By car, horse or sleigh, there are some great winter travel routes in the Monashee. Explore great country style dining experiences, the many art studios and maybe some special events, even a spa. You can book a group shuttle complete with an experienced guide. Explore scenic walkways in a winter wonderland!
Stay at world-class accommodation at Lakeside Illahee Inn only minutes from the Kelowna Airport. After a day of destination skiing and snowshoeing, enjoy luxury complete with a spa treatment. An ideal base camp for your Monashee snow adventure complete.
2. Relax
Comfort mixed with wilderness and adrenalin are the key ingredients to a better life. Why drive? Your family and group can be shuttled from your snow experience to great accommodation. How about a heritage cabin surrounded by forest and overlooking a
3. Ice-skating,
Ice Fishing and Tobogganing
A weekend of Fishing, skating and tobogganing, is a combination you simply can't find at a ski village.and its so quiet you can hear the snow fall. At the end of the day, curl up next to a wood fireplace in an old fashion heritage log cabin.
Frozen ponds and lakes adorn the Monashee. There's nothing like a blanket of snow covering the trees and a fire at the edge of a pond rink. Many of the backcounty lodges have skating rinks right outside your cabin door.
Explore snow using a historical mode of travel, snowshoes. This is great fun for the whole family or groups of friends. It's easy with no skill required. Park Mountain, Coyote Sleeping (The Camels Hump) are a few places where you can take a day-trek snowshoeing. Perhaps hire a shuttle service like Winds & Rivers, they can provide an entire group with a snowshoeing experience, which includes the snowshoes.
5. Backcountry ski and ski and...
The Monashee is a great destination for X-country Ski enthusiasts. It will get you and your friends back to an original ski experience, away from the crowds. Try the alpine at Keefer Lake Resort, if you want to get above the clouds and into the sun.
Closer to the B&B's try Park Mountain with its great views. Saddle Mountain and Coyote Sleeping (The Camels Hump) provide great views of the foothills and is a chance to mix your skiing with ice fishing and snowshoeing.
and Ski
Powder like no other place on earth. Experience world-class downhill skiing and mountain touring in real mountains. These aren't ski "hills" this is what skiing was meant to be like. Try guided backcountry skiing with SOL Mountain Touring or Valkyr Adventures.
Escape the city for a weekend of Canadian winter in the country. After an outdoor adventure relax at The Lodge Inn Cherryville for a body treatment (massage, Reki, reflexology) followed by an extraordinary dinner and a quiet comfy night. Saturday begins with a fabulous gourmet breakfast followed by horse-drawn sleigh or wagon ride in the "Ville" to visit our wonderful artisans shop with a scrumptious local lunch at Marie's Eclectic Cuisine then back to the Lodge for another body treatment and sauna.
Later dinner is at the Kokanee Resort at Sugar Lake followed by another night back at the Inn. Sunday begins lazily with a light breakfast and another spa treatment and then a light lunch to send you on your way totally satiated and satisfied!
This On-line Guide will help you find those great experiences to explore remote BC snow. Visit the rest of the HighlandTreks.com website to learn more about the Monashee Circle Drive and great backcountry escapes. Consider this portal as a primer to explore where the desert of the Okanagan Valley meets interior rainforests and alpine meadows.
7. Explore Hotsprings
Take a weekend and then some. travel Highway 6 to Nakusp, explore the scenic Arrow Lakes and take a soak in Nakusp and Halcyon Hotsprings one of BC's natural wonders. There's great accommodation available and there's much to see. Maybe you could discover some wild hotsprings, dine in Nakusp and stroll the village walkway on the lakefront. Hey what about a circle tour to Revelstoke and the Shuswap!
Imagine... A log cabin in a magical winter forest, a frozen lake and a warm hearth
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Accommodation in the Monashees with a wellness edge!
Meal plans including vegetarian options as well as juice fasting.
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winter pleasure...
ILLAHEE INN
Relax in luxury after a day of magical snow.
Spacious Rooms and Suites
Elegant Waterfront Boutique Inn
Where hospitality links with nature, on the shore of beautiful Kalamalka Lake adjoining a large nature park and minutes from the Sovereign Lakes Ski Trails and the Monashee Alpine area.
SOL MOUNTAIN TOURING
Purely in the Monashees
Sol Mountain Touring offers fully guided backcountry skiing and snowshoeing.
Smack in the middle of the Southern Monashee snowbelt.
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HALCYON HOT SPRINGS
Relax and Enjoy Our Natural Healing Waters
Mineral pools, day lodge, full service spa, accommodation, licensed restaurant and lounge, RV sites and outdoor adventure.
SPORTS RENT
Your Winter Sports Headquarters
Sports Rent Kelowna offers exceptional Winter Sports equipment for rent.
We have everything ranging from downhill skis to snowboarding to snowshoeing and more. Please take a moment to browse our complete line of equipment and rental prices.
