09334

$249,000

DL: 3140, LD: New Westminster (36), Lease/Permit/Licence #238178.

$606.40 (2009)

RS-1 Cottage Residential

Permitted Uses
a) Single Residential Dwelling
b) Duplex Residential Dwelling
c) Cottage Residential
d) Accessory Home Occupation
e) Accessory Boarding
f) Accessory Bed and Breakfast
g) Accessory Suite
h) Accessory Uses

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Lake-view cottage, storage shed

Lot Dimensions: 102 ft X 176 ft (approximate)
This lakefront recreation property is situated in a small sheltered cove on the west side of Pitt Lake, south of DeBeck Creek and across from Cactus Point. The property features approximately 100ft of lake frontage, a 600 sqft 2 bedroom cabin with loft (the cabin’s interior is unfinished overall good condition, view photos) and storage shed. The Property is located on bedrock that extends straight up from the shoreline approximately 20 ft providing commanding views of Pitt Lake. Approximately 90% of the lot is forested with western red cedars, Douglas fir and Western Hemlock as well as small shrubs creating the ultimate lakefront retreat nestled in the BC’s majestic forest.

Pitt Lake is located in the district of Pitt Meadows and is only 25.5 km (15.8 miles) east of downtown Vancouver. The Pitt River Bridge located on Highway 7 joins Port Coquitlam and Maple Ridge and crosses the Pitt River approximately 4.8 km. (3 miles) south of the south end of Pitt Lake. The property is located on the western shore of Pitt Lake South of Debeck Creek and across from Cactus Point approximately ¾ of the way up Pitt Lake. From Grant Narrows to property it is approximately 25 minutes.

This property is accessible by boat or seaplane access only!

Grant Narrows Regional Park provides a boat launch at the south end of Pitt Lake. The property is also accessible by boat from the Strait of Georgia by travelling up the Fraser River (which turns into Pitt River) to Pitt Lake. Travel by seaplane is always an option.

To access Grant Narrows Regional Park and boat launch travel along the Lougheed Highway (Hwy 7) to Pitt Meadows. Turn north onto Harris Road and right onto Dewdney Trunk Road, following park signs. Turn left onto Neaves Road, which later turns into Rannie Road, and proceed to the parking lot at the mouth of Pitt Lake.

This property has no services. To acquire electricity a generator or solar panels are needed.

Pitt Lake
Pitt Lake is the second-largest lake in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, being about 53.5 square kilometers in area. It is about 25 km long and about 4.5 km wide at its widest, and is also the largest tidal lake in the world, its confluence with the Fraser being only a few miles upstream from that river's estuary into the Strait of Georgia. Its southern tip, where the Pitt River resumes, is 40 km east of downtown Vancouver.

The upper Pitt River valley is a typical U-shaped glacial valley in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. The over-deepening of the lower end of the valley over the span of the Wisconsinan glaciation created a trough over 140 m below current sea level. After initial glacial retreat at around 13,000 years ago a saltwater fjord occupied this basin when relative sea levels were still ca 120 to 140m above current levels in the region. Unlike neighbouring Indian Arm and Howe Sound to the north this fjord basin became cut off by sedimentation of the lower Fraser River by ca 10,500 years ago and is now considered a tidal fjord lake.

The community of Pitt Meadows occupies the marshy lowland at the southern end of the lake, some of which has become drained and is known as the Pitt Polder. Just southwest of the lake is the community of Port Coquitlam, which is across the Pitt River from Pitt Meadows. At the north end of the lake is a locality named Alvin, which is a transport and shipping point for logging companies and their employees. The Upper Pitt, meaning the valley upstream from the lake, is considered BC's best fly-fishing rivers and one of its best steelhead streams.

The mountain range on its east flank comprises Golden Ears Provincial Park, its basin to the north is in southern Garibaldi Provincial Park, while the mountain range on its west, northeast of Vancouver's Coquitlam Lake watershed reservoir, is Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. The waterfront and foreshore of the lake and river are public-access and include extensive migratory wildfowl habitat. There is a destination golfing resort in the Pitt Polder area called Swan-e-set.

Size: 19,019 acres (7700 ha.)
Mean Depth: 147.6ft (45m)
Max. Depth: 468ft (142.6m)
Elevation: 164ft (50m)
Fish: Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat, Natural White Sturgeon, Steelhead, Dolly Varden and some Salmon species.

