Pitt Meadows: Pitt River Bridge
Tucked between the Pitt and Fraser rivers, Pitt Meadows is a place whose character is shaped by Metro Vancouver’s low-lying river plain. The Pitt River Bridge carries Highway 7, also known as the Lougheed Highway, across the Pitt River to Port Coquitlam. Opened in 2009, the cable-stayed bridge replaced an earlier swing bridge and forms a major road connection between the Fraser Valley and Metro Vancouver. Pitt Meadows developed around fertile floodplain farmland and remains a municipality where agricultural land, waterways and busy transport routes meet. The Coast Mountains rise beyond the broad valleys to the north and east.
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The low-lying, river-fed plain around Pitt Meadows is bounded by the Fraser and Pitt rivers, a setting that has shaped both settlement patterns and the local farm economy. Dikes and drainage channels protect broad agricultural land, while the Pitt River leads north toward Pitt Lake, a freshwater lake influenced by the tides. Much of the municipality remains within the Agricultural Land Reserve, giving this Metro Vancouver community a distinctly rural character despite its proximity to the metropolitan core. Pitt Meadows lies in the traditional territory of the Katzie First Nation. Discover further points of interest through webcams across Pitt Meadows and British Columbia’s Lower Mainland.
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