Oliver Bucket List
1. Festivals, Festivals, & More Festivals…… Art Walk, PIG OUT, Half Corked Marathon, Roots & Fruits, Festival of the Grape.
2. Spectacular Blossom Time! Take a strikingly beautiful drive within the Oliver Area. The Apricot, Cherry & Peach trees usually bloom in the 2nd & 3rd week of April.
3. Pick fresh local fruit, veggies and herbs at a U-Pick family-run
WHISKY, GIN & SPIRITS FROM THE HEART OF WINE COUNTRY
Tastings & Tours
8486 Gallagher Lake Frontage Road Oliver, BC 778.439.3580 www.TheDubhGlasDistillery.com
orchard or just stop at one of Oliver’s numerous roadside fruit stands where you may also be able to purchase local honey, hot sauces, jams, and syrups.
4. Vaseux Lake Bird Sanctuary – North end of
The Beer of Wine Country!
Vaseux Lake offers some of the best bird and bat watching in Canada. You can walk through the marsh on boardwalks. Grab your binoculars! California Bighorn Sheep & deer nearby on the winter range.
5. Gather the family under the shade in the grass at Tuc-El-Nuit Lake with a great play and
BEER SHOP & SOCIAL OPEN DAILY
www.firehallbrewery.com FOR UPCOMING EVENTS 6077 MAIN ST. OLIVER (LOWER LEVEL)
picnic area. No motorized watercrafts permitted here!
6. Explore Canada’s Desert. Take a hike to phenomenal valley
& fruit market
views at McIntyre Bluff (Ny-lin-tn) or in the backcountry at Stamp Mill Golden Mile, Sandy Trail, and Oliver Mountain….
7. Take a hike or ride a bike along Oliver’s 18.8 km Hike & Bike Trail (KVR Trail), 10 km on pavement with the balance on a
250.689.0240 • 250.495.4325 www.orchardhillcidery.com
compacted dirt and gravel pathway.
8. Marvel in the spectacle of the Okanagan River Fall Salmon Run. See this wonder of nature from Oliver’s Hike & Bike Trail.
9. Pause on a winter hike and listen to the snow fall. Test the fresh powder at Baldy Mountain with downhill skiing, snowboarding,
3480 Fruitvale Way , Oliver B.C
250.495.7035
14000-14014 97TH ST., OSOYOOS
Open: July to Aug. 8am - 7pm June, Sept. & Oct. 9am - 6pm
Our family friendly tasting room is open throughout the summer.
snowshoeing, and tobogganing for the whole family.
10. Did we mention wine?
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Linda Anderson
#LiveFreeLoveCider 7952 Hwy 97, Oliver, B.C. V0H 1T5 | 778.439.2373 cider@howlingmoon.ca | www.howlingmoon.ca
Howling Moon Craft Cider @howlingcider @Howling Moon Cider
