Sun-Oka Beach Provincial Park, Provincial park with sandy beach on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada
Sun-Oka Beach Provincial Park is a lakeside park with sandy shoreline on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia. The property includes swimming areas, wooded sections with mature cottonwoods, and a creek that flows into the lake.
The park was established as Claybanks Beach Park in 1969. It is a provincial park in British Columbia covering 30 hectares, with 558 metres of shoreline and 100 metres of Okanagan Lake foreshore.
Families gather at the shoreline to swim and picnic throughout the summer season. The old cottonwood trees along the water shape how people experience and use this lakeside space.
The park lies on Okanagan Lake about 10 km north of Penticton, in Summerland, and is reached from Highway 97. Its 558 m of shoreline and 100 m of lake foreshore are the main draw; the sandy beach shelves gently into the water. Facilities include picnic tables, washrooms and parking. The protected cottonwood stand borders Trout Creek.
Beside Trout Creek, the park protects a small patch of old-growth cottonwood riparian forest, a rare habitat in British Columbia. Its cottonwoods and wetland thickets shelter insects and small mammals, and birders come to look for warbling vireos and Lewis's woodpecker.
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