Disc Golf in the Okanagan
Disc golf courses through parks, pines and hillsides — most are free to play, so bring a disc and go.
5 verified sports & recreation spots across the Okanagan Valley.
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Chip Trail Disc Golf
Chip Trail is Armstrong's free nine-hole disc golf course, winding through rolling grassland and big fir trees beside Pleasant Valley Secondary. Holes run mostly 200 to 300 feet with brick tee pads and DISCatcher baskets, and a round takes under an hour. Play is after 4 p.m. on school days and dawn to dusk otherwise; park at the school, and note no dogs or washrooms.
Free to Visit
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Rotary Marina View Disc Golf Course
A short, free 9-hole disc golf course near Marina Way at the north end of Penticton, with paver tee pads and baskets on every hole. The holes are short and open (about 1,200 ft in all), which makes it a good first course for beginners and kids, though the ground is hilly. There's no drinking water or washroom on the course, so bring what you need.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Lakers Park Disc Golf Course
Lakers Park in Okanagan Landing has a free nine-hole disc golf course laid out around the old Lakers golf course, with short, all-par-3 holes that make it a friendly spot for beginners. The park also has a playground, on-leash walking paths that link to Marshall Fields, and ponds and wetlands that are home to the Great Basin spadefoot toad. There are no washrooms or drinking water on site, so come prepared.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Wild Horse Disc Golf Course
The Central Okanagan's go-to disc golf course right now, a free nine-hole, par-27 layout in Wild Horse Park in West Kelowna's Smith Creek neighbourhood. Holes mix open turf and wooded fairways with gentle elevation changes, and a round takes roughly 35 minutes, so it's a great pick for beginners and families. The local disc golf association has moved its league nights here while Knox Mountain is closed. There are no washrooms or drinking water on site, so bring your own.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Big White Disc Golf Course
Big White's free nine-hole disc golf course winds across a beginner ski area just below the Village Centre, reached on foot through the tunnel toward Happy Valley. Bring your own discs or rent a single disc or a driver, mid-range and putter set in the Village Centre Mall. It's an easy add-on to a summer day of hiking or riding the bike park, and you can track your round in the UDisc app.
Closed for the season.
Free to Visit
More places to play
Parks with skate parks, courts and bike trails, and more, listed with their own categories.
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Lumby Golf Club
Lumby Golf Club is a municipal nine-hole course just east of the village, open since 1963 and known for its unusual sand greens and mountain views. It's a relaxed, no-fuss round for a summer evening, and the property also has a disc golf course for anyone who'd rather throw than swing.
Play: 18-hole disc golf course (The Foggy Basket), $5 a day
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Oliver Community Park
Oliver Community Park is the town's main green space, with a free nine-hole disc golf course, an accessible playground, tennis and pickleball courts and a lit basketball court. An 850 m paved pathway loops through the park and links to the International Hike and Bike Trail, and dogs can run off-leash here from dawn to 9am.
Play: 9-hole disc golf course, 3 tennis and 4 pickleball courts (free)
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Three Blind Mice Trail Network
The Three Blind Mice trail network spreads across the benchland above Penticton toward Naramata, overlooking Okanagan Lake, and is the South Okanagan’s best-known mountain-bike area: Visit Penticton counts more than 80 trails, and trail-mapping sites chart over 100 of them, winding through ponderosa pine, rock bluffs and grassland from intermediate singletrack to expert technical lines. The core of the network is a City of Penticton natural park at 1400 Riddle Road, and the Penticton and Area Cycling Association looks after the trails. Riders commonly start from the Poplar Grove parking area off Naramata Road; parking costs are not published. Close by, beside the KVR Trail at 1194 Poplar Grove Road, the City’s asphalt pump track gives riders of all ages a loop of rollers and berms to practise on. Trail signage is limited, so carry a trail app, and note that no official e-bike or dog rules are published for the network. Beside the bike trails, the Penticton Disc Golf Club's 18-hole disc golf course is another way to explore the benchland.
Play: 18-hole disc golf course (Penticton Disc Golf Club) beside the MTB trails
Lake View Free to Visit
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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 north-east-facing terrain that catches the region's dry champagne powder, about 500 cm of it a year. Its 85 runs break down as 11 novice, 27 intermediate and 43 advanced, served by a high-speed quad, a triple chair, a T-bar and a magic carpet, and four terrain parks step up from the kids' Little Nuggets through Okanagan and Prospector to the big-feature Claim Jumper. Friday and Saturday nights are Apex's signature: from 4 to 9 pm the T-bar and Magic Carpet run under lights for night skiing on the Okanagan Run and the lit Okanagan Terrain Park, the tube park glows for night tubing, the skating loop is open late from its new Skate Shack, and the Gunbarrel Saloon — voted Canada's best après-ski bar ten times running — sits at the bottom of the run; Friday nights come with half-price lift tickets and rentals. Off the slopes, the Tim Hortons Tube Park and the kilometre-long Adventure Skating Loop through the trees each have their own page on Okanagan Roam, and Nickel Plate Nordic Centre is 6.5 km further up the road. When you arrive, take a left at the Y for the main parking lot; a winter shuttle runs from Penticton on weekends. The ski area operates in winter only; outside ski season, a free 9-hole alpine disc golf course is laid out by the ski hill parking lot.
Closed for the season.
Play: 9-hole alpine disc golf course (free, seasonal) by the ski hill lot
Kid-Friendly