Costain Green

Costain Green is a green space in the District of Oak Bay, a community in the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. This small nature park is at the junction of Beach Drive and Midland Road in the Upland Estates.  This park is unique in that it has preserved as a patch of grass that help to form a Garry Oak meadow and many unique seasonal wildflowers. Deer are seen frequently in this area.

Geographic location N48° 27′ 10″ W123° 18′ 3″

Costain Green can be reached from McKenzie Avenue. Follow Mckenzie Avenue east toward the University of Victoria. The avenue becomes Sinclair Road as it descend into Cadboro Bay Village, with some excellent cafes and shopping. Turn right onto Cadboro Bay Road and follow to the junction with Beach Drive. The first junction along Beach Drive is past this green space. There is limited roadside parking in this neighborhood. A city bus travels past Costain Green.

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.