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Considering a Countryside Move?

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About
Creston & Kootenay Lake Community Lifestyle

Is wellness important to you?
This beautiful valley, with four pleasant seasons, provides a wholesome lifestyle that young families and retirees alike find attractive. Dubbed the "breadbasket of the Kootenays," the Creston Valley produces healthy food in abundance. With fresh air, clean water, and affordable housing, all the basics are covered for healthy living. The back country and Kootenay Lake, with its beaches, provide inspiration for recreation, reflecting and creating.

Is being a part of a community important to you?
Small is big, especially when it comes to community life. This is a very caring and generous community. People look out for each other. Is this important to you?
 
This area has a population of just over 13,000 people spread over a vast, stunningly beautiful clean environment (farms and wild and scenic lands, including wetlands). There are homes to match a variety of wholesome lifestyles, including waterfront living, family farms and town life.

Do you like to play?
This lifestyle also inspires many people to create beautiful works of art, literature and music. 
People here love being out in nature and they do a variety of outdoor activities ranging from golfing, fishing, hunting, birding, gardening, hiking, flat water kayaking, back-country skiing, snowboarding, snow shoeing, ATV and snowmobile touring, road and mountain biking, gold-panning and more. They like to play!
Photographers: Justin Kunze and TaylorBassingthwaite
 (To arrange a copy, text Justin at 250-402-8829)
Aerial View of the Creston Valley July 2019

What really matters to you?

If you said, "quality of life" then living in this quaint beautiful valley, which includes the Kootenay Lake,
could be the right move for you.
Does safety matter to you?
​The valley offers a safe environment for raising children (free-range kids), and for helping the elderly retain their independence longer. Safety is a vital component for one's well-being.

This wholesome lifestyle is here for you.  Discover more about the communities, services and real estate opportunities right here.

Regional Drive Tours

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Day drive tours are delightful from Creston. Many bikers, sports car enthusiasts and cyclists love our scenic roads that link to neighbouring towns (we have motorcyclists dream roller coaster roads). We are very fortunate to be centrally located to several distinctively unique and charming towns and small cities. To the north and west we have Nelson, Castlegar, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nakusp and New Denver and to the east we have Cranbrook and Kimberly and to the south across the US border we have Bonners Ferry, Sand Point and Coeur D’Alene Idaho.

​- Debby Johnson

Photos found throughout this site have been generously donated by residents. Thank you contributors!

This is the sweet spot of the Kootenays.

Location Information

This map shows how  the Creston Valley and Kootenay Lake East Shore in British Columbia
is centrally located within the Kootenay region, between the East Kootenays and the West Kootenays.
This area is conveniently located half way between Nelson and Cranbrook, BC.

The Creston Valley, Kootenay Lake, and their surrounding unique villages and hamlets are located in the Kootenay Region of British Columbia, Canada.

Population: ~ 12,000 people
For more statistics click here
Yay! Zone 5 (to 7) This valley is wonderful for gardeners and is very much appreciated by those who want to live where their food can be sourced.

Creston annual frost free days = 155 days
Compare to:
Calgary = 117 days
Edmonton = 110 days
Kelowna = 140 days
Thank you to Lee, our official corporate sponsor, for helping to make this informative relocation website possible.
 Contact Lee by phone or text at: 250-428-6439
Knowing about this area before jumping into purchasing real estate will help ensure you make the right move for you and your loved ones - a move that you will be happy with for years to come. This is why I am sponsoring this site.
- Lee Johnson, Realtor ®   Read Lee's Bio
I’m more than a real estate agent. I’m a REALTOR ®.
The knowledge contained within these articles  are based on my decades of local personal and business experience, as well as the knowledge I have gleaned from other local residents. I am not an editor but I am an active enthusiastic resident who cares deeply for her community and has responded to a need for this type of information by creating this website. Please contact me if you see anything that needs updating or correcting or you feel should be included. Thank you, Debby Johnson