Skate Parks & BMX in the Okanagan
Skate parks, pump tracks and BMX tracks across the valley — free to ride, from beginner bowls to big street plazas.
22 verified sports & recreation spots across the Okanagan Valley.
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Armstrong Skate Park
Armstrong's skate park sits right beside the Nor-Val Arena on Park Drive, a short walk from Memorial Park and the outdoor pool. The township calls it perfect for all ages, and it works just as well for bikes and scooters as for skateboards. It has been a local hangout since the early 2000s and is lit for evening sessions.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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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. Adult and senior (55+) shinny fills Monday and Friday mornings from 10 to 11:30, with adult (19+) shinny on Wednesday, each $7.50. Late mornings bring a $2 all-ages Toonie Skate on Monday, a $2 adult and seniors' skate on Wednesday and a free parent-and-tot skate on Friday, and the Sunday Family Skate (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.) is $5, under-twos free. Bring your own skates; times can shift.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Creekside Park Skate Park
Creekside Park in Coldstream has one of the North Okanagan's biggest concrete skate parks, with banks, half pipes, ledges, rails, a manny pad and two bowls (a horseshoe and a bathtub). The same park has pickleball courts, a lacrosse box, ball fields, a playground and washrooms, so the whole family can find something to do. Leashed dogs are welcome in the park's dog area.
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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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. It's a straightforward, old-fashioned skate with no sticks or pucks, strollers welcome, everyone on the ice in skates and helmets strongly recommended. There's no skate rental, so bring your own, and don't leave children unattended. The 900-seat arena has a concession and is home to the Enderby Ice Hawks and local minor hockey, so check the posted cancellations or call 250-838-2665.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Enderby Skate Park
Enderby's skate park is a classic concrete park in Barnes Park, a block off the highway past the sports fields. It mixes concrete features with asphalt flat areas and suits local riders who want a relaxed session. Barnes Park also has the town's new outdoor pool, so it's easy to pair a skate with a swim on a hot day.
Free to Visit
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Kelowna BMX Track
Kelowna's BMX race track sits in Rutland Recreation Park, behind the Rutland arenas. Kelowna BMX runs practice and race nights through the riding season, and the club has hosted national-level events like the Firestorm Nationals. New riders are welcome to try the track at the club's open houses. Rutland Recreation Park also has public pickleball courts, washrooms and trails.
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Kelowna Memorial Arena
Memorial Arena is the old downtown rink on Ellis Street, a few blocks from the lake, with City of Kelowna public skating from October and a quieter Seniors Skate that regulars prize. There are no rentals, so bring skates or get them at Rutland Arena or the Stuart Park hut. Book at rec.kelowna.ca (bring your receipt) or pay cash at the door: $5, $4.25 for kids 6 to 13 and seniors 65+, free for preschoolers, $13.50 for families. Online sells only the general rate, so call 250-469-8800 for others.
Kid-Friendly
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Rutland Arena
Rutland Arena, or Rutland Twin Arena, is Kelowna's public-skating workhorse: two NHL-sized sheets on Dodd Road with public, parent-and-tot and seniors' skates from October. It is the easiest place to skate without gear, with skates to rent for $5, helmets $3, skate bars $2 and sharpening $7. Book at rec.kelowna.ca up to seven days ahead with your receipt, or pay cash at the door. Admission is $5, $4.25 for kids 6 to 13 and seniors 65+, free for preschoolers and $13.50 for families; call 250-469-8800 for reduced rates.
Kid-Friendly
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Winfield Arena
Winfield Arena is Lake Country's small-town rink on Bottom Wood Lake Road, and it keeps skating cheap: the Sunday (3 to 4 p.m.) and Wednesday (7 to 8 p.m.) public skates are free, and Friday's DJ Skate (7:30 to 9 p.m., cash only) is $2 for ages 8 to 17 and $4 for adults, with under-eights free. There are no rentals or sharpening, so bring skates; helmets are recommended. Friday Adult Shinny (9:15 p.m., $7, goalies free) is booked online from Thursday at 1 p.m. and fills fast.
Kid-Friendly
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Lumby Skate Park
Lumby's concrete skate park sits in Oval Park, across from Charles Bloom Secondary, with manny pads, rails, ledges, quarter pipes and a horseshoe bowl. Oval Park also has a running track, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground and a summer spray park, which makes it an easy stop for families. Note that dogs aren't permitted in the park.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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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.
Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Okanagan Falls Skate Park (Keogan Sports Park)
Okanagan Falls' skate park sits inside Keogan Sports Park, a flat 10-acre regional park with Peach Cliff rising behind it. Alongside the skate park you'll find ball diamonds, a well-regarded cricket pitch, picnic tables, washrooms and a large parking lot, so it's an easy stop for families.
Free to Visit
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Osoyoos Skate Park
The Town of Osoyoos skate park sits beside the Sun Bowl Arena on Hummingbird Lane. It's a free spot for skateboarders and other small-wheel riders.
