Merivale Road

From Island Park Drive to Carling Avenue the road is as a small collector route, passing the Westgate Shopping Centre.

It passes just west of the Central Experimental Farm, land owned by the federal Government of Canada.

South of Baseline Road, Merivale Road turns (it is actually the continuation of Clyde Avenue and Maitland Avenue) and becomes a major arterial route through a commercial district that contains several major malls, dozens of restaurants and radio and former CTV broadcast facilities (CJOH-TV, building structure was badly damaged by fire in 2010 and the building was demolished in 2011).

The Colonnade Road Industrial Park at the intersection of Merivale and Colonnade lies just to the south of Viewmount Road and is/was the location for branches, production facilities and headquarters of many large high tech companies such as Gandalf Technologies, and Mitel as well as OC Transpo's south west garage facilities.

This area includes various national retailers such as Canadian Tire, Petsmart, Rona, Costco and the Brick as well as various restaurant chains such as Boston Pizza and Eastside Mario's, fast food places such as Burger King and A&W, car dealerships, workout gyms and smaller specialty stores.

Merivale Road near Kirkwood Avenue looking south. The steep drop of the eastern end of the southern Ottawa escarpment can be seen here as the road approaches the Ottawa River.
The end of Merivale Road and Prince of Wales Drive