Stores and services in the area
A 2-3 minute walk will get you to a 24 hour service station with a modern convenience store. They sell milk, phone cards and typical snack foods.
College Square Shopping Mall
This recently built shopping center is about a 10 minute walk away, located at 1365 Woodroffe Avenue. It contains these stores among many others:
- Loblaws (One of the bigger stores)
- Rexall Pharmacy 1363B Woodroffe Ave
- Rogers wireless
- Fido wireless
- Bank of Montreal
- The Source
Unfortunatly, there is not an official online list of all the stores.
Home Depot
This is a 14 minute walk for me, door to door.
Staples
This is further away, about 1.53 miles away on Merivale road. This is about a 1/2 hour walk, but you can get there with one bus.
Merivale Road
This is a road parallel to Woodroffe that contains many big box stores, and a variety of small stores as well. On this road you can find Cosco, Future Shop, Best Buy, the Merivale Mall, CTC, Rona, and the list goes on.
Library
The Nepean Centerpointe Library branch of the Ottawa public library is a large, modern facility. This is about a 10 minute walk if you do not take a shortcut.
Nepean Sportsplex
The Nepean Sportsplex is 1.37 miles away on Woodroffe Ave, and offers a variety of sports in a large municipal facility.
Bicycle Paths
We are about a km from one of the the bike paths. There is an extensive system of bike paths in Ottawa! Plan to bring a bicycle. Once you reach the nearest path you can go all the way down to the Parliament buildings using bike paths, without using city streets.
Bayshore
You can take one bus to get to this large enclosed multi-level shopping center, it is out of walking distance. If you can't find the store on Merivale road, then you will find it at Bayshore. It has a Bay and all of the usual accompanying stores.