Ski & Snow in the Okanagan
Four ski hills, Nordic trails, tube parks, skating, sleigh rides and dog sledding — everything for a snow day in the Okanagan, with where to eat when the lifts close.
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SilverStar Mountain Resort
SilverStar is the North Okanagan's four-season mountain resort above Vernon, and in winter it is a whole village of things to do rather than a single ski hill.
Closed for the season. Reopens November 27.
♥ Local Favourite Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Big White Ski Resort
Big White is the Okanagan's big mountain resort, up the road from Kelowna and open year-round.
Closed for the season. Reopens November 26.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Apex Mountain Resort
Apex is Penticton's home mountain, a short 30-minute drive from town — 33 km, and 23 km from Penticton Airport — with 2,000 vertical feet and 1,112 skiable acres of…
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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Baldy Mountain Resort
Baldy is the South Okanagan's ski hill, tucked between the desert country around Oliver and the West Kootenays, with a summit at 2,310 metres and a day lodge at 1,726…
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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Predator Ridge Trails
5 km of dedicated bike trails plus a connector into Ellison Provincial Park, all open to the public and operated seasonally.
Lake View Free to Visit
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Peachland Outdoor Ice Rink (Mountain View Park)
Peachland's outdoor rink is a labour of love. m. m. , with lights for the evening.
Free to Visit
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McKinney Nordic Ski Club – Snowshoe & Cross-Country Trails
Twenty-seven kilometres up McKinney Road from Oliver, a few minutes before the road reaches Baldy Mountain Resort, the McKinney Nordic Ski Club keeps a small…
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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MNP Place
MNP Place — the multi-rink complex on Gordon Drive that many locals still call the Capital News Centre — is where Kelowna's hockey players get their drop-in fix.
Great for Groups
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Johns Family Nature Conservancy Regional Park
Johns Family Nature Conservancy is more than 400 hectares of parkland in south Kelowna with panoramic views of the Okanagan Valley and trails that lead to The Crags, a…
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Kelowna Nordic Ski and Snowshoe Club
Kelowna's own cross-country and snowshoe area lies in the McCulloch highlands southeast of the city, roughly 20 to 45 minutes from town on paved highway.
Dog-Friendly
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Penticton Outdoor Skating Rink (Gyro Park)
Penticton's free outdoor rink sits in Gyro Park at the foot of Martin Street, a short walk from the Okanagan Lake beach and the downtown cafés, and in the run-up to…
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Rodney's REEL Outdoors – Ice Fishing Charters
Rodney's REEL Outdoors turns the Okanagan's frozen mountain lakes into a proper winter day out.
Experience: Guided ice-fishing charters (mid-Dec onward)
Kid-Friendly
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Carmi Recreational Trails
The Carmi Recreational Trails are a loop network on the plateau east of Penticton, maintained as a recreation site by Recreation Sites and Trails BC, with the Okanagan…
Free to Visit
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Graystokes Snowmobile Area – Kelowna Snowmobile Club
The Graystokes is the Central Okanagan's big sledding country: a high plateau of meadows, bowls and forest roads east of Kelowna where the Kelowna Snowmobile Club…
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Kuipers' Peak Mountain Park
Kuipers' Peak Mountain Park in Kelowna's Upper Mission is a short hike with a big reward: five to ten minutes to the top, with some sections that will get your heart…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Knox Mountain Park
Knox Mountain is Kelowna's largest natural area park, 385 hectares rising roughly 300 metres above Okanagan Lake just north of downtown, and its lookouts are the classic…
♥ Local Favourite Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Crawford Trails – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Crawford is what Kelowna riders call the trail network in the western part of Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park, above the Upper Mission, reached from the Stewart Road East…
Free to Visit
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Vernon Snowmobile Association – Silver Star Trails
The Vernon Snowmobile Association is the oldest snowmobile club in British Columbia, riding since 1967, and its 160 kilometres of regularly groomed trails climb through…
Kid-Friendly
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Telemark Nordic Club
Telemark is the Central Okanagan's Nordic centre, 9 km up Glenrosa Road in West Kelowna on a paved and plowed road — a 25-minute drive from downtown Kelowna and 15…
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Lake View
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Stuart Park Outdoor Rink
Skating at Stuart Park is Kelowna's signature winter picture: a free outdoor rink on the downtown waterfront with Okanagan Lake and the Bennett Bridge as the backdrop…
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Myra Canyon – Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park
Myra Canyon is the Okanagan's signature rail-trail day: the historic Kettle Valley Railway grade curls around the canyon southeast of Kelowna on its trestles, and BC…
Dog-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit Arts & Culture
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Outback Snowmobile Tours – Big White
For the fastest way into Big White's backcountry, meet Outback Snowmobile Tours at the snowmobile hut tucked behind the Happy Valley skating rink.
Closed for the season.
Experience: Guided backcountry snowmobile tours
Kid-Friendly
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Tube Town – SilverStar Tube Park
Tube Town is SilverStar's answer to the question every family asks after a morning on the slopes: what now?
