THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE.

Fuel Free…Almost is our unique way to promote responsible travel. It encourages you to take time to focus on your personal health and wellness by exploring Penticton’s active lifestyle, fresh air, and wide open spaces. Engage your senses, relax your mind and rediscover more of yourself.

In Penticton, the best things in life are possible because they’re free from the constraints and dependence on fuel. Fuel Free…Almost offers Penticton visitors and locals the freedom from fumes, pollution, gridlock, parking and fuel costs. By removing all of these stressors, we have the opportunity to connect more with our natural environment. The freedom from fuel brings freedom to explore and discover and to indulge, responsibly.

We’re inspiring people to park the car and wander the streets, to pop into a boutique shop, a tucked away café or a lakefront patio. We encourage you to explore, and discover hidden gems and local favourites. Be kind both to yourself and the environment, when you explore by foot, pedal or paddle.

BY FOOT

The natural landscape surrounding the City of Penticton has fostered a cozy community feel with all the amenities of a larger metropolis. With less than 7 km between the north and south end of the city, you’ll find yourself just steps away from world-class culinary and cultural experiences as well as endless outdoor activities. Walk around the downtown core of Penticton, take a stroll along the boardwalk of Skaha Lake or Okanagan Lake, or hike up Munson Mountain above the iconic PENTICTON sign.

BY PEDAL

Penticton is surrounded by a wide range of world-class road cycling routes, casual trails and challenging singletrack mountain bike trails. The 45 km road loop around Skaha Lake and the historic Kettle Valley Rail Trail both offer incredible vistas and panoramic lake views. For the more adventurous riders, Three Blind Mice and Campbell Mountain offer some of the best singletrack mountain biking terrain in BC. If you don’t have your own bike or are unable to bring it on your travels, then stop into one of our local bike shops or bike rental locations to pick up a bicycle or e-bike and start exploring.

Explore Penticton’s Fuel Free...Almost experiences at www.visitpenticton.com/fuel-free

BY PADDLE

Penticton is one of only two cities in the world situated between two lakes. The fresh waters of Okanagan and Skaha Lakes offer a variety of fuel free activities both in and on the water whether it’s exploring the coves by kayak, canoe or paddle board, catching air on a kiteboard, cooling off with a swim or relaxing on a floatie and floating down the channel.

…ALMOST

Getting here first, as well as some experiences around Penticton, will require fuel or the use of a vehicle, and we have a number of local operators looking to do the driving for you! Wine tour operators, outdoor adventure shuttle services and local transportation operations can help get you where you need to go, and help reduce your carbon footprint.

FUEL FREE = FREEDOM

Our community supports and relies on each other to create what has become one of Canada’s best culinary destinations.

Daily Special is a celebration of that community – it is a collaboration of our incredible restaurants, wineries and craft breweries, cideries and distilleries all working together alongside farms and farmers to produce amazing, fresh, local flavours and ever-changing menus that shift with the seasons.

Our Daily Special culinary trail itineraries offer visitors an authentic look at what it’s like to eat, drink and enjoy Penticton. It allows you to get recommendations and receive the tips you would typically only get if you had a friend on the inside. Shop the seasonal Penticton Farmers’ Market and you’ll have a chance to meet the local farmers and artisans providing their goods, and join the chefs and restaurateurs scooping up the best local ingredients.

The Daily Special is an affirmation to Penticton’s culinary industry, and at the same time it’s an appreciation of all of the things that make the Penticton area so special. Penticton offers a vibrant playground of activities with culinary options to match. Use the Daily Special culinary trail itineraries to plan out your travel, exploring in a fuel free way, with food and drink at the centre of it!