Deloro & South Thompson Valley, Kamloops, B.C. Real Estate
Neighbourhood: Deloro & South Thompson Valley, Kamloops, B.C. Real Estate. The area of Deloro is located 25 minutes east of the city of Kamloops or approximately 23 kilometers. Deloro and the South Thompson Valley consists of a few different areas with various housing options from a popular mobile home park to golf course properties to large acreages and ranches. This area does not have any shopping or schools but they are not very far by car. A portion of Deloro and South Thompson Valley is accessible by the Lafarge Bridge which is past the Wildlife Park in Campbell Creek. The other area of Deloro is on the south side of the Thompson River off of Highway #1.
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Properties & Real Estate
There are three main types of housing in Deloro and South Thompson Valley, the modular home park called Country View Estates, the bare land strata at Rivershore Golf Links and large acreages, farms and ranches.
Country View Estates is located at the top of Adcock Road which intersects with Shuswap Road. This park consists of a lot of double wide units as the lots that they sit on are larger than most mobile home park lots. The owners in this pare either pay a monthly pad rent or the owners purchased the land and are paying a bare land strata fee. Some units have a longer lease with the park that reduces their pad rent. The park has a small playground for children and houses quite a number of units. This park has beautiful mountain and river views from many of the homes. One side of the park backs on to green space while the other backs on to river views and farmland.
Rivershore Golf Links is located off of Shuswap Road immediately after the South Thompson Inn, Guest Ranch and Conference Centre. Streets in this development include Navatanee Drive, Neuva Wynd, Pevero Place and Kananaskis Road. Since this is a bare land strata development the residents of this area pay a small strata fee which covers water, sewer and garbage charges for the development. All the homes in this area are executive style, detached, larger homes. Many homes overlook the golf course and have mountain views. This is not only a mature area for adults, it also has a number of younger families with children, which can be surprising on first glance.
Deloro also consists of small to large acreages, farms and ranches. Some smaller acreages are located along the South Thompson River and across from the river. The main access road for these types of properties is Shuswap Road. Some of the smaller properties are located after Rivershore Golf Course communit on streets such as Jardine Road, Teel Road, Keel Place, Pintal Road, Malard Road, Sheer Road and River Vista Drive to name a few. There are a few properties located on the south shore of the South Thompson River across the river from the South Thompson Guest Ranch and Inn. These homes are predominantly small acreages and are located on Wittner Road, Demers Place and Duncan Road.
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Shopping
There are not very many shopping centres close to this area but a short drive to Dallas Town Centre on Dallas Drive at Todd Road or Valleyview allows residents to shop for all they would need. Since Deloro is only a short drive to Kamloops residents are also able to access larger shops and stores. There are not any small shops in this area, there are however farms that offer eggs and other fresh products.
Schools
Students who attend elementary and secondary school go by school bus. The school bus travels down Shuswap road and makes a number of stops for all children who live in this area. To view more information about schools click here.
Recreation
Since the South Thompson Valley and Deloro is fairly rural there are a lot of rural type activities to participate in. Snowshoeing, fishing, boating (on the South Thompson or local lakes), hiking, motorized sports and of course golf at Rivershore Golf Links. Deloro is located along the shores of the South Thompson allowing locals to launch their boats near the Lafarge Bridge and travel east to Shuswap Lake where watersports are very popular.
Transportation
There are few transportation options in this area. Click here to review the BC Transit information.
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To read more about other neighbourhoods click the link below:
Aberdeen Barnhartvale Batchelor Heights
Brocklehurst Campbell Creek Dallas
Deloro/South Thompson Valley Cherry Creek Dufferin/Southgate
Heffley Knutsford Juniper Heights
North Kamloops Paul Lake/Pinantan Lake Pineview
South Kamloops/Downtown Sun Rivers Sun Peaks/Whitecroft
Valleyview/Rose Hill Westmount Westsyde
Surrounding Communities
Neighbourhood: Aberdeen, Kamloops, B.C. Real Estate. Aberdeen is a desirable area of Kamloops to live. It is located on the south side of the valley bordered by Highways 5A (the Old Merrit highway) to the east and the Trans Canada Highway to the north. Pineview and Dufferin are to the west of Aberdeen, Southgate to the north west and Sahali (Upper and Lower) is located to the east and north east. Aberdeen stretches up the south slope fairly high giving it’s residents fantastic views of the city. 
