Outdoor Destinations in West Kelowna, BC

Glen Canyon Regional Park

Glen Canyon runs for 95 hectares along Powers Creek in West Kelowna, and its trails offer everything from easy creek-side walks to challenging stairs and terrain, with views of the canyon's unusual geology and a 24-metre waterfall. Washrooms are on site, there is a viewpoint, and dogs are welcome on leash. The parking lot is off Gellatly Road South; the Brown Road vehicle entrance is closed from November 1 to April 1 when maintenance is reduced. Hours shift with the seasons, from 6 a.m. to between 6 and 11 p.m. The park is maintained with the help of the Gellatly Bay Trails and Parks Society. The Regional District's designated routes are the 2.3 km Glen Canyon Greenway, rated moderate, the easy 800-metre Doe Trail and the short Buck Trail, with informal paths branching through the canyon; Visit Westside splits the park into a north half of over 4 km and a south half of 2.2 km one way with stairs. The upper canyon is currently under a partial hazard closure, so respect the barriers.

💎 Hidden Gem

Goats Peak Regional Park

Goats Peak rises steeply from the shore of Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna, and the payoff for the climb is a lookout with stunning lake and valley views beside towering rock bluffs. A rocky trail crosses protected grassland before a challenging climb through open woodland to the peak; the waterfront sections of this 63-hectare park are conservation areas for shore-spawning kokanee. A washroom is on site and dogs are welcome on leash. Park in the lot off Seclusion Bay Road, near the exits for Highway 97 and the Okanagan Connector, or use the newer access with limited street parking on Whitworth Road. Hours shift seasonally, from 6 a.m. to between 6 and 11 p.m., with reduced maintenance from November 1 to April 1. Two designated trails cover the park: the 1.3 km Big Sagebrush Trail through the grassland, rated moderate, and the 1.4 km Mountain Goat Trail up to the peak, rated difficult by the Regional District.

Lambly (Bear) Lake Recreation Site

Lambly Lake — Bear Lake to everyone on the Westside — is 22 free campsites on a quiet electric-motor lake up the Bear Main forest road, about forty minutes from West Kelowna's traffic. Perch and trout for the kids, no reservations, no holding sites for friends, and no generators after dinner. Not to be confused with Bear Creek Provincial Park on the lake below, which is where the pavement ends and this road begins.

Mount Boucherie Arenas – Jim Lind Arena & Royal LePage Place

West Kelowna's two arenas sit side by side at the Mount Boucherie Complex — Jim Lind Arena, the community rink, and Royal LePage Place, home of the West Kelowna Warriors — and between them they run one of the fullest drop-in ice programs in the valley. Public and family skates are the anchor, with adult-only sessions for a calmer glide, an adaptive skate, and Big & Little sessions where parents skate with toddlers (helmets mandatory, and it is the only session where strollers are allowed on the ice). Hockey players get Adult Stick & Puck, a Kids Stick & Puck and Ring session that requires a full cage, and Noon Hour Hockey, a registered drop-in scrimmage where booking ahead guarantees a spot. Admission is $5.85 for adults, $4.35 for youth 13 to 18 and seniors 55 and over, $3.50 for children 5 to 12 and seniors 75+, $1.75 for tots under five, or $14 for a family, and skate rentals are $2.95 a pair. The City publishes the season's schedules as downloadable calendars, so check the current one for times; skate aids are not permitted in the public sessions.

Mount Boucherie – Boucherie Rush Trail

Mount Boucherie is West Kelowna's extinct volcano, and the Boucherie Rush Trail is the way up it: about 6 km round trip, one to three hours, with 275 metres of elevation gain to the 758-metre summit and panoramic views over Okanagan Lake and the valley from the old lava flows. Visit Westside rates it moderate to difficult; the northeast face is for experienced hikers only. The trailhead is the City's Boucherie greenspace at 2775 East Boundary Road (via Bartley Road), with overflow parking at the Darroch Park ball diamonds, and the City lists dogs permitted on leash there. Part of the mountain is private property, so obey the signs, and the City closes trails at times for wildfire-mitigation work.

Okanagan Bucktail Co.

