Indoor & Rainy Day in the Okanagan
Museums, galleries, theatres, escape rooms, bowling, climbing gyms and more — the Okanagan’s best ideas for grey, wet or cold days.
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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H2O Adventure + Fitness Centre
Closed · Opens 8 AM
H2O Adventure + Fitness Centre is a YMCA-run indoor waterpark billing itself as Canada's largest municipal waterpark, with waterslides, a FlowRider, wave pool, lazy…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Simplex Sportszone
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Simplex Sportszone is an indoor sports arcade that takes golf seriously: Trackman 4 and Full Swing studios offer 400-plus courses, with in-house PGA coaches on hand.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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FunSpace Kids
Closed · Opens 9:30 AM
FunSpace Kids in West Kelowna is an indoor playground for kids 1 to 12, with slides, a trampoline, a Lego wall and separate zones for toddlers and bigger kids.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO) is the National Research Council's radio telescope site in the White Lake valley, where free one-hour guided tours…
Open until Nov 1
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre
Closed · Opens 1 PM
Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre is West Kelowna's indoor pool, with a 25 m tank, slides, a rope swing, beach-entry access, a warm soaking pool, hot tub and steam…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Summerland Museum & Archives
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Summerland Museum & Archives is a community museum on Wharton Street covering Syilx history, early orchard farming and the Kettle Valley Railway.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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The Rock Garden Climbing Centre
Closed · Opens 12 PM
The Rock Garden Climbing Centre is Vernon's indoor climbing gym, with a bouldering area and roped routes for beginners through experienced climbers.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Canadian Wildlife Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Canadian Wildlife Museum is a private natural-history museum north of Vernon with 350+ mounted specimens, from mice to bison, displayed in life-like dioramas over two…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Science Centre
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Okanagan Science Centre is a hands-on science centre in Polson Park with rotating interactive exhibits, planetarium shows and live animals.
♥ Local Favourite Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Beyond the Crux Climbing Gym
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Beyond the Crux Climbing Gym is a full-service indoor climbing gym with over 5,000 sq ft of bouldering, plus top rope and lead walls and a training area.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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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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Kelowna Karting Entertainment Centre
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Kelowna Karting Entertainment Centre packs an electric go-kart track, Zero Latency free-roam VR, a gel-blaster and laser tag arena, axe throwing and an arcade under one…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Parkinson Recreation Centre
Closed · Opens 8 AM
Parkinson Recreation Centre, the City of Kelowna's main rec centre close to downtown, has a 25-metre pool and a children's play pool for drop-in public swims, plus a hot…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Exit Kelowna Escape Games
Closed · Opens 11 AM
Exit Kelowna Escape Games has five themed rooms: Abandoned, Haunted, Pirate Cove, Potions and Runaway Train.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Okanagan Heritage Museum
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Okanagan Heritage Museum is a downtown museum covering the natural and human history of the Okanagan, from syilx culture to settler life, with exhibits such as…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Okanagan Bowling Club (OBC)
Closed · Opens 10 AM
Okanagan Bowling Club (OBC) is a five-pin bowling centre in Capri Centre, in the former Capri Lanes space, billed as the largest 5-pin alley in the Okanagan.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10:30 AM
Penticton Art Gallery is a public gallery on the Okanagan Lake waterfront by Okanagan Beach, with rotating exhibitions across several gallery rooms.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Lincoln Lanes
Closed · Opens 12 PM
Lincoln Lanes is a family 5-pin bowling centre in Vernon with automatic scoring and a snack bar serving hot dogs, cheeseburgers and cold drinks.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Kelowna Art Gallery
Closed · Opens 10 AM
The Kelowna Art Gallery is the city's public art gallery in the downtown Cultural District, with rotating contemporary and historical exhibitions across several…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Planet Lazer Kelowna
Closed · Opens 9:30 AM
Planet Lazer Kelowna is a long-running entertainment centre with multi-level laser tag, duckpin bowling, free-roam VR and a card-based arcade.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Springers Gymnastics (Drop-in Gym)
Closed today · Opens tomorrow 10 AM
Springers Gymnastics is a club in the Cannery Trade Centre that opens its gym for drop-in sessions alongside its registered classes.
Kid-Friendly
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Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
Closed · Opens 12 PM
The Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre is Vernon's main performing arts venue, hosting touring concerts, comedy, dance, theatre and family shows year-round in a…
Kid-Friendly Non-Alcoholic Options Live Music Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Beyond Belief Escape Rooms
Closed · Opens 1 PM
Beyond Belief Escape Rooms on 25th Street in Vernon has six themed escape rooms, from Lost Island to Wizards Academy, where teams of 2-8 have 60 minutes to solve their…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Play Area Kelowna
Closed · Opens 9:30 AM
Indoor playground for young kids with a ball pit, sand pit, play structures and toys, open for drop-in play.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Roll N Stones Fun Centre
Closed · Opens 12 PM
Roll N Stones Fun Centre is a family fun centre with bowling lanes, glow-in-the-dark laser bowling on Friday and Saturday nights, billiards, darts and an arcade.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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McCurdy Bowling Centre
Closed · Opens 12 PM
McCurdy Bowling Centre is a big, all-ages bowling centre with 24 ten-pin and 6 five-pin lanes, plus cosmic bowling and lane-side food and drinks from the attached…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Kelowna Family YMCA
Closed · Opens 8 AM
The Kelowna Family YMCA in Rutland is a community health and fitness centre with long opening hours seven days a week.