Grant Narrows Regional
Grant Narrows Park is located on the south end of Pitt Lake where it narrows to become Pitt River. It is situated on 6 hectares of land and conveniently provides a large overnight pay parking area as well as being an excellent starting location for outdoor activities whether it be canoeing along Pitt Lake or hiking the many nature trails located in the area or launching your boat for weekend getaways, the activities are endless. At Grant Narrows Regional Park there is a canoe rental shop, seasonal concession stand as well as a boat launch.

For more information about Grant Narrows Regional Park, please click here.

Pitt Meadows
Pitt Meadows offers a naturally beautiful setting, is located on the north side of the Fraser River between Port Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, just an hour from downtown Vancouver. Surrounded by three rivers - the Pitt River, the Fraser River, and the Alouette River - residents enjoy boating, canoeing, water-skiing, fishing, swimming, bird watching, cycling, walking and horseback riding. With its four world-class golf courses, an expanding airport and a new commuter rail link with Vancouver, Pitt Meadows is a community poised for growth. Dairy farms, Christmas tree farms, greenhouses, raspberries, strawberries, cranberries and blueberries all contribute to a thriving agricultural community.

Maple Ridge
Maple Ridge is situated on the north shore of the Fraser River, is one of British Columbia's major commercial centres. Maple Ridge has seen rapid growth in recent years and is a wonderful place to enjoy nature. There are many parks and trails that offer an unrivalled opportunity to enjoy the peaceful beauty of mountains, rivers and marshes.

Coquitlam
Coquitlam stretches north from industrial lands on the banks of the Fraser River, to the mountain wilderness of Pinecone Burke Provincial Park. With population that has grown fivefold in the last four decades, the services have expanded similarly, with a new city hall and library, cultural centre, the David Lam Douglas College campus, school and recreational complex.

Pinecone Burke Provincial Park
Pinecone Burke Provincial Park is a vast expanse of untamed wilderness that includes part of the traditional territory of the Katzie First Nations people. This 38,000-hectare park is the largest of the Lower Mainland Nature Legacy Parks, situated south of Garibaldi Provincial Park and west of Pitt Lake, the largest fresh water tidal lake in North America.

Pinecone Burke is an important protected habitat for many animals, including endangered tailed frogs, great blue herons, Vaux’s swifts, Huttons’ vireos, shrew moles and Pacific jumping mice. The park is also home to the black-tailed deer, mountain goat and grizzly bear.

Golf
At the south end of Pitt Lake there is a 36-hole championship golf course, Swan-e-set Bay Resort & Country Club, designed by legendary Lee Trevino. It includes a 65,000 square foot chateau-style clubhouse. Panoramic views and elegant surroundings make this clubhouse perhaps the finest in Western Canada.

Boating, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, fishing, SCUBA diving, hiking, site seeing, photography.

In 1860 Captain George Henry Richards, aboard the Plumper, made a reconnaissance voyage up a river to a lake north of Douglas Island. He named the river and lake Pitt, in honour of William Pitt, England’s ninth Prime Minister

British Columbia’s miniature version of Alcatraz was established on tiny Goose Island on Pitt Lake. In 1906, the island was deeded to the British Columbia Penitentiary for use as a prison camp. Convicts erected a forty-foot cellblock that year and were put to work cutting cords of firewood. In May of 1908 a riot erupted and quickly quelled without loss of life but several men escaped by means of makeshift rafts. As for Goose Island, the camp was abandoned to fishermen and hunters who continued using the blockhouse as a shelter for hall a century. The camp was later abandoned.

The Legend
The legend of the Lost Creek Mine began in the late 1800’s and is a colourful part of the history of Pitt River and the people who lived near there at that time. The story of the mine tells of a mysterious gold mine allegedly located in the Pitt Range, 35 km northeast of Vancouver. It’s said that in the late 1880’s, a native Canadian from the Silver Creek Reserve named Slumach showed up in New Westminster with a sack of gold nuggets.

He would allegedly drink most of it and during his many visits to the town people would try to get him to spill the beans about where he got his gold. Once in a while people would try and follow him but they never got very far as Slumach was known to be very adept at hiding his trail in the bush surrounding Pitt Lake.

After Slumach’s death various adventurers began to search for the gold mine in the mountains beyond Pitt Lake. Some people didn’t believe he had a secret stash, and others thought that he’d stolen the gold. Whatever story they believed, no one had any success and a few people even died in their quest for the gold.