Its residential subdivisions surround Broom Hill proper,[1] which is composed of gabbro which rises to an elevation of 283 metres (928 feet).
At the top of Broom Hill is a swing looking[3] out over Sooke Harbour and the Juan de Fuca Strait.
Map Hikers and bikers regularly travel the trails, but they are not marked, and cell phone service is weak.
In the 1850's Captain Walter Colquhoun Grant was scouting for new lumber markets in Hawaii when the wife of a Scottish consul gifted him with a packet of Scotch Broom seeds.
Grant brought the seeds to his Sooke homestead and planted them in the fertile ground at the bottom of what is now known as Broom Hill.