Free to Visit
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Sun Bowl Arena
Skating in Canada's warmest town is free: the Rotary Club of Osoyoos sponsors public skating at the Sun Bowl Arena on Saturday (5:15 to 6:15 p.m.) and Sunday (3:30 to 4:45 p.m.), and the lobby Skate Library lends skates free. Bring a helmet, which is required. Monday and Wednesday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. is the Senior & Tot Skate, and Tuesday and Thursday is shinny for players 19+ in full gear. As home of the Osoyoos Coyotes, the arena sometimes bumps sessions for bookings, so check the town's calendar.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Lambly Park Skate Park & Courts
Peachland's skate park sits in Lambly Park, across Highway 97 from the Peachland mall, with rails, ramps and street obstacles to session. The same park has fenced tennis courts and pickleball courts, plus a 1 km outdoor fitness trail with 11 exercise stations along Harold's Walkway. It's a handy all-in-one stop for active families and teens in the heart of town.
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. Family Skate staff help with skate aids, Open Public Skate saves a third of the ice for under-fives with a guardian, Lap Skate (8+) is for fitness. Drop-in hockey runs for 16+ ($10) and 55+ ($8), plus Preschool Stick 'N Puck. Adults pay $5.50 and families $14, and skates rent for $4.25. Helmets are strongly recommended, with a few free loaners, and required for hockey. Book sessions online.
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups
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Penticton BMX Track
Penticton BMX's club track sits at the foot of Munson Mountain, a 300–400 m dirt course of jumps, rollers and banked berms. The club runs race nights and family-friendly events through the season, and spectators are welcome. The track is on public land and open daily from 9 am to dusk, April through October, weather permitting; please stay off it when it's wet. E-bikes are not permitted.
Kid-Friendly
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Penticton Youth Park (Skate Park)
Penticton's Youth Park at Riverside Park is a 30,000-square-foot skateboard and BMX park whose bowl is considered one of the largest of its kind in B.C. Skaters, scooter riders, bikers and bladers of every level will find ramps, rails, stairs and street features, plus full-size basketball courts and covered spectator seating. Lighting stays on until 10 p.m., and helmets are mandatory.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Summerland Skatepark
A 10,000 sq ft concrete skatepark opened in 2019, with modern street features and a bowl. It's built for skateboards, scooters, BMX bikes and inline skates, so younger riders on scooters and push bikes use it too. It sits on the corner of Jubilee Road and Rosedale Avenue, a short walk from downtown Summerland.
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Vernon BMX Track (Ranger Park)
Vernon BMX runs a sanctioned dirt BMX race track in Ranger Park, in the BX area just north of downtown. Club practices are usually Monday evenings and local races Tuesday nights from spring into October, and a BMX Canada membership is required to ride club sessions. It's a great way for young riders to try gate starts, berms and rhythm sections.
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Vernon Recreation Complex – Priest Valley Arena & Centennial Outdoor Rink
Vernon's Recreation Complex on 35th Avenue offers two kinds of ice. Outside, the Centennial Outdoor Rink is free from December through February, with public skating and shinny, weather permitting. Inside, Priest Valley Arena, home to Vernon's skating and ringette clubs, hosts public skating and adult drop-in hockey; register ahead and get a wristband. Skaters 12 and under need a CSA hockey helmet and an adult (no bike helmets). Bring skates: there are no rentals. Local residents, including Coldstream and the Okanagan Indian Band, get 50% off with photo ID.
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Mount Boucherie Arenas – Jim Lind Arena & Royal LePage Place
West Kelowna's Mount Boucherie Complex pairs Jim Lind Arena, the community rink, with Royal LePage Place, home of the West Kelowna Warriors, for a full drop-in ice program. Expect public, family and adult-only (19+) skates, an Adaptive Skate (support persons free, ice cleats for non-skaters) and Big & Little for parents with kids under six, the only session allowing strollers. Hockey players get Stick & Puck and Noon Hour Hockey, which needs advance registration. Adults pay $5.85, families $14; skates rent for $2.95. No skate aids in public sessions.
Kid-Friendly
More places to play
Parks with skate parks, courts and bike trails, and more, listed with their own categories.
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Becker Bike Park
Becker Bike Park is the City of Vernon’s in-town bike skills park at 3404 39th Avenue, re-opened in August 2024 after a rebuild funded by more than $70,000 in grants and donations to the City and the North Okanagan Cycling Society. The park packs three pump tracks — including a paved track that Tourism Vernon calls a new local favourite — a gradually climbing trail, a flow trail for beginner to intermediate riders, a dirt-jump zone with progression lines and a drop zone into a compact site, which makes it a good place to bring young riders to build skills or to bang out fast laps. The park also includes an on-leash dog area and walking paths. Parking arrangements and costs are not published on the City’s page.
Play: Paved pump track, dirt jumps, drop zone and skills trails
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Ben Lee Park
Ben Lee Park is Rutland's big family park, with a playground, basketball courts, a skate park and a water park. The City added new water features and upgrades for summer 2026, so it's an easy place to let kids cool off on a hot day.
