Summerland & Peachland

We start our journey with a short drive around the town of Summerland, BC. From there we turn and head north on Hwy 97 (the highway with the best views) to the town of Peachland. Once in Peachland I'll take you for a nice drive along the amazing and quite long beach at Okanagan Lake.
Here's a link that tells you a bit about Rattle Snake Island. It also show a picture of the house that had the big statue on the balcony. www.kelownacap...

[@garyfrancis6193]

I grew up un Summerland in the 1950’s and 60’s. Nice to see a video as it is now. Our house was at where that apartment building is now on the right at 2:49. Across the street that building used to be Durnin Motors Chevrolet dealership in the 1950’s. Almost everything I knew as a kid is gone now except the mountains that haven’t changed a bit. It’s too bad that old Summerland had numerous fruit orchards in town. I remember well where they were. I think in summer they moderated the hot dry weather but now they are all gone the hot weather is probably more like it was in the desert before anything was built there. Summers must be brutal now up on the flat land above the lake. The original Summerland was below on the shore of Okanagan Lake. What you call “ Summerland “ was called “ West Summerland “ in the 1950’s to differentiate it from the original Summerland by the lake.

[@tonya.1697]

great video!
I'm not from the Okanagan, but used to visit cousins/aunt-uncle every year as a child thru adulthood. Only once drove thru Peachland as a quick detour on the way back from Kelowna back in the day. Beautiful little town, i'd consider moving there to retire and still be in the middle of the bigger communities..perfect spot.
By the way, from your video and other online Peachland related stuff, parking is free along the roadways.

[@garyfrancis6193]

You might have included “ Trepanier” which I don’t think exists anymore just south of Peachland. I recall as a kid it was judt a wide spot in the highway #97 with a Texaco station that had a round Rexaco sign with a big red star . That was common then. Texaco was “ Texas Oil Company “ sonthe big red star was the star of Texas. There might have been a cafe there but we never stopped passing through which took about two minutes.

[@00buck74]

Great video my man. What a beautiful drive

[@garyfrancis6193]

That is Rattlesnake Island across the lake from Peachland. I thought it was part of a provincial park or indigenous people’s land reserve. So it’s hard to believe a commercial venture was started in it. This island is supposed to be the home of the Ogopogo thus s sacred spot to the native people. In 1867 a farmer was taking some horses across the lake. The story was the horses were swimming when something pulled them under. This was the first encounter of a non native settler with the Ogopogo.

[@genieinabottle2404]

That was great! I've never driven all they way to the end of that road in Peachland because I always thought it was a dead end.