Living in Northeast Maple Ridge

Northeast Maple Ridge is an MLS® sub-area name. The City of Maple Ridge doesn’t publish a boundary for it. As a rough guide I think of it as the east side of the city, east of 240 Street to the Mission boundary, but that is my reading, not a City boundary. It overlaps my Websters Corners, Whonnock and Thornhill guides.

Route 701 runs east from Haney Place along Dewdney Trunk Road to 250 Street, Smith Avenue and 248 Street (Maple Ridge East). Some weekday trips continue non-stop to Mission City Station. Route 748, Thornhill / Haney Place, is a loop from Haney Place via River Road, 240 Street, McClure Drive and Jackson Road to 100 Avenue, 256 Street, 98 Avenue, 264 Street and 268 Street, then back along 100 Avenue. Trips run about every two hours, and some go via Port Haney Station. Route 749, Ruskin / Haney Place, is a loop from Haney Place to 280 Street at Lougheed Highway and back. Going out it uses Dewdney Trunk Road, 284 Street and 116 Avenue, and coming back it uses Lougheed Highway, 272 Street and Dewdney Trunk Road. Timetable dates: 701, effective January 1, 2024; 748, effective April 20, 2026; 749, effective June 8, 2026. TransLink’s August 24, 2026 news post says service improvements on route 701 start September 7, 2026, so check the current timetable. Northeast Maple Ridge has no West Coast Express station. The West Coast Express has two Maple Ridge stops, Maple Meadows Station and Port Haney Station, with five trips daily, leaving Maple Ridge in the morning and returning in the evening, Monday to Friday.

The Province’s school list shows Garibaldi Secondary at 24789 Dewdney Trunk Road, Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary at 10445 245 Street, Webster’s Corners Elementary at 25554 Dewdney Trunk Road and Whonnock Elementary at 27471 112 Avenue. Blue Mountain Elementary is at 12153 248th Street on the school’s own SD42 site. Catchments are set by address, so confirm a specific address with School District 42 (SD42).

Whonnock Lake Park is at 27871 113 Avenue, Webster’s Corners Park is at 25496 Dewdney Trunk Road and Thornhill Trails is at 10390 256 Street. The Maple Ridge Public Library is at 130 – 22470 Dewdney Trunk Road, and it is the only Fraser Valley Regional Library branch in Maple Ridge.

The City’s North 256 Street Industrial Lands Area Plan was adopted on June 23, 2026, and the Official Community Plan holds Thornhill as a long-term Urban Reserve. I found no neighbourhood area plan for Northeast Maple Ridge as a whole.

The City publishes a North and South Alouette River Floodplain Map and a Fraser River Floodplain Map, and says a floodplain map outlines the area expected to flood on average once every 200 years. The City says some parts of Maple Ridge face landslides and debris flows, and that melting snowpacks combined with warm weather can create landslides. Plans, zoning and flood rules can be different for each lot.

The City calls Thornhill a heavily forested, mainly residential area with several farms and nurseries, and says Whonnock is a rural residential area where many people have horses and small tree and fruit farms. ALR status is set parcel by parcel, so check the exact address on the Agricultural Land Commission map. I don’t have lot-size data for this area.