Free Things to Do in Penticton
Parks, beaches, trails, galleries and more in Penticton that cost nothing to visit. Some ask for a donation or charge for parking; check before you go.
Open Now is based on each place’s listed hours. Hours can change for holidays, seasons or special closures — check with the venue before you go.
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Lakawanna Park
Lakawanna Park sits across Lakeshore Drive from Okanagan Beach and is a summer favourite with families.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Marina Way Beach
Marina Way Beach is a small sandy beach beside the Penticton Art Gallery and marina with a swimming area that enters the water gradually, which is exactly what you want…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Lakeline Gallery
Lakeline Gallery is a two-floor downtown gallery on Martin Street, mixing street art and graffiti downstairs with a curated collector's gallery of original works…
Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Ellis Ridge & Canyon View Trails
5 km round trip out and back and easy to moderate, and the Canyon View Trail, a 2 km easy loop, both with lookouts over Penticton and the Ellis Creek canyon.
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Penticton Youth Park (Skate Park)
Penticton's Youth Park at Riverside Park is a 30,000-square-foot skateboard and BMX park whose bowl is considered one of the largest of its kind in B.C. Skaters, scooter…
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Kickininee Provincial Park
Kickininee Provincial Park is three tiny lakeside picnic areas tucked between Highway 97 and Okanagan Lake, 10 km north of Penticton, each with a buoyed swimming area…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Penticton Outdoor Skating Rink (Gyro Park)
Penticton's free outdoor rink sits in Gyro Park at the foot of Martin Street, a short walk from the Okanagan Lake beach and the downtown cafés, and in the run-up to…
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Skaha Bluffs Provincial Park
Skaha Bluffs is the South Okanagan's rock-climbing destination: a 554-hectare park of sun-warmed cliffs above the east side of Skaha Lake, reached from Lakeside Road up…
♥ Local Favourite Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Penticton Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
City-run museum beside the public library covering South Okanagan history from geology to the early town, plus a military gallery and rotating temporary exhibits.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Three Mile Beach
Three Mile Beach is really two beaches on one peninsula off Naramata Road: a fine-sand swimming beach beneath sandy bluffs, and a rockier boating beach with day moorage…
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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KVR Trail – Skaha Lake (Penticton to Okanagan Falls)
The south spur of the Kettle Valley Rail Trail follows the west shore of Skaha Lake from the Skaha Lake end of Penticton to Okanagan Falls — 13 km one way of…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Carmi Recreational Trails
The Carmi Recreational Trails are a loop network on the plateau east of Penticton, maintained as a recreation site by Recreation Sites and Trails BC, with the Okanagan…
Free to Visit
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Skaha Lake Dog Beach (Lakeside Road)
The Skaha Lake dog beach on Lakeside Road is Penticton’s designated off-leash beach on Skaha Lake, about 3 km south of the Skaha Marina.
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Rotary Marina View Disc Golf Course
A short, free 9-hole disc golf course near Marina Way at the north end of Penticton, with paver tee pads and baskets on every hole.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Penticton Ikeda Japanese Garden
A quiet Japanese garden on Penticton's Okanagan Lake waterfront, with koi-filled ponds, graceful bridges and plantings that burst into bloom each April and May.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Gallery One Twenty-Seven
Gallery One Twenty-Seven is the Penticton gallery of painter Peggie Collins, showing her Okanagan-inspired originals alongside prints, posters, postcards and other small…
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Lake Park Beach
Okanagan Lake Park Beach is Penticton’s fenced off-leash dog beach, a small sandy beach east of the Lakeside Resort where dogs can run off leash inside the fence.
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Munson Mountain
Munson Mountain is home to the giant PENTICTON sign and to the city's easiest big view: from the top, the panorama takes in Penticton, Okanagan Lake and the hills…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Penticton Rose Garden
S. Sicamous and LocoLanding Adventure Park. Stroll the beds, sit on a bench with a book or explore the gazebo; the roses are at their best in summer.
Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Skaha Beach
Skaha Beach is Penticton’s family beach and, by the City’s account, ranked among the top beaches in Canada: a long stretch of sand on a calm lake with warm water, backed…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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The Lloyd Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Long-running commercial gallery on downtown Front Street showing original work by around 40 Canadian artists in a salon-style space.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Idleback Lake Recreation Site
Fifty minutes up into the Carmi hills from Penticton, Idleback Lake is the free campground locals keep for themselves: 21 well-spaced sites on the north shore under a…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Three Blind Mice Trail Network
The Three Blind Mice trail network spreads across the benchland above Penticton toward Naramata, overlooking Okanagan Lake, and is the South Okanagan’s best-known…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Sudbury Beach
Sudbury Beach is the big, open beach just west of Skaha Beach, with a swimming area, rest rafts and slides in the water, volleyball on the beach and a concession at hand.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Robinson Park Pickleball Courts
Penticton's main outdoor pickleball hub: eight dedicated, permanently lined courts next to the South Main Seniors' Drop-in Centre, home base of the Penticton Pickleball…
Free to Visit
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Campbell Mountain
Campbell Mountain is the hill with the radio towers on the east side of Penticton, and its compact trail network is the closest mountain biking to downtown…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Leir House Cultural Centre (Penticton & District Community Arts Council)
Closed · Opens 10:30 AM
Leir House Cultural Centre is a historic 1920s house on Manor Park Avenue run by the Penticton & District Community Arts Council, with a community gallery showing six to…
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Beach
Okanagan Beach runs nearly a kilometre along Penticton’s Lakeshore Drive, a stretch of premium sand beside the SS Sicamous that anchors the city’s festival season from…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Penticton Farmers' Market
Running in downtown Penticton since 1991, the Penticton Farmers' Market fills the 100 block of Main Street every Saturday morning from mid-April to the end of October.
♥ Local Favourite Free to Visit
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