Situated outside of Colwood, Triangle Mountain is immersed within Vancouver Islands forests and natural beauty, yet it is a five-minute drive to coffee shops, restaurants and grocery stores, and a 10-minute drive to the Juan de Fuca recreation centre and Q-centre; the athletic hub of Colwood. The recreation centre houses a gymnasium, pool, skating rink, soccer fields, and tennis courts. The Q-centre is the home rink for the Victoria Senior A Lacrosse Shamrocks and the Victoria Grizzlies Junior A hockey team.
The area features custom-built homes with panoramic mountain and ocean views to the east; Mount Baker, Haro and Georgia Strait, and the Olympic Mountains.
If you are a hiker, you will want to head up Havenwood Park to Lookout Lake. Go up the mountainside and the flights of stairs and you will find yourself at Lookout Lake high up on Triangle Mountain. The lake is a local favourite for swimming, picnics, hikes, and shoreline fishing and is regularly stocked with rainbow trout and smallmouth bass. Bald eagles regularly join fishermen to catch fish!
The area first got its name ‘Triangle Hill’ during World War II because it was part of the coastal defence system as a command post. It was used as a navigational aid and point of triangulation for ships entering the harbours. “There were 20 locations across the entrances to the Victoria and Esquimalt harbours,” says Kate Humble, curator at Fort Rodd Hill. “They were like studs on a belt and they all had different purposes…some were gun batteries; some were observation posts and all of them working together was called a fortress defence system.”
Today, the area boasts lovely views and a peaceful serene setting that belies the origin of its name.
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