Colebrook Road

Seeing as how Colebrook Road is getting a reputation recently for being a body dumping ground for criminals, its a good time to write a post about it.

Colebrook Road does a lot of stop and starts between Langley and Cloverdale, mostly running alongside the train tracks. The most continuous stretch of Colebrook Road is between 160th Street and into Delta. Just into Delta. It stops just west of where 120th Street would be. Mostly there are farms down here but these are the flats and prone to flooding.

Family friends used to live on Colebrook Road, actually pretty close to where the body dumping ground is, near 125A Street. They had horses and I liked going to visit and we'd go riding alongside the train tracks. There's a nice trail about 15 feet off the tracks.

In the 80's I boarded my horse near Colebrook and 160th Street for a few months and often rode alongside the train tracks or on the road itself. Depended on whether or not I could spot a train coming and even though I had a steady horse I preferred to give myself some distance if a train was coming.

Does anyone remember St. Michelle Winery? You could see it from Colebrook Road. It was just west of 152 Street on 54A Avenue. Its all industrial and warehouses in there now. I remember when the liquor stores were on strike, must have been around 1983, and I was riding my horse in the rain around Colebrook Road. Customers were going directly to St. Michelle to buy wine and I rode up there and there was a huge line up of people standing there with umbrellas. What devotion just to get a bottle of wine! The gravel pit just behind St. Michelle Winery, accessible off Colebrook Road, was a huge dumping ground for stolen cars.

The Cloverdale section of Colebrook Road is not too accessible. You have to head south out of town on 176th/Highway 15 and go over the bridge. Get in the left hand lane and turn onto 176th Street as if you're heading down to Super Soil. Keep driving and the road bends right and becomes Colebrook Road. Nothing much to see down there. Just wait. Maybe that'll be the next dumping ground because the mayor is talking about installing motion sensors and cameras down at the other end of Colebrook.