Kid-Friendly
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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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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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Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Summerland's indoor pool and hot tub, celebrating 50 years in 2026, with evening and weekend public swims, lane swims and AquaFit.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Gneiss Climbing - Hill Security
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Gneiss's second Kelowna gym, with lots of bouldering plus auto-belay top-rope lines and an upstairs training area with a Moonboard. Drop-in day passes for all ages.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Gneiss Climbing - OG Banks
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Bouldering-focused climbing gym with regularly reset problems and training areas. Day passes for adults, youth and kids, plus a cheap twilight pass after 9pm.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Wild Kidz Indoor Play & Party Centre
Closed · Opens 9 AM
About 5,000 sq ft of play structures for kids 0-12, with a soft-play toddler zone and bouncy castles.
Kid-Friendly
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Elodie's Playhouse Cafe
Closed · Opens 9 AM
Elodie's Playhouse Cafe in Vernon is built entirely around families, with four little playhouses, toys and open play for kids up to age five, plus a playroom for…
Rainy day: Indoor play cafe for little ones
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Open Early
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Vernon Aquatic Centre
The Vernon Aquatic Centre has an eight-lane, 25 m lap pool and a warm leisure pool featuring a waterslide, rapids channel, rope swing, climbing wall and bubble pit, plus…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Airhouse Kelowna
Airhouse Kelowna is a freestyle training centre with trampolines, a spring floor, skateboard ramps and parkour areas, offering drop-in sessions for all ages (kids must…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton Community Centre (Pool & Lazy River)
Penticton Community Centre is the city's recreation centre on Power Street, with a 10-lane, 25 m lap pool plus a leisure pool featuring a lazy river, spray features and…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton Virtual Reality Studio
Penticton Virtual Reality Studio is a small VR studio inside the Cannery Trade Centre where you book headsets by the hour, try VR escape experiences, or play free arcade…
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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BEEPS – Peachland Bat Colony & BatCam
Up to a thousand female bats raise their pups each summer in the attic of Peachland's historic schoolhouse, and the Bat Education and Ecological Protection Society…
Kid-Friendly
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Ethos Parkour & Movement
Ethos Parkour & Movement is an indoor parkour gym on Okanagan Avenue East with vaults, bars and walls, where kids, teens and adults can join supervised open-gym drop-ins.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Whiski-Jacks Pins & Pints
Closed · Opens 11 AM
Whiski-Jacks Pins & Pints is a bowling alley and pub on Highway 97 in West Kelowna, well suited to group events and parties.
Rainy day: Bowling alley
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Open Late
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Energyplex
Family entertainment centre with laser tag, a 30-foot climbing wall, laser maze, Power Grid, a 35+ game ticket arcade and a kids' zone.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Kobau Lanes
Eight-lane 5-pin bowling centre in Osoyoos with cosmic lighting, a licensed lounge and birthday party packages.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Work of Art Pottery Studio
Paint-your-own-pottery studio where no experience is needed, plus build-a-mug and hand-building workshops.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Enderby Arena
Enderby Arena at the John Pritchard Memorial Sports Complex offers something rare: free public skating several afternoons a week, from mid-September through March.
Rainy day: Indoor ice: public skating sessions
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
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McLaren Park Arena
McLaren Park Arena skates from October to mid-March and on Saturdays the rest of the year.
Rainy day: Indoor ice: public skating sessions
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Nor-Val Sports Centre
Armstrong's Nor-Val Sports Centre, whose ice now carries the name Sunbelt Arena, runs friendly weekday drop-ins from September 9 through March.
Rainy day: Indoor ice: public skating sessions
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Sun Bowl Arena
), and the lobby Skate Library lends skates free. Bring a helmet, which is required.
