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Garnet Valley (Thompson Okanagan)
  1. Chuchuwayha 2 (Summerland, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
2. Darke Lake Park (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Darke Lake Park after Robert Darke, who settled in the area in the 1890s.
  3. Faulder (Summerland, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  4. Garnet Valley (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  5. Greata (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  6. Okanagan Lake Park (Summerland, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  7. Penticton 3A (Summerland, 5km) - Leave a Public Review
  8. Prairie Valley (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  9. Shingle Creek (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
10. Summerland (District) (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 494-6451 - Leave a Public Review
Summerland - The townsite here was laid out and named in 1902 by John Moore Robinson, the founder of Peachland and Naramata. The name refers to the sunny Okanagan climate. West Summerland was originally known as Siwash Flats.
  11. Trout Creek (Summerland, 5km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  12. Browne Lake Ecological Reserve (Naramata, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
13. Chute Lake (Naramata, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Chute Lake from the French word for a waterfall or rapid.
  14. Medicine Hill 11 (Naramata, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  15. Myra-Bellevue Park (Naramata, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
  16. Myra-Bellevue Protected Area (Naramata, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
17. Naramata / Arawana ~ Creek (Naramata, 10km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
Naramata - John Moore Robinson, who founded Naramata in 1907, tells us that he got the name -
  18. Sun-Oka Beach Park (Naramata, 10km) - Leave a Public Review
19. Peachland (District) / Mount Kathleen / Trépanier Creek (Peachland, 15km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 767-2647 - Leave a Public Review
Mount Kathleen - John Moore Robinson, the founder of Peachland, Summerland, and Naramata, named this mountain after his wife, Catherine. Of Irish descent, Robinson preferred 'Kathleen' to 'Catherine.'
  20. Trépanier (Peachland, 15km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  21. Kickininee Park (Penticton, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
22. Penticton (City) / Ellis Creek / Kickininee Park / Mount Nkwala / Shatford Creek / Shingle Creek (Penticton, 18km) Your Host(s): Municipal Administration, Phone: (250) 490-2400 - Leave a Public Review
Ellis Creek - After Tom Ellis (1845-1918), a young Irishman who arrived in the Penticton area in 1865 and became the first settler here.
  23. Penticton 1 (Penticton, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  24. Penticton 2 (Penticton, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  25. Poplar Grove (Penticton, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review
  26. Skaha Bluffs Park (Penticton, 18km) - Leave a Public Review
  27. West Bench (Penticton, 18km) Your Host(s): Canada Post - Leave a Public Review