

Day Trips & Getaways
Forty-plus boutique Okanagan wineries on a 16-km lakeside road, best done by e-bike so nobody has to drive.
More infoSkip Kelowna and cross the lake to the Naramata Bench, a 16-kilometre ribbon above Okanagan Lake lined with more than 40 small-batch wineries. Rent e-bikes and pedal the old Kettle Valley Rail trail between cellar doors, which retires the designated-driver argument for good. It's four and a half hours from Vancouver, the universe's polite way of insisting you make it two nights.
door to door
~4.5 hours
from Vancouver
395 km
how long
2 nights
best window
June to October (harvest energy and warm lake swims late August to September)
Drive Hwy 1 to Hope, then the Coquihalla (Hwy 5) over to Merritt and Hwy 97 south through Summerland and Penticton, then 15 min up Naramata Rd. Or fly YVR→Kelowna (~1 hr) and drive ~50 min south to the bench, faster but you'll want a rental car to winery-hop.
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