Outdoor Destinations in Lumby, BC

Camel's Hump

Camel's Hump is the two-humped mountain you see looking east from Lumby, the core of a volcano about 40 million years old, and Tourism Vernon rates the 5.5 km trail Difficult. The hike starts with 1.1 km along the road from the parking area, then climbs close to 200 metres through forest to the first hump and its viewpoint, drops about 75 metres into the saddle, and scrambles up a small rock face to the second summit, where the trail circles a rocky ridge with views over Lumby and Lavington, north to the Mabel Lake valley and SilverStar, and east to the Monashees before returning the same way. Access is by forest service road: from Highway 6 east of Lumby turn onto Creighton Valley Road, then Clier Lake Forest Service Road, then Camel's Hump Forest Service Road, staying left to the parking area 5 km in. Dogs must be leashed under the regional dog-control bylaw.

Cottonwood Beach Recreation Site (Mabel Lake)

Cottonwood Beach is the Lumby side of Mabel Lake: 49 forest campsites behind a sandy swimming beach on the quieter east shore, reached by a good gravel road that turns off the Mabel Lake Forest Service Road at the 27-kilometre mark. It is a little smaller and a little calmer than Noisy Creek across the lake, with the same clear, cold water and room to launch a boat if you have all-wheel drive. No reservations, no services — bring firewood, water and everything you plan to eat.

Denison Lake Trail

Denison Lake Trail leads into Denison-Bonneau Provincial Park, a pocket of pristine subalpine lakes and old-growth forest in the Okanagan Highlands east of Lumby. Tourism Vernon rates the full 9.8 km route Moderate: walk about 2.5 km up an old spur road, then a lollipop loop through shaded forest, over a bridge on Creighton Creek and across a swampy stretch on old logs to the lake, where there are picnic spots, an outlet waterfall and a rock pile with views; an alternate, more open route returns to the road. BC Parks describes the in-park segment as a 2 km hiking trail that begins outside the park boundary off the Bonneau Lake Forest Service Road. From Highway 6 turn right on Creighton Valley Road, then right on Bonneau Lake FSR; after 6 km the trailhead is an old spur road on the right, with a larger parking area 400 metres further on. There is no park signage until you are inside, and poles help on the log crossings. Pets must be on a leash at all times.

Echo Lake Resort

Echo Lake Resort has been putting families on a quiet mountain lake since 1943, and it still works the way a lake resort should. Twenty minutes east of Lumby up Creighton Valley Road, seventeen campsites — non-powered tent sites and powered sites for trailers up to 30 feet — sit back from the water alongside seven lakefront cabins and a pair of small camping cabins for the in-between crowd, all served by a proper wash house with hot showers and flush toilets. The lake is the point: a swim dock and beach for the kids, a private boat launch, and a rental fleet of fishing boats, pedal boats, kayaks, canoes and paddleboards, with the store stocking tackle, ice cream and the essentials you forgot. Rainbow trout and kokanee keep the anglers busy at dawn, the playground keeps everyone else busy after breakfast, and Wi-Fi reaches the store if you must. The resort opens May 1 and closes for the season on Thanksgiving Monday; book online, and note the group-camping policies if you are bringing the whole clan.

Freedom Flight Park & School

Freedom Flight Park & School is the North Okanagan’s free-flight base at 249 Mabel Lake Road in Lumby, a 20-minute drive from Vernon and about an hour from Kelowna. It offers tandem paragliding and hang-gliding flights for first-timers who want to fly with an instructor, powered trike flights, and lessons for anyone who wants to learn to fly for themselves, from a flight park set against the hills of the Lumby valley. Tourism Vernon lists it alongside Okanagan Skydive as one of the region’s two aerial-sport operators. Flights depend on the day’s wind and weather, so bookings are arranged with the school in advance.

