Free Things to Do in Kelowna
Parks, beaches, trails, galleries and more in Kelowna that cost nothing to visit. Some ask for a donation or charge for parking; check before you go.
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High Rim Trail
The High Rim Trail traces the forested ridge high above Kelowna, Lake Country and Vernon for about 55 km of wild, uncrowded hiking.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Bertram Creek Regional Park
Bertram Creek is a tranquil regional park at the south end of Lakeshore Road, with plenty of space on the grass and the shore to enjoy a day at the beach.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Guisachan Heritage Park
Guisachan Heritage Park is a quiet green pocket of lush gardens and big mature trees, a short walk from Pandosy Village.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Regional Library – Kelowna Downtown Branch
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The downtown Kelowna branch of the Okanagan Regional Library is a free, welcoming rainy-day stop in the Cultural District.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Gillard Trails
Gillard is the Okanagan’s original freeride mountain-bike area, on the hillside south of Kelowna’s Kettle Valley neighbourhood, and is now an official Recreation Sites…
Free to Visit
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Munson Pond Park
Munson Pond is Kelowna's birding jewel hidden in plain sight: a 9.8-hectare urban wetland near the corner of Benvoulin and KLO roads that protects one of British…
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Kinsmen Park
Kinsmen Park is an Abbott Street beach that works well when the kids want the lake and the adults want a game: a swimming area on Okanagan Lake, a playground and tennis…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Johns Family Nature Conservancy Regional Park
Johns Family Nature Conservancy is more than 400 hectares of parkland in south Kelowna with panoramic views of the Okanagan Valley and trails that lead to The Crags, a…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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SOPA Fine Arts
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Free-admission contemporary gallery in Pandosy Village featuring rotating solo and group shows by Canadian and international artists.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Canyon Falls Park (Crawford Falls)
Canyon Falls Park, also known as Crawford Falls, is a small City of Kelowna park in the Upper Mission where Bellevue Creek drops through a rocky canyon over two…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Downtown Sails Dog Beach (Kerry Park)
Downtown Sails is Kelowna’s downtown cooling-off beach for dogs, at the end of Bernard Avenue beside Kerry Park.
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Ben Lee Park
Ben Lee Park is Rutland's big family park, with a playground, basketball courts, a skate park and a water park.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Mission Creek Greenway Regional Park
Closed · Opens 6 AM
5 km of multi-use trail following Mission Creek from Okanagan Lake into the hills, linking parks, interpretive viewing areas, rest spots and picnic areas along the way.
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Waterfront Park – Tugboat Bay Beach
Tugboat Bay is the beach you can walk to from downtown Kelowna without a plan: a sandy, shallow swimming area tucked into Waterfront Park, with a concession stand and…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Woodhaven Nature Conservancy Regional Park
Woodhaven is a peaceful forested park in Kelowna's Lower Mission where a single trail system passes through four distinct natural ecosystems — a black cottonwood zone…
Free to Visit
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Rotary Centre for the Arts
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Rotary Centre for the Arts is a community arts hub with the 326-seat Mary Irwin Theatre hosting comedy, concerts and film, plus free-to-browse art galleries and…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Brandt's Creek Linear Park
3 km greenway through Glenmore, linking seven neighbourhood parks along a shady creek corridor with wetlands, ponds, viewing platforms and public art.
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Rotary Marsh Park
Rotary Marsh is downtown Kelowna's wild corner: a restored wetland at the north end of Waterfront Park, beside the lakeside promenade and ringed by high-rises, where…
Free to Visit
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City Park – Hot Sands Beach
Hot Sands is the long sandy beach inside Kelowna’s City Park, where a swim can turn into a whole day.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Mission Creek Mountain Bike Skills Park
4-hectare site at 1960 Hollywood Road South, next to the Mission Creek Greenway.
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Ponds Park & Trail
The Ponds Park & Trail offers over two kilometres of paved trail in Kelowna's Upper Mission with excellent views of Okanagan Lake and the city.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Hambleton Galleries
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Established in 1963, the oldest commercial art gallery in BC's interior, now in the downtown Cultural District.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Boyce-Gyro Beach Park
Boyce-Gyro is Kelowna’s Lakeshore Road beach for people who want to do more than lie down: a swimming area on Okanagan Lake, sand volleyball courts and a playground…
♥ Local Favourite Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Maude-Roxby Wetland (Bird Sanctuary)
Tucked into the Okanagan Lake shoreline at the end of Francis Avenue in the Pandosy neighbourhood, the Maude-Roxby Wetland is a bird sanctuary you can walk into from a…
Free to Visit
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Robert Lake Regional Park
Robert Lake is not a park you walk through — it is a park you look at, and for birders that is exactly the point.
Free to Visit
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Strathcona Beach Park
Strathcona Beach Park is a small Abbott Street beach for an uncomplicated swim: a swimming area on Okanagan Lake, a playground for the kids and a washroom, and not much…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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McKinley Mountain Park
McKinley Mountain Park is the City of Kelowna's 'Mini Knox': a 17-hectare hillside park in the McKinley area north of the city where a short hike of about 1 km uphill…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse)
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum tells the valley's fruit-growing and wine-making story from the historic 1918 Laurel Packinghouse in the Cultural District.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Lebanon Creek Greenway Regional Park
2 km from Lakeshore Road through creekside forest and over wooden footbridges, then switchbacks up about 450 m into grassland with sweeping views over Okanagan Lake.
Free to Visit
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Farming Karma Fruit Co.
