Okanagan Mountain

Okanagan Mountain stands on the east side of Okanagan Lake between Kelowna and Penticton in British Columbia’s Southern Interior. Part of the Okanagan Highland, it is a prominent plateau-like upland and the central feature of Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park, giving it importance both as a landform and as protected terrain south of Kelowna. Its north slopes also became a residential area of Kelowna, tying the mountain closely to the city. It is especially remembered for the 2003 Okanagan Mountain forest fire, which destroyed much of that north-slope neighbourhood and linked the mountain to one of the region’s most significant wildfires.

British Columbia · Canada