Play: Skate park with bowl, stair sets and rails, plus basketball courts
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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City Park – Hot Sands Beach
Hot Sands is the long sandy beach inside Kelowna’s City Park, where a swim can turn into a whole day. The swimming area sits beside a floating aqua park, and back from the water there is a children’s waterpark (May long weekend to early September), a playground, sand volleyball courts and even a skateboard park, with mobile and static concession stands so nobody has to leave to eat. Washrooms and change rooms are on site, and the water is tested by Interior Health through the summer. The City Park lot off Abbott Street is pay parking (291 spaces, $1.50 an hour, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily in summer), and its gate is locked from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Dogs can use the on-leash and off-leash dog run in the park but not the beach.
Play: Lit skate park and beach volleyball courts (league nights Mon–Thu)
Kid-Friendly Lake View Free to Visit
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Lions Park (Oliver)
Lions Park on Oliver's Main Street is a family park with a playground, a small-wheels skate park, an outdoor fitness loop and a covered pavilion. It also has a fenced year-round off-leash dog area, picnic tables, and washrooms with coin-operated showers.
Play: Small Wheels skate park; pump track in development
Dog-Friendly Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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Memorial Park & Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre
Memorial Park sits beside the Johnson Bentley Aquatic Centre in Westbank and is home to the Annette Beaudreau Amphitheatre. On summer Friday evenings it hosts the free Music in the Park concert series, with Okanagan Lake as the backdrop, and it's also the base for Westside Daze. The park also has a skate park, with advanced and beginner bowls plus a street section.
Play: Skate park with advanced and beginner bowls plus street section
Kid-Friendly Live Music Free to Visit
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Mission Creek Mountain Bike Skills Park
The Mission Creek Mountain Bike Skills Park is a City of Kelowna bike park on a 3.4-hectare site at 1960 Hollywood Road South, next to the Mission Creek Greenway. Whether you are new to mountain or BMX biking or riding at a high level, it has something to work on: a pump track and four dirt-jump lanes that progress from beginner to expert, with some of the sport’s top riders having contributed to the design. It is also a good spot to catch your breath on a bench and watch the airtime the advanced riders get. Riders can roll in directly from the Greenway, and the City keeps the park open through its seasonal winter closures of other facilities. Parking arrangements and costs are not published on the City’s page.
Play: Pump track and four dirt jump lanes, beginner to expert
Dog-Friendly Free to Visit
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Polson Park
Polson Park is Vernon's central green space, best known for its Floral Clock, installed in 1958, and its Japanese Garden and Chinese pagoda. Two ponds draw plenty of waterfowl, and there are walking trails, a running track, a skate park, tennis courts and a wheelchair-accessible playground. The Okanagan Science Centre and Vernon Heritage Hall are right in the park, so it's easy to fill a family afternoon here.
Play: Skate park and tennis courts
Kid-Friendly Great for Groups Free to Visit
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Swalwell Park & Trethewey Splash Park
Swalwell Park is Winfield's central community park, with a playground and the Trethewey Splash Park, plus sports fields, a skatepark and public sculptures. It's a handy stop for families with kids to burn off energy. The splash park is seasonal and is closed until spring 2027.
Play: Skate park
Kid-Friendly Free to Visit
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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. The alpine terrain runs to 3,304 acres and 133 runs over 760 metres of vertical, served by ten lifts including the Des Schumann Summit Express gondola, with long green and blue cruisers off the front side, steep powder-filled chutes on the Putnam Creek backside and three terrain parks; on Friday and Saturday nights the lights come on for four kilometres of groomed night skiing and the Bannister Night Park at Silver Queen. The resort's My1Pass idea is what sets it apart: one day ticket or season pass unlocks seven activities — downhill, cross-country skiing on the resort's 55-kilometre half of Canada's largest daily-groomed Nordic network, 16 kilometres of snowshoe trail, 15 kilometres of fat-bike trail, skating on Brewer's Pond, tubing at Tube Town and (with a season pass) night skiing — each of which has its own page on Okanagan Roam. Volunteer Mountain Hosts lead free guided tours of the alpine and Nordic trails every morning from Town Hall, snow-cat dinners run to Paradise Camp on the backside, and the new Ravenwood cabin hosts snowshoe dinner tours. The Nordic trails open on November 20, 2026 and the alpine season runs November 27, 2026 to April 4, 2027. Summer turns the same slopes into the SilverStar Bike Park — the resort describes it as one of Canada's best downhill mountain-bike experiences, with downhill, enduro and cross-country riding, skills areas and a pump track — while walkers and trail runners have 16 km of forest and mountain trails: the easy Paradise, Mountain View, Tin Tin and Sidewinder loops out of the village, the hiking-only Silver Queen Trail, and, from the top of the Des Schumann Summit Express gondola at 1,915 metres — some 300 metres above the village — the Ridge Walk (no bikes), the Attridge Scenic Loop and the Alpine Meadows. Hikers pick up a complimentary trail day ticket at the Ticket Office; Monday to Thursday the summit is reached by the Comet Express after a gentle 20-minute walk down to the lift. The resort publishes no dog rule for its trails, and the surrounding regional district requires dogs on leash unless in a designated off-leash area. Lessons, rentals, restaurants, cafés and lodging are in the resort village.
Closed for the season. Reopens November 27.
Play: Lift-served bike park (DH, enduro, XC), pump track, slopestyle; hosts Crankworx
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