Camping

Many hikes will require Camping out for one or more nights. Learn how you can camp for free!

Monashee lake is a beautiful alpine lake nestled in the Monashees just past Cherryville. This hike takes you into the heart of an area known as The Pinnacles. To reach this alpine paradise drive east of Cherryville and follow South Forks FSR off of Hwy 6. Watch out for signs posted that will direct you [...]

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Aberdeen Lake is one of the most northern lakes on the Aberdeen plateau. Buck Hills Rd wraps around the North side of the lake where there is access to many individual free private camp sites. If you know you are at the lake and you see a road heading towards it, chances are it leads [...]

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Loon Lake is one of the many lakes on the Aberdeen Plateau. Access to the lakes is from Philpot Road off of Highway 33 or Beaver Lake Road from Winfield. If accessing from Beaver Dee Lake road, follow the road past both Beaver and Dee lake resorts until you are on Aberdeen Rd, just past [...]

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Tags: Camping, Campsite, fly-fishing, Free Camping, Recreation Site

Grizzly lake is a fairly large lake accessible to 2wd vehicles and roughly only an hour from Kelowna. Grizzly lake has multiple sites along the side of the lake, all can be driven right up to. This is a convenient lake to launch small fishing boats into.       To access Grizzly Lake From [...]

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Tags: Campground, Camping, Campsite, forest service roads, Free Camping, FSR, Recreation Site

The first time I was at Little Dipper Campground was in 2002. It was a nice little campground situated on the banks of the winding Kettle River. It is still a nice campground with the same beautiful sandy beaches and spacious campsites but now the owners have crafted an incredible log home / office and [...]

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Conkle Lake Provincial Park from Kelowna is almost a two hour drive. From Kelowna the drive down Highway 33 is a beautiful drive and it just gets better after you take Rhone Rd, past Little Dipper Hideaway (campground) and take the steep Conkle Forest Service Rd. The distance to Conkle Lake from Rhone Rd. is [...]

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It’s only about 30 km from Winfield near Kelowna but it takes about an hour to drive to Doreen Lake. The Forest Service Recreation Site is a fantastic site with aobut 10 known campsites and with a couple of outhouses. (the one I used on July 23 2011 wasn’t too clean though) The campground is [...]

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Tags: Boating, Canoeing, Fishing, Free Camping

There was a sign for Belgo Dam recreation site that I found as I went into Ideal Lake Rec site. Belgo Dam is part of Ideal Lake – one of the three dams. A great camping spot or two can be found so to get to Belgo Dam, check out the directions on the Ideal [...]

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Tags: Fishing, Free Camping, resevoir dam