A half-acre street at the Chapman Creek end of Davis Bay, named by the community association as one end of the highway's worst ponding.
Where Bay Road sits, and the other places we attend
around Davis Bay. Every name on the map is a link.
Where Highway 101 leaves the beach
Bay Road runs off Highway 101 in the District of Sechelt at the Chapman Creek end of Davis Bay. The beach-level run of the highway, with the pier and the walkway on its seaward side, is usually described as reaching from Chapman Road and Bay Road at one end to Mission Point at the other, so this street is one of the two names used to bound the exposed section. BC Transit Route 1 has a stop marked Hwy 101 and Bay Rd. Documented addresses carry the postal code V7Z 0E9. The District's own Davis Bay parks map sheet lists the streets in this block as Fir Road, Field Road, Ridgeview Drive, Ward Court, Chapman Road, Mission Road, Bay Road and Solar Road.
The community association named this street to council
On 8 February 2021 the Davis Bay-Wilson Creek-Selma Park Community Association wrote to Sechelt council about the highway between Pier 17 and Bay Road. It called that length an ongoing problem area because of poor drainage and severe ponding, and pointed out that there is no sidewalk at all on the easterly side of Highway 101 there. A 2009 improvement plan for the stretch had been cancelled after the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure failed to commit to its share of the cost. The association also judged the intermediate timeline in the ministry's 2020 corridor study inadequate and asked for the work to be finished before 2025. Council took the letter up on 17 February, with Mayor Darnelda Siegers and councillors Alton Toth and Matt McLean taking part, and a meeting with the ministry followed in the week of 22 February. Pier 17 Market, at 4720 Sunshine Coast Highway, has since closed.
The flat ground here used to be a river mouth
There is a documented reason the water stands. Until 1936 Chapman Creek emptied at Wilson Creek, and in that year the estuary was diverted to the outlet it now uses at Davis Bay. The wide, low ground behind the highway toward this end of the bay is what the creek left behind. Ditches cut into an old floodplain fill slowly and drain slowly, which is why a blocked driveway culvert at an empty house shows up here as standing water across a lot rather than as a puddle. The District reports keeping more than 50 kilometres of open ditch alongside its 50 kilometres of sanitary sewer and 20 kilometres of storm sewer, and it says the collection system takes on infiltration during heavy precipitation.
Bigger lots and newer houses than the hillside streets
The lots here are large. 5005 Bay Road is a single-storey three-bedroom, two-bathroom house of 2,316 square feet on a lot of 22,695 square feet, which is 0.52 acre, built in 2010 with a detached garage. It sold on 30 June 2026 for $1,274,000. Half an acre and a 2010 build make this a different kind of street from the 1958 and 1974 stock further up the hill: more ground, more outbuildings, more room to park a boat or a trailer out of sight of the road, and a house new enough that nobody has yet had to replace a roof on it.
One water system, one sewer, one fire hall
Two governments own pipe in the same trench along these streets. Potable water is the regional district's Chapman system, not the District of Sechelt's; sanitary sewer, storm sewer and the roadside ditches are the District's. Fire cover comes from a single station at 5525 Trail Avenue in downtown Sechelt, which answers for roughly 12,000 residents across 4,830 hectares in eight communities and for about 1,300 more on shíshálh Nation land. Six career firefighters have worked two shifts of three since January 2025, alongside paid-on-call crews, and the department runs one water tender of 1,600 gallons. Automatic aid agreements are in place with Gibsons, Roberts Creek, Halfmoon Bay and Pender Harbour. Highway 101 crosses Chapman Creek close to this end of the bay, and that crossing is the only road bridge over the creek; the province's July 2025 study declined to recommend a second one.
What a check on Bay Road covers
The driveway culvert and the roadside ditch, rodded clear rather than glanced at, before and after heavy rain
Standing water across the lot, and the crawlspace or basement floor after it
The detached garage, workshop and any shed, with the locks tried
Boats, trailers, RVs and equipment parked on the far part of a half-acre lot where the road cannot see them
Temperature holding inside, or the water off at the main with the pipes emptied
Roof, gutters and downspouts, and the ground where the downspouts discharge
The highway end of the driveway after a closure or a storm, including debris pushed off the road
Mail, parcels and anything left at the door
A dated set of photographs covering each point, sent that same day
Household policies almost always oblige the owner of an empty house to have somebody competent attend on a set cycle while the heating is meant to be running, in many cases at gaps of four days at most, or to shut off the water and drain the system instead. Insurers do not all use the same number. Read your own wording and work from that.
What it costs
A scheduled check at Bay Road is
$55 a visit, plus
$10 travel. The travel charge is the same
everywhere between Gibsons and Egmont. There is no minimum term and no joining fee.
See the full price list.
Where these facts come from
Every figure, date and quotation on this page was taken from one of these. They are
listed so you can read them yourself.
