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Myra-Bellevue Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the Okanagan Highland east of Kelowna. [3] It was established to protect the full elevational range of the North Okanagan Basin and North Okanagan Highlands ecosections .
In 1999, a group of Kelowna residents formed a society called the Friends of Knox Mountain Park to advocate for and to promote stewardship of the park. [ 11 ] Each year the park becomes the site of the Knox Mountain Hillclimb car race, which has been run on a steep course in the park for over 60 years, [ 12 ] making it the longest annually ...
Kelowna is the seat of the Regional District of the Central Okanagan, the third-largest metropolitan area in British Columbia after Vancouver and Victoria and the largest in the British Columbia Interior. With scenic lake vistas and a dry, mild climate, Kelowna has become one of the fastest-growing cities in North America.
The South Okanagan shrub-steppe ecosystem is a habitat for 30% of the Red-listed and 46% of the Blue-listed vertebrates in British Columbia, with several listed as threatened or endangered. More than 24 invertebrates exist only in the Okanagan Desert, with an additional 80 species occurring nowhere else in Canada. [2] [4] [5]
Greater Kelowna (officially known as Kelowna Census Metropolitan Area) is the largest metropolitan area in British Columbia. It's the fastest growing metropolitan area within B.C and the fifth fastest growing in all of Canada.
Big White Ski Resort, simply known as Big White, is a ski resort located 56 km (35 mi) southeast of Kelowna in the Southern Interior of British Columbia.It is located on Big White Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley.
Bear Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. [3] It is situated on the west side of the Okanagan Lake and is northwest of the city of Kelowna . It was established on April 19, 1981, and was expanded to its current size of 178 hectares (1.78 km 2 ; 440 acres) on May 12, 1988.
Mount Boucherie is a mountain located in West Kelowna on the west shore of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada, opposite the city of Kelowna.It is the remnants of a former stratovolcano created nearly 60 million years ago.