Please
take into consideration that this writing was several years in the
making; things have changed from one year to the next as we completed
this trek a section at a time. All distances mentioned are
approximate.
This section of KVR railbed is NON MOTORIZED...
In the early Fall of 2019, we cycled a small portion of the rail-trail from Penticton to Okanagan Falls, along the West side of Skaha Lake. Access to the trail is at the North end of Skaha Lake, by passing through Wright's Beach Camp and locating the trail along the shore, at the Southern end of the campsite, at N 49.448204° W 119.609061°.
This section of KVR railbed is NON MOTORIZED...
Shortly after leaving Wright's
In the early Fall of 2019, we cycled a small portion of the rail-trail from Penticton to Okanagan Falls, along the West side of Skaha Lake. Access to the trail is at the North end of Skaha Lake, by passing through Wright's Beach Camp and locating the trail along the shore, at the Southern end of the campsite, at N 49.448204° W 119.609061°.
It is roughly 13 km from end to end, and passes through Banbury
Green RV Park and the community of Kaleden.
In Kaleden, the trail seems to disappear after the tennis courts. If you jump back onto Ponderosa avenue (the street you have been paralleling for the last km or so) and follow it to its end, at the Ponderosa Point Resort, you will pick it up again at N 49.380835° W 119.578728°.
Approximately 4 km later, you will arrive at the refurbished trestle that crosses the outlet of the lake and enter the town of Okanagan Falls. If you wish to follow the rail trail from this point southward, you need to ride asphalt for several kms until you reach Oliver.
The return trip is just as scenic, albeit with another perspective. The attentive will observe an occasional mileage marker or telegraph pole...or remnants of the old timbers in the trail.
From OK Falls, the old railbed travels through some private (or leased) land and the trestle that would cross at Vaseux Lake, no longer exists.
This is as far south as we went for now.
In Kaleden, the trail seems to disappear after the tennis courts. If you jump back onto Ponderosa avenue (the street you have been paralleling for the last km or so) and follow it to its end, at the Ponderosa Point Resort, you will pick it up again at N 49.380835° W 119.578728°.
Rebuilt foot-trestle at Okanagan Falls
Approximately 4 km later, you will arrive at the refurbished trestle that crosses the outlet of the lake and enter the town of Okanagan Falls. If you wish to follow the rail trail from this point southward, you need to ride asphalt for several kms until you reach Oliver.
The return trip is just as scenic, albeit with another perspective. The attentive will observe an occasional mileage marker or telegraph pole...or remnants of the old timbers in the trail.
From OK Falls, the old railbed travels through some private (or leased) land and the trestle that would cross at Vaseux Lake, no longer exists.
This is as far south as we went for now.
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