Okanagan Bucktail Co. is Captain Geoff Hartland, one well-used boat and a fly box nobody else has: guided trolling charters for trophy rainbow trout and kokanee, fished with bucktail flies he ties by hand in West Kelowna and includes free on every trip. Okanagan Lake is the home water, fished year-round, with charters departing from the West Kelowna Yacht Club at 4111 Gellatly Road (the yacht club is the meeting point, with parking on site — the fishing itself is out on the lake) and the best trophy fishing from October through April when the big rainbows come up to chase bait near the surface; charters also run on Kalamalka, Skaha, Osoyoos and Mabel lakes. Rates are $500 for a half day and $800 for a full day per boat, all gear included, and if you are staying somewhere on Okanagan Lake with a dock he can pick you up there. Bookings are by call or text. A BC freshwater fishing licence is required.

Rodney's REEL Outdoors – Ice Fishing Charters

Rodney's REEL Outdoors turns the Okanagan's frozen mountain lakes into a proper winter day out. Ice-fishing charters run from mid-December, once the ice is safe, through late March: you meet the guide in West Kelowna at 8 a.m., drive up to a trout lake — and, depending on the snow, either park at the shore or ride the last stretch in by snowmobile — and fish until the return around 5 p.m. Everything is supplied: rods rigged with tungsten jigs, spoons and flies, a gas auger, an underwater camera to watch the rainbow, brook trout and perch come in, a six-man ice hut for the cold or windy days, a fire on shore, and a hot lunch of smokies roasted over the coals with snacks and hot chocolate, plus fish cleaning and bagging at the end. Ice charters are full-day only and priced per trip rather than per person — $900 for one or two anglers and $1,000 for three or four, plus GST and gratuity, with a lunch upgrade available — and take up to four anglers per guide. A BC freshwater fishing licence is required and not included; buy it online before the day. The same outfitter runs open-water charters on the big lakes the rest of the year.

Rose Valley Regional Park

Rose Valley Regional Park is 250 ha of natural parkland in the Rose Valley neighbourhood of West Kelowna, with a network of multi-use trails, spectacular views over the valley, a conservation area and a natural pond where birds and other wildlife can be spotted. The park was badly burned in the 2023 McDougall Creek wildfire and is recovering through a phased, large-scale restoration effort, including volunteer tree planting. As of May 2026 the Regional District reports it partially re-opened with some areas still closed to visitors — observe the barricades and signage and check the RDCO wildfire-recovery page before you go. Washrooms are provided and dogs are welcome on leash. Visit Westside describes the main circuit as about 6 km round trip with roughly 80 metres of elevation gain, moderate to difficult, taking two to four hours.

Shannon Lake Regional Park

A peaceful West Kelowna lakeside park with a floating dock, short shoreline trails and picnic tables. Each spring park interpreters run the popular "Go Fish" program that teaches kids to cast their first line.

Smith Creek Trails

Smith Creek is a sanctioned mountain-bike trail network on the forested hills northwest of West Kelowna, managed as a Recreation Sites and Trails BC trail in partnership with the West Kelowna Trails Club and supported by Mountain Bikers of the Central Okanagan. About 15 km of routes offer anywhere from one to four hours of riding, with 400 to 700 metres of climbing depending on the loop; the lower elevations hold beginner trails and the fitness and technical difficulty rise as you climb, into flowy descents, natural-feature jumps and drops and smooth singletrack. Access is from Highway 97 via Elliott Road onto Smith Creek Road, which turns to gravel; parking is in a clearing on the right just after the overhead power line. Provincial recreation-trail rules ask that pets be kept quiet and under control at all times; parking costs are not published.

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 minutes from downtown West Kelowna, with the parking lot 3 km before Crystal Mountain. The club grooms more than 50 km of cross-country trails for skate and classic skiing, several of them lit for night skiing, and maintains 60 km of snowshoe trails through quiet ponderosa forest, with rentals and lessons for all levels and a lodge with a fire to warm up beside. Day passes are straightforward: a one-day ski pass is $22 for adults and $11 for youth, night skiing $13 and $6.50, a snowshoe pass $11 and $5.50, and the K9 trail $6, all including GST, with children under six free. The lodge sits at about 1,000 metres.

Your trip