The area above Aberdeen drive is a newer development relative to the northern area of Aberdeen. The homes range in age from just a year old to a couple decades old. The lot sizes in this area vary due to some of the steep slopes that the homes sit on. They do tend to be on the smaller size with low maintenance yards.
A more mature neighbourhood with large executive homes often larger than 4,000 square feet can be found in Glenhmour Estates. This area is found off of Howe road on the west side of Pacific Way. 
There is a bare land strata mobile home park on Howe Road in Aberdeen called Aberdeen Glen Village. Homes range in size and age in this park. Owners of these homes own the land their home sits on and pay a small strata fee monthly for water, sewer and garbage services. This strata is very nice with a park like feeling surrounded by trees and wildlife.
The second phase of the Aberdeen Highlands Development is the “West Highlands”. It is located west of Pacific way using some of the Aberdeen Hills Golf Links Course which was an 18 hole golf course. In this development there are many different types of homes, single family homes, townhouses, duplexes, condo style homes, bare land strata and estate lots. There is also a community fire hall and small scale commercial spaces. The Aberdeen Highlands Development Corporation has a 10 year development period in order to accommodate growth. Development has begun on Linfield Drive and Crosshill Drive and Dunbar Drive where a number of single family homes exist. There are also three strata developments in this area called Carradale Court, Livingston Court (both on Aberdeen Drive), and Stirling Heights (off of Linfield Drive). The newest multi family development will be off of Kinross Place called Brighton Place and will feature a number of single family, semi-detached and townhouse units in a bare land strata.
Many streets in Campbell creek are named after animals often found in the neighbouring Wilderness park: Cougar Road, Coyote Drive, Grizzly Crescent and Badger Drive. This area is comprised of single family homes, which are for the most part newer homes. The lot sizes do vary in this area, most of the lots are flat and usable.
The BC Wildlife Park is located seconds from Campbell Creek. This park offers many different activities for the whole family.
Barriere is located 45 minutes or 66 kilometers north of the city of Kamloops along the Yellowhead Highway #5. Barriere officially became a municipality on December 4th, 2007 and has it’s own city centre that has everything you would need. The population of Barriere is approximately 3,000. The main industry in Barriere is forestry but tourism has increased allowing for another industry to emerge. The Thompson Valley Rodeo is one of the events in Barriere that draws quite a crowd. Barriere has a number of lakes in the area to enjoy many that feature white sand beaches.
Barriere has a range of properties such as mobile homes in a park, a few townhouses and duplex homes, homes on smaller residential lots, small to large acreages and recreational lakefront properties.
Most of the smaller residential lots are also found close to Barriere city centre. The newest development is found near the corner of Barriere Town Road (Northern access) and the Yellowhead Highway #5. This is where you will find the newest homes as well as serviced lots ready for new homes. Other roads such as Amnesty Road, McLean Road, Gibbs Road, Oriole Way, Deejay Road, Barkley Road, Mountain Road, Dunsmuir Road and Bartlett Road house residential properties that are under one acre in size.
There are a number of these properties found along the Yellowhead Highway but they can also be found on Barriere Lakes Road, Agate Bay Road and Dunn Lake Road to name a few. Alfalfa is the primary crop grown on farms and many properties house cattle and other livestock. Many acreages are located close to Barriere city centre allowing owners to have access to the essentials.
East and North Barriere Lakes. East Barriere Lake houses more recreational property development than North Barriere. There are a variety of properties on both lakes from resort type strata developments to more private larger lake front lots. Both lakes have public boat launches and white sand beaches. Click the following links for more information about 
There are numerous outdoors activities that can be enjoyed in Barriere. This regions is known as an outdoors paradise year round. Residents and visitors in the winter enjoy world class snowmobiling, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, ice fishing, skating (on frozen lakes) and any other winter activities you can think of. Sun Peaks ski resort, a year round resort is a 45 minute drive from Barriere adding more recreational activities to the already long list.