City parkMount Thom Park
- Size
- 70 hectares of woods, including the summit and slopes of the 484 m Mount Thom
- Trails
- Over 5 km of trails, reached from three parking areas in Ryder Lake and trailheads in Promontory
Neighbourhood guide · City of Chilliwack · Ryder Lake
Ryder Lake is an MLS® sub-area name in the City of Chilliwack. The City doesn’t publish a boundary for it, and Published municipal records list no street-by-street boundary in official sources. The closest official descriptions are the City’s Greenspace Plan 2020, which lists Ryder Lake as numbered neighbourhood 47, and the City’s Mount Thom Park page, which places three of the park’s parking areas in Ryder Lake: Forester Road and Churchill Parkway, and Ross Road. The 2040 Official Community Plan treated Ryder Lake as an upland area held as a medium-to-long-term development reserve. See all Chilliwack neighbourhood guides.
Written by Jared Gibbons, REALTOR®, Royal LePage Little Oak Realty. I have been a licensed Fraser Valley REALTOR® since 2015 (11+ years), with 10 straight years in the FVREB Medallion Club, Top 1% of Fraser Valley REALTORS®, #8 of 5,061 FVREB REALTORS®, Top 10 Royal LePage in BC, Top 35 Under 35, Diamond and Hall of Fame awards, more than $500M in sales, and a 5.0 client rating. I grew up on a farm in Langley and I'm back living here now. Facts come from the official sources noted on this page. Rules and boundaries change, so confirm anything important with the City of Chilliwack, the FVRD, and School District 33.
General information only. Not legal, planning or financial advice. Confirm zoning, plan designations, flood rules and school catchments before you buy or sell.
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Quick facts
Gathered from official sources. Details change, so use the links on each card to double-check.
Homes for sale
Live MLS® listings, updated daily.
Browse Ryder Lake homes for sale in Chilliwack, BC. View MLS listings, prices and neighbourhood info for this Chilliwack community.
For Mount Thom Park trails, the hillside permit rules, the Official Community Plan reserve policy and ALR notes, see my Ryder Lake neighbourhood guide.
Schools
Chilliwack is in School District 33 (SD33). SD33’s Long Range Facilities Plan says its elementary schools are kindergarten to grade 5, its middle schools grades 6 to 8 and its secondary schools grades 9 to 12. Names, grades and addresses from the SD33 District Directory 2025-26 and the Province’s school list.
SD33’s elementary schools are kindergarten to grade 5, its middle schools grades 6 to 8 and its secondary schools grades 9 to 12. Catchments are set by address, so confirm a specific address with the SD33 School Locator.
Parks and recreation
From City of Chilliwack and Fraser Valley Regional Library pages. Ask me what is closest to a specific home.
Homes and land
What the official sources say about the homes and lots, then the questions I go through with buyers.
Planning, zoning and flood
Plans, zoning and flood rules can be different for each lot.
My Chilliwack zoning guide covers agricultural and rural zones only. For a home on a city lot, send me the address and I’ll look up the zone.
Selling
Send me your address and I’ll give you a call to talk about how to get the most value from your home.
Call or text Jared Gibbons at 604-928-1361 or email jaredgibbons@royallepage.ca.
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FAQ
The City doesn’t publish a boundary for Ryder Lake, and Published municipal records list no street-by-street boundary in official sources. The City’s Mount Thom Park page places three of the park’s parking areas in Ryder Lake: Forester Road and Churchill Parkway, and Ross Road. Ask me if a specific address is in it.
No BC Transit route serves Ryder Lake. The closest listed service is route 54 Promontory, which ends in the Promontory neighbourhood. Published municipal records do not list new or planned transit lines for Ryder Lake.
No public school is located in Ryder Lake. SD33’s Long Range Facilities Plan 2021 to 2025 profiles 36 district sites and none is in Ryder Lake. Use the official SD33 School Locator to confirm the catchment schools. Check an exact address with the SD33 School Locator.
Mount Thom Park, a 70-hectare wooded park with over 5 km of trails and three parking areas in Ryder Lake. There is no library branch in Ryder Lake. The nearest are Sardis Library (5819 Tyson Road) and Chilliwack Library (45860 First Avenue).
The 2050 Official Community Plan covers the whole city, including Ryder Lake. There is no separate Ryder Lake neighbourhood plan. The 2040 plan’s policy was to keep Ryder Lake as a medium to long term development reserve at its current rural estate density.
Ryder Lake is a designated hillside and upland area under Development Permit Area 2, so a DPA2 permit is required before subdivision, construction, land clearing or earthworks. Published municipal directories do not list a flood document specific to Ryder Lake. Ask me or the City about a specific lot.
The 2040 plan’s policy supports appropriate agricultural activities on ALR parcels in Ryder Lake. ALR status is set parcel by parcel, so check the exact address on the Agricultural Land Commission map. Lot size (FVREB MLS® recorded sales data): the median lot size of detached houses sold in recent 2026 MLS® activity was 950,107 sq ft (about 21.8 acres), based on 2 sales with a recorded lot size. That is only 2 sales. In my size bands, acreage is 1 to 10 acres and a farm is 10 acres or more. About 21.8 acres is in the farm band, but size alone doesn’t say whether a property is farmed or in the ALR.
Use my Ryder Lake homes for sale page, or call or text Jared Gibbons at 604-928-1361.
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