Cochrane Road (Hamilton, Ontario)

Cochrane Road is a two-way Lower City collector road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It starts off at the Queenston Traffic Circle and travels South between the Bartonville and Glenview neighbourhoods right through to the Rosedale neighbourhood where it ends at Greenhill Avenue in front of Rosedale Park. From this point onwards the road is now known as Whitehouse Road and weaves its way through King's Forest Golf Course and King's Forest Park.
King's Forest Park
King's Forest Park in Hamilton was commissioned as part of the City Beautiful movement, spearheaded in Hamilton by the Hamilton Parks Board with the leadership of Thomas McQuesten.
Environs
Albion Falls, a classical/cascade waterfall, and one of , is at the back-end of King's Forest Park.
A nearby parking lot was removed when the construction of the nearby Red Hill Valley Parkway started.
A parking lot at Mountain Brow Road above the falls for 50+ cars is still available for visitors.
A small village called Albion Mills existed here until the early 1900s.
The rocks from the Albion Falls area were used to construct the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens.
Another waterfall can be found nearby, northwest of Albion Falls called, Buttermilk Falls.
Not too far off and just east of the newly built Red Hill Valley Parkway at the Glendale Golf & Country Club is another waterfall called Glendale Falls on Mount Albion Road.
King's Forest Golf Club was established in 1974 and is run by the city of Hamilton.
The Red Hill Creek and many fair-sized ponds come into play. Credited as being one of the very best municipally owned courses in Canada.
1960s zoo proposal
In September 1961 the city's board of control authorized the formation of a zoo committee to look into the proposal of building a zoo at Kings Forest, an idea that had been mooted for the previous decade.
A site was selected at the south end of King's Forest, in the Red Hill Valley, and plans were drawn up in January 1963 by local architect Charles Lenz for a "Proposed Royal Zoological Park in the King's Forest".
His design incorporated moat- and rail- surrounded land animal enclosures surrounding ponds for birds, with a few small buildings for administration and suchlike and an encircling ring road with radial footpaths inwards therefrom.
An an attempt to mollify critics of zoos, which included the Citizens Against a Hamilton Zoo lobbying group, the zoo plans incorporated a new headquarters building for the SPCA.
The Board of Parks Management set aside in April 1963 for the project.
The project failed for two reasons.
First, the city's budget was cut and could no longer afford the projected cost of the initial phase of the zoo construction.
Second, the planned Red Hill Valley Parkway was re-routed in March 1964 over some of the land that had been set aside for the zoo, and in September 1964 the Board of Parks Management informed the zoo committee that the land not allocated for the Parkway was no longer going to be set aside for a zoo, because the Parkway plans plus the (then) proposed hydro-electric towers were already set to consume a sizeable chunk of Red Hill Valley.
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Landmarks
Note: Listing of Landmarks from North to South.
*Queenston Traffic Circle
*Bartonville Cemetery
*Canadian Pacific Railway line
*Rosedale Park
**Rosedale Arena
*Red Hill Valley Trail (East of Arena)
*Red Hill Valley Parkway (East of Arena/Park)
*Escarpment Rail Trail (abandoned railway path)
*Chippawa Rail Trail (abandoned railway path)
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*King's Forest Golf Course
**Bruce Trail (West of golf course)
**Red Hill Creek (East of golf course)
*Oak Knoll Park
*Buttermilk Falls (backend of King's Forest Park)
*Albion Falls (backend of King's Forest Park)
*Glendale Falls (backend of King's Forest Park)
Communities
Note: Listing of neighbourhoods from North to South
*Bartonville/Glenview, Cochrane Road is the division between these two neighbourhoods.
*Rosedale
Intersecting streets
Note: Listing of streets from North to South.
*Main Street East
*Queenston Road
*King Street East
*Lawrence Road
Parallel streets
Note: Listing of streets from West to East.
*Victoria Avenue, North, South
*Wentworth Street, North, South
*Sherman Avenue, North, South
*Gage Avenue, North, South
*Ottawa Street, North, South
*Kenilworth Avenue, North, South
*Cochrane Road
*Parkdale Avenue, North, South
*Red Hill Valley Parkway
*Nash Road, North, South
*Woodward Avenue
*Centennial Parkway, North, South
*Lake Avenue, North, Drive

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