Rainy day: Indoor ice: free public skating
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
All places on this page, A–Z (157)
- Airhouse Kelowna
- Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
- Another World VR Vernon
- Anytime Sim Golf
- Armstrong Spallumcheen Museum & Art Gallery
- Back Nine Indoor Golf
- BEEPS – Peachland Bat Colony & BatCam
- Bernie's Supper Club & Cinema
- Beyond Belief Escape Rooms
- Beyond the Crux Climbing Gym
- BNA Brewing
- BNA Brewing Kelowna
- BNA Brewing Vernon
- Caetani Cultural Centre
- Canadian Wildlife Museum
- Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse
- Cascades Casino Penticton
- Catelowna Cat Cafe
- Chances Casino Kelowna
- Cineplex Cinemas Orchard Plaza
- Cleland Community Theatre
- Cleopatra's Rituals Thermal Spa and Steam
- Courtyard Gallery
- Creekside Theatre
- Cue's Game Room
- Dante's Golf Lounge
- Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO)
- Donut House Studios
- Elodie's Playhouse Cafe
- Enderby & District Museum & Archives
- Enderby Arena
- Energyplex
- Ethos Parkour & Movement
- Exit Kelowna Escape Games
- FunSpace Kids
- Galaxy Cinemas Vernon
- Gallery 421
- Gallery Artiva
- Gallery One Twenty-Seven
- Gallery Vertigo
- Geert Maas Sculpture Gardens & Gallery
- Gneiss Climbing - Hill Security
- Gneiss Climbing - OG Banks
- Golf Evolution
- Golfbox
- H2O Adventure + Fitness Centre
- Hambleton Galleries
- Headbones Gallery
- Historic O'Keefe Ranch
- Johnson Bentley Memorial Aquatic Centre
- JSquared Golf
- Kelowna Actors Studio
- Kelowna Art Gallery
- Kelowna Comedy Club at Dakoda's Comedy Lounge
- Kelowna Community Theatre
- Kelowna Curling Club
- Kelowna Downtown YMCA
- Kelowna Escape Room by Omni
- Kelowna Family YMCA
- Kelowna Karting Entertainment Centre
- Kelowna Memorial Arena
- KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence
- Kobau Lanes
- Lake City Casino Vernon
- Lake Country Art Gallery
- Lake Country Museum & Archives
- Lakeline Gallery
- Landmark Cinemas 7 Penticton
- Landmark Cinemas 8 Xtreme West Kelowna
- Landmark Cinemas Grand 10 Kelowna
- Leir House Cultural Centre (Penticton & District Community Arts Council)
- Lincoln Lanes
- Löyly Floating Sauna
- Lumby & District Museum
- Mackie Lake House
- Many Hats Theatre Company (Cannery Stage)
- McCurdy Bowling Centre
- McLaren Park Arena
- Mount Boucherie Arenas – Jim Lind Arena & Royal LePage Place
- Museum & Archives of Vernon
- Nixdorf Classic Cars
- Nor-Val Sports Centre
- Okanagan Art Gallery
- Okanagan Bowling Club (OBC)
- Okanagan Falls Museum (Bassett House)
- Okanagan Folk School
- Okanagan Heritage Museum
- Okanagan Military Museum
- Okanagan Regional Library – Kelowna Downtown Branch
- Okanagan Science Centre
- Okanagan Virtual Golf
- Okanagan Wine & Orchard Museum (Laurel Packinghouse)
- Oliver & District Museum
- Oliver Curling Club (Eastlink Curling Centre)
- Oliver Theatre
- Osoyoos & District Museum and Archives
- Osoyoos Curling Club
- Parkinson Recreation Centre
- Pat Duke Memorial Arena
- Peachland Art Gallery
- Peachland Community Centre – Drop-in Pickleball
- Peachland Museum
- Pearl & Fern Pottery Studio
- Penticton Art Gallery
- Penticton Community Centre (Pool & Lazy River)
- Penticton Curling Club
- Penticton Museum & Archives
- Penticton Virtual Reality Studio
- Planet Bee Honey Farm & Honeymoon Meadery
- Planet Lazer Kelowna
- Play Area Kelowna
- Playtime Casino Kelowna
- Powerhouse Theatre
- Predator Ridge SIM Lounge
- Revelry Food + Music Hub
- Roll N Stones Fun Centre
- Rotary Centre for the Arts
- Rutland Arena
- Scandia Golf & Games
- Shelter Floating Sauna
- Simplex Sportszone
- Sncewips Heritage Museum
- Sonora Community Centre
- SOPA Fine Arts
- South Okanagan Events Centre (SOEC)
- Springers Gymnastics (Drop-in Gym)
- SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park
- Summerland Aquatic & Fitness Centre
- Summerland Arts Council Gallery (George Ryga Arts & Culture Centre)
- Summerland Museum & Archives
- Sun Bowl Arena
- Tality Wellness Kelowna
- Tempest Theatre & Film
- The Art Gallery Osoyoos
- The Boarding House Cafe
- The Dream
- The Fringe Indoor Golf
- The Kal
- The Lloyd Gallery
- The Rock Garden Climbing Centre
- Twice The Dice Board Game Cafe and bar
- Venables Theatre
- Vernon & District Performing Arts Centre
- Vernon Aquatic Centre
- Vernon Community Arts Centre
- Vernon Curling Club
- Vernon Jazz Club
- Vernon Public Art Gallery
- Vernon Recreation Complex – Priest Valley Arena & Centennial Outdoor Rink
- Vernon Towne Theatre
- Virtual Rcades
- Westbank Museum
- Whiski-Jacks Pins & Pints
- Wild Kidz Indoor Play & Party Centre
- Winfield Arena
- Work of Art Pottery Studio
- Xperience Games Kelowna
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.