Indoor & Rainy Day Spots in Penticton, BC
22 verified indoor & rainy day spots in Penticton.
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Cascades Casino Penticton
Cascades Casino Penticton sits beside the South Okanagan Events Centre, with more than 400 slot machines from 1¢ to $1, table games and a poker room. MATCH Eatery & Public House and the Summit Bar make it an easy evening out for adults (19+). Bring photo ID, since every guest has to show it at the door.
Great for Groups
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Cleland Community Theatre
Cleland Community Theatre is the city-run, 443-seat performing arts theatre inside the Penticton Community Centre on Power Street, hosting symphonies, touring concerts, comedy, dance, speakers and local productions. Most tickets are sold through ValleyFirst Tix. Elevators reach the theatre, cloakroom and washrooms, and there are four wheelchair spaces. Check the event calendar and grab tickets for a show on a rainy evening.
Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Donut House Studios
Donut House Studios is a pottery and craft studio in the Cannery Trade Centre offering bookable one-day and two-part workshops like mug making, casserole dishes, lino printing and jewellery making, plus wheel-throwing courses. Classes suit all skill levels and are booked online; one-day lino printing starts at about $50 and two-part mug making is about $110. A good pick for a hands-on rainy afternoon with friends.
Great for Groups
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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. A one-hour drop-in is about $12.50; fill out the online waiver first (it's good for six months) and register through the gym's app. It also hosts birthday parties, camps and Parents' Night Out events.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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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 keepsakes. It also carries handcrafted jewellery and metalwork from local artists. It is a small, personal stop for anyone looking for local art to take home.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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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 upstairs. It also runs painting nights, graffiti sessions and other creative workshops, and private daytime viewings can be arranged by appointment if you'd like a quieter look at the collection.
Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Landmark Cinemas 7 Penticton
Landmark Cinemas 7 Penticton is a seven-screen downtown movie theatre showing first-run films with rocker seating. Tuesday is the bargain night, when Reel Deal tickets are up to 40% off all day and evening. It also hosts the Penticton Art Gallery's TIFF Film Circuit series, a good pick for film fans on a wet evening.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Leir House Cultural Centre (Penticton & District Community Arts Council)
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 eight exhibitions a year and resident artists' studios. Drop in to see local art or join one of the creative drop-in groups, from knitting and beading circles to board-game sessions, a monthly writing group and a weekly kids' D&D group, plus workshops.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Many Hats Theatre Company (Cannery Stage)
Many Hats Theatre Company is a community live-theatre company founded in 2007 that stages plays at the Cannery Stage in Penticton's Cannery Trade Centre. We produce Five plays per year in February, April, July, September, and November. Each show runs for four weeks with performances Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday as a matinee. Visit our website to view what play is up next! Two front-row wheelchair spaces can be booked through the box office. A ground level wheelchair accessible entry is at the South End of the Cannery Trade Centre. There is also an entry at the West End of the building, where the theatre is located but this involves some stairs.
Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Penticton Art Gallery
Penticton Art Gallery is a public gallery on the Okanagan Lake waterfront by Okanagan Beach, with rotating exhibitions across several gallery rooms. Browse regional, provincial and national contemporary art plus seasonal shows and sales. Admission is about $10 for adults, $5 for seniors and students, and $20 for a family, while kids 12 and under, Indigenous visitors and support persons get in free.
Kid-Friendly Lake View Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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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 a waterslide; the slide and river both run during Public Swim. There's also a big whirlpool, sauna and steam room for warming up on a cold day. Children under seven need an adult (16+) within arm's reach in the water.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton Curling Club
Penticton Curling Club, on Vees Drive across from the South Okanagan Events Centre, runs Learn to Curl sessions for newcomers each fall, with Saturday-morning sessions in October. It also hosts bonspiels like the Penticton Curling Classic on Thanksgiving weekend, where spectators can watch top-level curling with passes from about $10 a game, sold at the door, at the club office or online.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton Museum & Archives
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. Kids can dig into science and history at the Hands-On Heritage Lab.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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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 games, an infinity game table and foosball. It's open by appointment only, so reserve your session online first. Private party packages add a game room plus a gift and dining area, making it a handy rainy-day birthday spot.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Roll N Stones Fun Centre
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. Thursdays bring all-you-can-bowl for about $25 a person, and birthday parties can be booked ahead. The licensed Victory Lane Bar & Grill serves pizza and wings lane-side.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park
SS Sicamous Museum & Heritage Park is a restored 1914 sternwheeler beached at the west end of Okanagan Beach, now a museum you can explore deck by deck. Wander the cabins, dining saloon and wheelhouse to learn about steamship travel on Okanagan Lake. The ship also hosts weddings and private rentals, so it's closed to visitors on some days, especially Saturdays; check before you go.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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Shelter Floating Sauna
Shelter Floating Sauna is a cedar sauna that floats on Okanagan Lake at the Lakeside Resort marina, where you cycle between heat, a cold plunge in the lake and rest. Sessions last 70 minutes and are booked online ahead of time. Join a shared social session or book the whole sauna privately for up to eight people.
Open until Apr 30
Lake View Great for Groups
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South Okanagan Events Centre (SOEC)
Penticton's main arena for touring concerts, family shows and BCHL Penticton Vees hockey. Catching a Vees game or a big-name show here is a classic rainy-evening outing.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Springers Gymnastics (Drop-in Gym)
Springers Gymnastics is a club in the Cannery Trade Centre that opens its gym for drop-in sessions alongside its registered classes. Weekday drop-ins are for ages 12 months to 9 years (about $10 a child, cash only), and Sunday family drop-ins welcome kids up to 10 with a parent supervising (about $15). Every child needs a registration form, waiver and a $72 yearly membership and insurance fee. Kids tumble, bounce and climb on proper equipment.
Kid-Friendly
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Tempest Theatre & Film
Tempest Theatre & Film is an 80-seat black-box theatre near downtown Penticton, home to local plays, film events and acting classes. In a room this size, every seat puts you close to the performers. Seating is general admission, so the first through the door gets first pick. The main theatre level is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible washroom.
Non-Alcoholic Options Great for Groups Arts & Culture
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The Dream
The Dream is a 135-seat listening room at 67 Front Street, run entirely by volunteers with the non-profit Dream Society and carrying on the Dream Cafe's legacy of folk, blues, rock and jazz shows. Touring and local acts play up close in a room built for acoustics and sightlines. The society says the room is under renovation with an opening date to be announced, so check where each show is held before you go.
Great for Groups
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The Lloyd Gallery
Long-running commercial gallery on downtown Front Street showing original work by around 40 Canadian artists in a salon-style space. Browse landscapes, wildlife paintings and bronze sculpture with no pressure to buy.
Free to Visit Arts & Culture