Homes For Sale in The Oaks at Six Mile Creek

About The Oaks at Six Mile Creek

The Oaks at Six Mile Creek is a freehold adult-lifestyle community in Fort Erie operated by —. Homes are typically bungalows and low-maintenance designs aimed at the 55+ buyer.

Adult-lifestyle communities turn over steadily as owners downsize or relocate. Every listing below sits inside the community boundary shown on the map.

The homes of The Oaks

The Oaks at Six Mile Creek is Blythwood Homes' adult-oriented community in Ridgeway, Fort Erie — and Blythwood is explicit about what that means: its adult lifestyle communities are not age-restricted, but designed to appeal to older adults whose children have moved out. The housing mix is detached bungalows on freehold lots plus bungalow townhomes, ranging from about 1,560 to 2,058 square feet. Builder pricing seen put towns from $659,000 and singles from $659,000 to $789,500; a resale townhome at 8 Butternut Crescent was listed at $749,000.

The designs run to the Blythwood signature: 10-foot vaulted ceilings, great-room fireplaces, quartz islands, covered decks, finished basements and double garages. A 23 Sassafras Row listing showed the Maple End townhome — three bedrooms, three baths, primary suite with ensuite and walk-in closet, finished basement with bedroom, bath and rec room, irrigated and sodded lots. The townhomes are condominiums, which is what buys the freedom from yard maintenance, irrigation and snow removal.

How The Oaks works: tenure and fees

The Oaks runs on a split tenure that buyers must keep straight: the detached homes are freehold lots — Phase 1 detached lots were reported nearly sold out — while the townhomes are condominium units with monthly fees covering exterior maintenance, irrigation and snow removal. That split is the whole value proposition of the townhome side: lock-and-leave living without the land-lease trade-offs.

No current condo-fee amount was published on any operator source seen, so get the schedule, the reserve fund position and the fee history from the status certificate before you offer. Blythwood's own guidance is the honest framing for the age question: these communities appeal to older buyers but are not formally age-restricted — confirm the current occupancy rules in the declaration rather than assuming a 55+ restriction.

Amenities and daily life

The Oaks has no big resort clubhouse in the sources seen — the amenity is the setting itself. The community sits beside an expansive 20-acre original forest conservation area, and the 24-kilometre Friendship Trail runs nearby, tracing a decommissioned rail line from the Welland Canal in Port Colborne to the Niagara Parkway. Downtown Ridgeway — the boutiques, restaurants, spas, arts venues and the famous main street — is a short walk away.

A few kilometres west, Crystal Beach offers the sandy Lake Erie shoreline, shops and restaurants. Golfers have multiple Niagara courses close by. Daily services — groceries, pharmacy, healthcare — come from Ridgeway and Fort Erie, with the future South Niagara Hospital in the broader area's plans.

Location and getting there

The Oaks at Six Mile Creek is in Ridgeway, in the Town of Fort Erie, on the Lake Erie side of the Niagara Peninsula — a short walk to the shores of Lake Erie per community descriptions, and walking distance to historic downtown Ridgeway. The QEW is the regional artery: roughly 20–30 minutes to Niagara Falls, about 90 minutes to Toronto, and minutes to the US border crossings at Fort Erie.

For buyers comparing Blythwood's two Niagara communities, the geography is the choice: The Oaks is the south-Niagara, Lake Erie, small-town option; The Vintages at Four Mile Creek is the north-Niagara, wine-country option. Same builder philosophy, different daily backdrop. Ridgeway's beach, the Friendship Trail and Port Colborne's amenities are the local staples, while Niagara Falls and the QEW corridor keep the wider region and the GTA within a practical drive.

The Oaks market snapshot

There is not enough current listing data to publish a reliable average price for The Oaks at Six Mile Creek. Documented pricing: builder pricing from $659,000 for towns and $659,000–$789,500 for singles, and a $749,000 resale townhome on Butternut Crescent. With Phase 1 detached lots reported nearly sold out, resale and later-phase builder releases are the inventory sources.

Compare detached resales against detached resales and townhome condos against townhome condos — the condo fee belongs in the monthly comparison. And note Blythwood's positioning when you compare against true 55+ communities: the buyer profile is similar, but the legal structure is conventional freehold and condo, not age-restricted.

Buying in The Oaks: what to check

Get the condominium status certificate for any townhome: the fee, the reserve fund, any pending special assessments, and the rules on rentals, pets and exterior alterations. For detached freehold lots, confirm what — if any — architectural controls or shared obligations apply.

For new-build purchases, confirm the builder's warranty (Tarion), the closing timeline, and exactly what the base price includes versus upgrades. And verify the age positioning as written: Blythwood markets to the 55-plus buyer without a formal age restriction, so if a hard 55+ rule matters to you, this is not that community.

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