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Farming Karma is a Rutland-area farm that turns its own fruit into handcrafted sodas, and the tasting room sits right where that fruit is grown.
Dog-Friendly Vegetarian-Friendly Patio +5 more
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Kuipers' Peak Mountain Park
Kuipers' Peak Mountain Park in Kelowna's Upper Mission is a short hike with a big reward: five to ten minutes to the top, with some sections that will get your heart…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Sarsons Beach Park
Sarsons Beach Park is the Lower Mission beach to choose when you would rather not share the beach with a crowd: the City describes it as usually quieter and less crowded…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Mission Creek Regional Park
Mission Creek Regional Park is 92 hectares of winding trails, creek and cottonwoods in the heart of Kelowna, and a park that works in every season.
♥ Local Favourite Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Father Pandosy Mission Heritage Site
Father Pandosy Mission marks the first permanent non-Indigenous settlement in the Okanagan, founded by Oblate priest Father Pandosy in 1860.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Bluebird Beach Park
Bluebird Beach Park is one of the smaller beaches along Lakeshore Road south of downtown Kelowna, the stretch Tourism Kelowna points to for beach access points and…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Closed · Opens 11 AM
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art has been showing contemporary work by emerging, established and experimental artists since 1989.
Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Knox Mountain Park
Knox Mountain is Kelowna's largest natural area park, 385 hectares rising roughly 300 metres above Okanagan Lake just north of downtown, and its lookouts are the classic…
♥ Local Favourite Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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sntsk‘il’ntən–Black Mountain Regional Park
sntsk‘il’ntən–Black Mountain is a vast 640-hectare regional park on Kelowna's eastern slopes, where trails climb through endangered grasslands to open viewpoints over…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Poplar Point Dog Beach
Poplar Point Dog Beach is one of the City of Kelowna’s four official off-leash dog beaches, just north of Sutherland Bay Park on Ellis Street.
🐾 Dog Friendly Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park
Okanagan Mountain is 11,321 hectares of rugged wilderness on the east shore of Okanagan Lake, opposite Peachland, with no public roads inside it — which is exactly its…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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KLO Creek Regional Park
KLO Creek Regional Park is a 1.8 km creek-side trail in southeast Kelowna, a short stroll on natural terrain that the Regional District recommends for its cool shade in…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Okanagan Military Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Museum in the Kelowna Memorial Arena building telling the stories of Okanagan people in military service, with uniforms, artifacts and archives. Admission is by donation.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Scenic Canyon Regional Park
Scenic Canyon is where the Mission Creek Greenway turns wild: a 229-hectare natural area in southeast Kelowna where the trails follow Mission Creek and KLO Creek beneath…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Cedar Creek Park
Cedar Creek Park is the biggest off-leash dog beach in Kelowna, and on a hot summer’s day that is the whole point: a beach and swimming area on Okanagan Lake where you…
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Crawford Trails – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Crawford is what Kelowna riders call the trail network in the western part of Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park, above the Upper Mission, reached from the Stewart Road East…
Free to Visit
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Pandosy Waterfront Park
Pandosy Waterfront Park opened on Abbott Street at Cedar Avenue in late June 2023, giving Pandosy Village its own spot on Okanagan Lake.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery
The Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery is a private garden and gallery in Kelowna's north end holding hundreds of works by artist Geert Maas, including one of…
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Myra Canyon – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Myra Canyon is the Okanagan's signature rail-trail day: the historic Kettle Valley Railway grade curls around the canyon southeast of Kelowna on its trestles, and BC…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit Arts & Culture
All places on this page, A–Z (57)
- Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
- Ben Lee Park
- Bertram Creek Regional Park
- Bluebird Beach Park
- Boyce-Gyro Beach Park
- Brandt's Creek Linear Park
- Canyon Falls Park (Crawford Falls)
- Cedar Creek Park
- Chichester Wetland Park
- City Park – Hot Sands Beach
- Crawford Trails – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
- Dilworth Mountain Park
- Downtown Sails Dog Beach (Kerry Park)
- Farming Karma Fruit Co.
- Father Pandosy Mission Heritage Site
- Gallery 421
- Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery
- Gillard Trails
- Guisachan Heritage Park
- Hambleton Galleries
- High Rim Trail
- Johns Family Nature Conservancy Regional Park
- Kasugai Garden
- Kinsmen Park
- KLO Creek Regional Park
- Knox Mountain Park
- Kuipers' Peak Mountain Park
- Lake Avenue Beach Access
- Lebanon Creek Greenway Regional Park
- Maude-Roxby Wetland (Bird Sanctuary)
- McKinley Mountain Park
- Mill Creek Regional Park
- Mission Creek Greenway Regional Park
- Mission Creek Mountain Bike Skills Park
- Mission Creek Regional Park
- Munson Pond Park
- Myra Canyon – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
- Okanagan Military Museum
- Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park
- Okanagan Regional Library – Kelowna Downtown Branch
- Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse)
- Pandosy Waterfront Park
- Ponds Park & Trail
- Poplar Point Dog Beach
- Robert Lake Regional Park
- Rotary Beach Park
- Rotary Centre for the Arts
- Rotary Marsh Park
- Sarsons Beach Park
- Scenic Canyon Regional Park
- sntsk‘il’ntən–Black Mountain Regional Park
- SOPA Fine Arts
- Stephens Coyote Ridge Regional Park
- Strathcona Beach Park
- Stuart Park Outdoor Rink
- Waterfront Park – Tugboat Bay Beach
- Woodhaven Nature Conservancy Regional Park
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