Lorne Park

Lorne Park runs from the Queen Elizabeth Way south to Lake Ontario, with Clarkson on its west side around Clarkson Road South and Southdown Road and Port Credit on its east near Mississauga Road and the Credit River valley. Lakeshore Road West, Lorne Park Road, Indian Road and Truscott Drive are the main streets.

The MLS community is detached-only, and the houses divide by Lakeshore Road West. North of it, the 1950s to 1970s subdivisions off Lorne Park Road, Indian Road, Truscott Drive and the Whiteoaks streets around Mazo Crescent offer two-storey houses, side-splits and bungalows on wide lots with deep front lawns and attached garages, and many original houses have been replaced by larger custom builds. South of Lakeshore, Lorne Park Estates keeps a woodsy character with no curbs or sidewalks; its earliest houses are English Arts and Crafts cottages with deep verandas and sleeping balconies, joined over the decades by substantial homes on stately lots under maple, oak and pine, a few with views of the lake. Undeveloped stretches of Orient, Lugsdin and Campbell avenues remain inside the Estates. Along the eastern edge, lots fall toward the Credit River ravine, and a handful of lakefront properties sit along Lakeshore Road West. Birchview Drive's houses have appeared in several film and television productions.

Clarkson GO at 1110 Southdown Road is on the Lakeshore West line with express trains at peak, 2,539 parking spaces and the highest ridership on the network after Union Station; MiWay 13, 14, 14A, 23, 29, 45 and 110 and Oakville Transit 4, 11 and 12 serve it. Port Credit GO covers the east side. The 14 Lorne Park bus threads Indian Road, Lorne Park Road and Truscott Drive between the two stations, and 23 Lakeshore runs along Lakeshore Road West from Clarkson GO to Long Branch. A Lorne Park station built in the 1880s served GO trains only briefly in 1967 and 1968 and is gone, so trains do not stop in the district itself. Drivers reach the QEW at Mississauga Road or Southdown Road, and Highway 403 via Erin Mills Parkway.

Lorne Park Public School at 1325 Indian Road opened in 1923 and was rebuilt after a 1982 fire; Whiteoaks Public School at 1690 Mazo Crescent and Tecumseh Public School at 888 Clarkson Road South cover other pockets, and Hillcrest Middle School at 1530 Springwell Avenue offers grades 6 to 8 in English and French immersion. Lorne Park Secondary School at 1324 Lorne Park Road, founded in 1958 with about 900 students, hosts the Extended French program for southern Mississauga and has a long record of football titles. Catholic families use St. Christopher at 1195 Clarkson Road North, about 470 students from kindergarten to grade 8, or St. Luke at 1280 Cobalt Street, opened in 2004, then Iona Catholic Secondary School at 2170 South Sheridan Way. Boundaries are reviewed regularly, so check each address with the Peel or Dufferin-Peel board.

Jack Darling Memorial Park at 1180 Lakeshore Road West has a beach, a summer splash pad, tennis courts, a leash-free zone, a toboggan hill, picnic areas, a stretch of the paved Waterfront Trail and a tallgrass prairie the City renews with controlled spring burns. A footpath leads into Rattray Marsh Conservation Area, the last lakefront marsh on the western end of Lake Ontario, where Credit Valley Conservation maintains a boardwalk, the Knoll Trail loop and a shale beach; bikes stay out and dogs stay leashed. Richards Memorial Park marks the eastern waterfront. Lorne Park Library at 1474 Truscott Drive runs arts and music programs, and the non-profit Fairfields Swimming Club offers an outdoor pool. Clarkson Village on Lakeshore Road West has more than 140 businesses, from bakeries to pubs, the small plazas near Lorne Park Road cover daily needs, and Port Credit's restaurants and market are a short drive east.

Lorne Park is for buyers who want a large lot, mature trees and the lake, and who are prepared to own a detached house, since that is all the district offers. Families come for Lorne Park Secondary School and the walk to Jack Darling Park; executives and lakefront buyers come for the Estates and the ravine streets near the Credit; renovators come for 1960s houses on wide lots that can carry an addition. Commuters get the busiest station outside Union at Clarkson GO. Condo-minded downsizers usually look to Port Credit or Clarkson instead.