U-Pick Orchards, Farm Stands & Farm Visits

Pick your own

• Davison Orchards (Vernon): A family farm on the edge of Vernon with free admission. In season you can u-pick apples and pumpkins, and tractor-pulled apple-bin train tours roll through the orchards and fields. Kids love the free Crazy Cow Kids Corral play area and the animal barn.
• Paynter's Fruit Market (West Kelowna): A family farm growing fruit since 1919. Pick your own in season or grab what they've already picked, book a farm tour, then finish with a coffee or a scoop of ice cream at the on-site café. In fall, the pumpkin patch and seasonal events make it an easy family outing.
• Rose Hill Orchard & Cidery (Lake Country): Pick your own cherries, peaches or apples, then trade the bucket for a cider flight under the trees. It's a working orchard with a farm shop, picnic tables and lawn games for the kids.
• Sparrowgrass Field & Flower (Armstrong): A family farm on Knob Hill Road where you can wander the rows and cut your own u-pick flowers. There's a farmstand, a gift shop and a little café, plus seasonal happenings including a fall vintage market. Asparagus, peonies and heritage pumpkins mark the seasons, so check what's on before you drive out.

Farm animals and a full day out

• Don-O-Ray Farm Adventure (Kelowna): A petting zoo where you can feed goats, a pony, ducks and bunnies, plus a 7,000-square-foot hedge maze. The market sells fresh produce, baked goods and ice cream, and in October the farm turns into a Haunted Farm Adventure.
• Log Barn 1912 (Armstrong): A rustic farm market and café with sheep, alpacas and llamas you can feed, and fresh-baked pies that reviewers call genuinely good.
• Covert Farms Family Estate (Oliver): A working organic vineyard with a play area for kids and a petting zoo with farm animals. Let the kids loose while you taste.

Farm stands and farm cafés

• Crick Coffee and Farm Store (Summerland): A shady Trout Creek patio right next to an apple orchard, with farm-fresh produce for sale alongside your coffee. Dogs and kids are welcome.
• Farm Gate Winery & Fruit Stand (Kaleden): Half fruit stand, half tasting bar. Grab local fruit, taste through an easygoing lineup of wines and walk out with a case at farm-gate prices.

Tasting among the orchards

• Elephant Island Winery (Naramata): Berry and apricot fruit wines from an orchard setting on the Aikins Loop, poured in a tasting room with real family warmth.
• Millionaires' Row Cider Co. (Summerland): A family-run cidery on a historic orchard, with a picnic area, board games and apple slushies for the kids.
• Ailm Estate (Kelowna): Sparkling Reserve Brut and estate wines poured on a covered patio above the orchards of southeast Kelowna. Small, unhurried and personal, and open Thursday to Sunday.
• Here's the Thing Vineyards (Oliver): An orchard patio on Black Sage Road, where the $10 tasting fee goes entirely to ALS research.

Orchard history, and an orchard walk

• Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse) (Kelowna): The valley's fruit-growing and winemaking story, told in the historic 1918 Laurel Packinghouse in the Cultural District.
• Lake Country Museum & Archives (Lake Country): A heritage museum in Okanagan Centre covering Lake Country's story, from the syilx people and early orchards to the Applebox Belles. Volunteers offer guided looks at the collection.
• Summerland Museum & Archives (Summerland): Covers Syilx history, early orchard farming and the Kettle Valley Railway, with kids' drop-in workshops.
• Summerland Rotary Trail Lakeshore Loop (Summerland): A 6 km walk from Peach Orchard Beach Park north to Crescent Beach. The return leg winds back through orchards and vineyards.

Quick picks

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