Gold Panner Campground

Gold Panner is the campground at Cherryville on the Shuswap River, forty minutes east of Vernon on Highway 6, and it is under new owners as of spring 2026: riverside tent and RV sites, a wash house with hot coin showers from the May long weekend to Thanksgiving, and the Monashee gold-rush country on the doorstep. It is the natural overnight between Lumby and Sugar Lake, and the last showers before the recreation sites up the road. Pricing moves with the season, so book online.

Lumby Salmon Trail

The Lumby Salmon Trail is the village's easy nature walk: three interconnected trails along Bessette and Duteau creeks, the easternmost spawning grounds for Coho and Chinook salmon in the Okanagan, linked through the downtown streets so that walks can run from as short as 1 km to as long as 8 km. The terrain is flat and accessible to wheelchairs, prams and bicycles, with interpretive signs and touch-and-play activities for young children along the way; the Village runs guided walks from June to August. Your leashed pet is welcome and doggie bags are provided. The Lumby Lions campground sits at the head of the trail, and the Village has not published a separate trailhead address.

Pat Duke Memorial Arena

Lumby's Pat Duke Memorial Arena, built as a Centennial project in 1967, is the village's winter living room: a single standard-size ice sheet with change rooms that hosts minor hockey, figure skating and the men's and women's hockey leagues — and, for visitors, free public skating. There is no charge for public skating or for the parent-and-tot and seniors' skate sessions, which makes it one of the best-value ice times in the North Okanagan and a natural stop on a snowy day heading for the Monashees. The schedule lives on the Regional District of North Okanagan's online booking calendar and changes week to week, and the arena closes to public skating on Lumby Minor Hockey tournament weekends, so check the calendar or call 250-547-2171 before you go. Bring your own skates.

Spectrum Lake Trail (Monashee Provincial Park)

Spectrum Lake is the North Okanagan's gateway to true mountain wilderness: a 6 km trail into Monashee Provincial Park that BC Parks rates easy and times at about two hours one way, on a hard-packed, three-foot-wide tread with boardwalks and bridges over the wet ground, through Douglas fir, lodgepole pine, birch, cedar and hemlock to a moss-carpeted lakeshore with 16 tent platforms, shelters and food caches. Partway in, two viewing platforms hang over Spectrum Creek at Rainbow Falls, one looking down the whole drop and one close enough to feel the spray. Strong hikers keep going: the Little Peters Trail climbs 5 km of steep switchbacks and alder-choked avalanche chutes out of the basin (3 to 4 hours, rated difficult), the Big Peters Trail rolls on through subalpine spruce and fir to Big Peters Lake 13 km from the trailhead (about 800 metres of climbing in all), and beyond that lie Margie Lake, Fawn Lake and the 2,697-metre summit of Mount Fosthall, where caribou, wolverine and pikas share the meadows. Dogs are not permitted anywhere in the park, to protect the red-listed mountain caribou; mountain bikes are not permitted on the trail, horses are. Backcountry camping is first come, first served at $5 per person per night. Getting there is part of the commitment: Highway 6 east through Lumby to Cherryville, 46 km up Sugar Lake Road to the km-22 turnoff, then 16 km of Spectrum Creek Forest Service Road to the trailhead parking lot, with active logging traffic on both roads and a log-sorting area that can trouble low-clearance vehicles. The park is open year-round when the road allows, and subzero temperatures are common in the subalpine even in summer, so pack for weather.

Sugar Lake 2 Mile Recreation Site

Sugar Lake is the big, cold Monashee lake behind Cherryville, and 2 Mile is its main campground: 62 open, level sites on the shore, a boat launch, and some of the best trout and char fishing in the North Okanagan an hour east of Vernon. It is large and easy to get into with a trailer, and it is strictly first come, first served — Recreation Sites and Trails BC spells out that no reservations exist for any Sugar Lake site — so for a summer weekend, arrive Thursday. The Gold Panner campground and Cherryville's store are back on Highway 6.

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