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# West Kelowna

West Kelowna, formerly known as Westside and colloquially known as Westbank, is a city in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley on the west shore of Okanagan Lake.

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## Every way there

- Victoria → West Kelowna 317 km · quickest by air, 3h 58m · C$170–260 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/victoria-to-west-kelowna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Victoria&to=West+Kelowna)
- Vancouver → West Kelowna 264 km · quickest by air, 3h 40m · C$130–200 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/vancouver-to-west-kelowna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Vancouver&to=West+Kelowna)
- Calgary → West Kelowna 411 km · quickest by air, 3h 54m · C$160–240 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/calgary-to-west-kelowna) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Calgary&to=West+Kelowna)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around West Kelowna, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What West Kelowna has

- Y Scheduled flights Kelowna (YLW), 18 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 26 timetable feeds for this country, 1 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

49.862°, -119.583°

The city encompasses several neighbourhoods, including Casa Loma, Gellatly, Glenrosa, Lakeview Heights, Shannon Lake, Smith Creek, Rose Valley, Westbank, and West Kelowna Estates. As of 2021, West Kelowna had an estimated population of 36,078.

Get in

## Getting to West Kelowna

Most travellers will arrive in Westbank/West Kelowna by car. Highway 97 is the major highway through the community with Kelowna & Vernon to the north and Peachland, Summerland and Penticton to the south. Highway 97C (the Coquihalla Connector) also offers access to the community, which is the route most people from Vancouver travel.

Do

## Things to do

Wine tasting, as there are numerous local vineyard and wineries, including some of Canada's most well known wineries. See "Drink" section for local wineries.

1. Gellatly Bay Park Features swimming platforms and has some beach areas.
2. Mount Boucherie A focal point of the community and an extinct volcano.

Eat

## Where to eat

1. Kekuli Cafe Westbank A locally owned Aboriginal cuisine cafe coffee shop, serving everything on bannock or with bannock (fried bread).
2. Terrace Restaurant 1730 Mission Hill Road (Mission Hill Winery), terrace@missionhillwinery.com.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kelowna) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/West_Kelowna), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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