Beautiful homes and manicured lawns exist side by side with the jaw-dropping natural beauty of wooded areas, hills, beaches and forests. Combine that with excellent restaurants, centres for knowledge and the arts, wonderful entertainment, an ecological reserve, top-quality recreational opportunities, and an array of services make Gordon Head and Arbutus enviable places to put down roots.

Mt. Douglas Park is a local treasure with well-used trails through pristine thickets of trees and local fauna and flora. Arbutus Cove is an idyllic open and naturalistic area with trails to the cove and sandy beaches.

University of Victoria, situated on an immaculate acreage in Gordon Head, boasts a new world-class sports complex; both a law library and an extensive academic one; theaters for movies, plays and performances; and an astrophysical observatory.