Our month In Osoyoos, BC

This post is long overdue, but better late than never, right?

We spent the month of May in Osoyoos. The weather was unseasonably cool and rainy. We managed to make the best of it, nonetheless. One night the temperature dropped to 2C! Our full service site had cable, a total luxury for us as we don’t have cable at home. On days it didn’t work to be outside, we binge-watched HGTV, played cards, and read a couple books each. It wasn’t until Victoria Day long weekend that the weather warmed up.

Be warned – groceries in Osoyoos are very expensive. It takes approximately one hour each way to go Penticton, where the groceries are slightly cheaper. The cost of fuel (diesel) when we went was astronomical. We ended up spending more than we anticipated, as some unexpected expenses came up as well.

Because of costs, we spent most of our time at our campsite. We did a few “touristy” things: Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos Desert Centre, Anarchist Mountain Lookout, Haynes Point Provincial Park, mini golf at Rattlesnake Canyon, a few coffee dates. Lots and lots of walking, along the canals, all over the RV Park, multiple times.

If wineries are your thing, there’s plenty of them between Osoyoos and Oliver, BC. Oliver is considered the “wine capital of Canada” with over 40 wineries,, according to https://winebc.com/discover-bc-wine-country/okanagan-valley/oliver/ I wonder how they all manage to stay in business. Winery tours are available and the van will pick you up right from your RV site. We’ve done winery tours in the past and decided to pass.

The RV Park is located in an agricultural area with many wineries and fruit orchards. Be warned the wind turbines are set to go off if the air reaches a certain low temperature, to keep frost from forming on the fruit. The turbine pulls the warm air down, blows it down and out, to push the cold air away from the crops. https://www.ontario.ca/page/wind-machines-minimizing-cold-injury-horticultural-crops. This happened at 6:00 a.m. one morning, and sounded like a helicopter was flying over head.

The RV park https://campingosoyoos.com is on Indigenous land. It’s a decent RV park, pretty large, the sites can accommodate big rigs, and there are pretty sites along the lake. The sites along the lake can get a bit congested when full.

With just a little work in the maintenance and landscaping department, this RV park could go from good to great. For example, there’s a construction area that is a complete disaster that park residents can view. In this construction area is years worth of bags of empty bottles and cans, and other assorted junk.

Maintenance and landscaping are constant in an RV park of this size I’m sure, but surely it can’t be that hard to stay on top of things like this.

We enjoyed beautiful sunsets in Osoyoos.

All in all, a decent trip and it was very nice to be on vacation. Being on vacation is like being in a “bubble” and anything outside that bubble is temporarily “out of sight, out of mind.” But all good things must come to an end, and the vacation bubble burst shortly after we returned home.