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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Ravenwood Snowshoe Dinner Tours – SilverStar
Ravenwood is SilverStar's newest way to spend a winter evening: a guided snowshoe through the darkening forest to the new Ravenwood Cabin, where dinner is waiting.
Closed for the season.
Experience: Guided snowshoe to a forest cabin dinner
Kid-Friendly
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Happy Valley Ice Skating Rink – Big White
At the top of the road to Big White, ringed by snow-ghosted trees and mountains, sits what the resort calls Canada's highest outdoor skating rink — an…
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Big White Nordic & Wilderness Trails
Away from the chairlifts, Big White keeps 25 kilometres of Nordic and Wilderness trails winding through the forest and meadows around Happy Valley — cross-country skiing…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Candle Creek Kennels – Dog Sled Tours at Big White
The most Canadian half hour you can spend at Big White starts at a small cabin in the Happy Valley Adventure Park, where the dogs are already singing.
Closed for the season.
Experience: Dog sled tours at Happy Valley
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SilverStar Fat Bike Trails
Who hasn't wanted to try a bike built for snow?
Closed for the season.
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Jeffers Park Skating Rink
Lavington's Jeffers Park rink is the kind of place that makes a Canadian winter: a covered outdoor sheet, built and run entirely by volunteers of the Lavington Community…
Closed for the season.
Free to Visit
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Okanagan Rec Rentals – Snowmobile Tours
Okanagan Rec Rentals is the way to snowmobile the SilverStar backcountry without owning a sled: the Vernon-based outfitter runs guided tours that depart from SilverStar…
Closed for the season.
Experience: Guided snowmobile tours from SilverStar
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Twinkling Trail – Big White
Big White's Twinkling Trail is an illuminated walking path through the snowy forest of the Happy Valley Adventure Park, lit from dusk to dawn from mid-December to April…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly
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Baldy Snowshoe Trails
Baldy's snowshoe trails are the quiet side of the South Okanagan's ski hill: about 13 kilometres of marked trail, by the resort's count, threading the high forest around…
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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Tim Hortons Tube Park – Apex
The Tim Hortons Tube Park is Apex's guaranteed-laughter option — the resort's own words are "thrown down the run", and that is about right.
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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SilverStar Cross-Country Ski Trails
SilverStar's own cross-country network is 55 kilometres of daily-groomed trail that starts right at the village — and with the neighbouring Sovereign Lake trails it…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly
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Brewer's Pond Skating – SilverStar
Brewer's Pond is two and a half acres of natural ice in SilverStar's Adventure Park, and skating on it feels the way skating is supposed to feel: outdoors, under the…
Closed for the season.
Kid-Friendly
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Nickel Plate Nordic Centre
Nickel Plate sits at 1,850 metres, 6.5 km past Apex Mountain Resort on the Hedley/Nickel Plate Road and about 45 minutes from downtown Penticton, and its elevation gives…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly
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Big White Horse-Drawn Sleigh Rides & Dining Tours
There is no quieter way to see Big White's forest than from under a blanket in a horse-drawn sleigh, the runners hissing over the snow and the trees ticking past in the…
Closed for the season. Reopens December 14.
Experience: Horse-drawn sleigh rides, with dinner tours
Kid-Friendly
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Adventure Skating Loop & Shinny Pond – Apex
Apex's Adventure Skating Loop is the thing visitors photograph and then can't quite explain to friends: a kilometre of Zamboni-smoothed ice looping through the forest…
Closed for the season.
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Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre
Sovereign Lake is Canada's largest cross-country ski and snowshoe club, set inside Silver Star Provincial Park 22 km east of Vernon up Silver Star Road, just 2 km west…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly
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SilverStar Snowshoe Trails
Sixteen kilometres of singletrack snowshoe trail weave through SilverStar's forest and the lower cross-country country, and they are the slow, quiet way to see the…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly
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Big White Tube Park (Happy Valley)
Big White's Tube Park is the loudest, happiest corner of Happy Valley: five specially groomed lanes dropping off the hillside, a tube lift that hauls fifty riders an…
Closed for the season.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly
Après & village eats
SilverStar: Black Pine, Bugaboos Bakery Cafe, Francuccino's Gelato and Fries, La Plata, Long John's Pub, Paradise Camp, Pizza Gratta, The Bulldog Grand Cafe Silver Star, The Den, The Red Antler, Town Hall, Tube Town Café & Bar, d'argento
Big White: 6° Bistro, Alpine Burger Co., Black Diamond Bar & Grill, Bullwheel, Cabin Kitchen + Bar at Whitefoot Lodge, Clocktower Coffee Co., Fat Marmot, Fourth Ace Bar & Smokehouse, Kettle Valley Steakhouse, Moonlight Bistro, Moose Lounge, SPUDS at The Ridge Day Lodge, Sasquatch Sushi, Snowshoe Sam's, Sopra: Sam's Italian Kitchen, The Market, The Woods Restaurant, Toasty, Underground Pizza, VISTA at Black Forest Day Lodge
Apex: Longshots Steak House, Pit Stop Cafeteria, The Artisan's Den at Apex, The Edge Bistro, The Gunbarrel Saloon
Baldy: Corduroy Cafe
