Free Things to Do in West Kelowna
Parks, beaches, trails, galleries and more in West Kelowna 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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Bear Creek Provincial Park
Bear Creek gives you 400 metres of coarse-sand beach on the west side of Okanagan Lake, across the water from Kelowna, with a buoyed swim area and the kind of facilities…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Westbank Centre Park (Julia's Junction & Kids Care Spray Park)
Westbank Centre Park pairs the Kids Care Spray Park with Julia's Junction, West Kelowna's first fully inclusive playground, built so kids of all abilities can play side…
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Willow Beach
Willow Beach is the sandy centre of Gellatly Bay and, in the City’s own words, one of West Kelowna’s best waterfront destinations.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Glen Canyon Regional Park
Glen Canyon runs for 95 hectares along Powers Creek in West Kelowna, and its trails offer everything from easy creek-side walks to challenging stairs and terrain, with…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Casa Loma Beach
Casa Loma Beach is a small waterfront park in West Kelowna’s Casa Loma neighbourhood, with a swimming beach, a grass play area, benches and a picnic table, and washrooms…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Gellatly Heritage Regional Park
6-hectare park that tells the story of the pioneering Gellatly family.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Pritchard Park
Pritchard Park sits in a waterfront neighbourhood and gives you a full set of lake-day basics: a swimming beach with a dock, a volleyball court, a playground, picnic…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Westbank Museum
Closed today · Opens Mon 9 AM
Westbank Museum is a small community museum sharing the West Kelowna Visitor Centre building, with admission by donation.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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McDougall Rim Trail
The McDougall Rim Trail is a demanding 20 km loop high above West Kelowna, gaining about 1,100 m on its way to ridgelines, creek valleys and big viewpoints, with a…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Mount Boucherie Pickleball Courts
West Kelowna's main pickleball hub has 12 outdoor courts beside the Mount Boucherie sports fields.
Free to Visit
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Pebble Beach Park
Pebble Beach Park pairs a swimming beach with a volleyball court, so a swim can turn into a game with whoever you brought.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Smith Creek Trails
Smith Creek is a sanctioned mountain-bike trail network on the forested hills northwest of West Kelowna, managed as a Recreation Sites and Trails BC trail in partnership…
Free to Visit
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Kalamoir Regional Park
Kalamoir is the West Kelowna regional park for people who like to walk to their swim: beautiful trails at varying levels of difficulty lead along Okanagan Lake to…
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Boucherie Multi-Use Path
8 km off-street walking and cycling route that runs along Boucherie Road through the heart of the Westside Wine Trail.
Free to Visit
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Fintry Provincial Park
Fintry is the big west-shore day out: a natural sand beach with warm water along almost two kilometres of Okanagan Lake waterfront, on Fintry Delta Road off Westside…
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Carrot Mountain Bluffs
3 km loop that climbs about 550 m from West Kelowna's Shannon Lake neighbourhood past a seasonal waterfall to a narrow ridge.
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Raymer Bay Regional Park
Raymer Bay is, in the Regional District’s own words, a hidden gem off Westside Road and the perfect spot to spend a day at the beach.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Falcon Park
Falcon Park is a waterfront park with a sandy beach in West Kelowna’s Green Bay: a quiet spot for a swim, with benches and picnic tables to settle into afterwards.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Goats Peak Regional Park
Goats Peak rises steeply from the shore of Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna, and the payoff for the climb is a lookout with stunning lake and valley views beside towering…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park
Gellatly Nut Farm is a century-old nut orchard on the shores of Okanagan Lake with a small beach at its edge, which makes for a different kind of beach visit: swim, then…
♥ Local Favourite Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Mount Boucherie – Boucherie Rush Trail
Mount Boucherie is West Kelowna's extinct volcano, and the Boucherie Rush Trail is the way up it: about 6 km round trip, one to three hours, with 275 metres of elevation…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Traders Cove Regional Park
Traders Cove is an idyllic beach on Okanagan Lake with spots to swim, picnic and relax, and it is shared happily by road and water: two swim areas, mooring buoys and a…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Memorial Park & Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre
Memorial Park sits beside the Johnson Bentley Aquatic Centre in Westbank and is home to the Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre.
Kid-Friendly Live Music Free to Visit
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Rotary Beach Park
Rotary Beach Park in West Kelowna is a small Gellatly Road swimming beach with one useful quirk: steps lead straight into Okanagan Lake, so getting in and out is easy.
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Sncewips Heritage Museum
Closed today · Opens Mon 10 AM
Sncewips Heritage Museum is Westbank First Nation's living museum, sharing syilx history, language, tools, dwellings and present-day cultural practice through…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Shannon Lake Regional Park
A peaceful West Kelowna lakeside park with a floating dock, short shoreline trails and picnic tables.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Wild Horse Disc Golf Course
The Central Okanagan's go-to disc golf course right now, a free nine-hole, par-27 layout in Wild Horse Park in West Kelowna's Smith Creek neighbourhood.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Marina Park
Marina Park is the West Kelowna beach designed with small children in mind: the park and its swimming beach are fenced in, there is a grassy play area and a playground…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Lambly (Bear) Lake Recreation Site
Lambly Lake — Bear Lake to everyone on the Westside — is 22 free campsites on a quiet electric-motor lake up the Bear Main forest road, about forty minutes from West…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Paddlewheeler Park
Paddlewheeler Park is an unfussy gravel beach on Pritchard Drive with a swimming area, benches and picnic tables, and a kayak and paddleboard launch site for anyone…
Lake View Free to Visit
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Rose Valley Regional Park
Rose Valley Regional Park is 250 ha of natural parkland in the Rose Valley neighbourhood of West Kelowna, with a network of multi-use trails, spectacular views over the…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Gellatly Dog Beach
Gellatly Dog Beach is West Kelowna’s official off-leash beach for dogs, a Gellatly Bay beach area on Gellatly Road where dogs can get into the lake and run free while…
🐾 Dog Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Rotary Trails (Powers Creek)
The Rotary Trails are a short, flat loop along Powers Creek in West Kelowna, with gravel paths, footbridges and a boardwalk through shady creekside woods.
Free to Visit
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Killiney Beach Regional Park
Killiney Beach is the North Westside’s community beach park on Okanagan Lake, about five hectares off Hodges Road up Westside Road: swimming, a picnic area, washrooms, a…
Lake View Free to Visit
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