalt and the growing Western Communities.

Victoria General Hospital sits within View Royal, anchoring a stable base of health sector employment, and housing here tends to offer good value relative to Victoria proper, with a mix of established homes and newer townhome development.