Vernon and North Okanagan Real Estate Professionals

Local Links for your convenience

Our goal is to be able to provide you assistance during the home buying or selling process, and during that much greater time when you are simply a homeowner and community resident! Here are some important and helpful links related to buying, selling, or simply owning a home.

We are excited to be the exclusive Realtors for Wesbild at Turtle Mountain Vernon! 

http://www.turtlemountainvernon.com/

• For business professionals there is the Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce: http://www.vernonchamber.ca/ 
• The local School District is School District 22: http://www.sd22.bc.ca/ 
• Okanagan College is off Hwy 97 on the South end of town: http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/home.html 
• For transportation options there is the Vernon Regional Transit System: http://www.okanagan.bc.ca/home.html 
• Vernon is serviced by Interoir Health British Columbia here is a link to the website for Vernon Jubilee Hospital: http://www.interiorhealth.ca/health-services.aspx?id=278 
• The City of Vernon has an excellent mapping website, for road maps and city addresses, or to find the dimensions or legal text of a lot within the city: http://www.vernon.ca/map/index.html 
• To find assessment information for this area here is a link to BC Assessment:  http://www.bcassessment.ca/about/contact/Pages/Okanagan.aspx 
• For Land Titles BC, visit:  http://www.ltsa.ca/ 
• Service BC for links to provincial services:  http://www.servicebc.gov.bc.ca/

Here are links to the North Okanagan Regional District as well as our neighbouring community websites:

• Regional District of the North Okanagan:  http://www.rdno.ca/index.php 
• The City of Vernon: http://www.vernon.ca/ 
• The District of Coldstream, which includes Lavington: http://www.districtofcoldstream.ca/index.php 
• The Village of Lumby: http://www.lumby.ca/ 
• The Township of Spallumcheen: http://www.spallumcheentwp.bc.ca/siteengine/activepage.asp?PageID=1 
• The City of Armstrong: http://cityofarmstrong.bc.ca/siteengine/activepage.asp 
• The City of Enderby: http://www.enderby.com/

To learn more about the Okanagan Valley, here is a link to Beautiful British Columbia's website:

http://www.hellobc.com/en-CA/RegionsCities/ThompsonOkanagan.htm?S=N

For Recreation our area has so much to offer; from skiing, curling and hockey in the winter , to golfing, boating and swimming in the summer.

Local Winter activities:  

• Silver Star Village, 25 min Northeast of Vernon: http://www.skisilverstar.com/ 
• For Cross Country Skiing Near Silver Star: http://www.sovereignlake.com/ 
• Vernon Curling Club: http://vernoncurlingclub.com/ 
• Wesbild Arena: http://www.wesbildcentre.ca/

Local Golf Courses:

• Predator Ridge  15 min south of Vernon: http://www.predatorridge.com/ 
• The Rise, 10 min west of Vernon, above Bella Vista: http://www.therise.ca/ 
• Spallumcheen Golf and Country Club, 15 min Northwest of Vernon: http://spallumcheengolf.com/ 
• Vernon Golf and Country club, near downtown Vernon, on the way to Kalamalka Lake: http://vernongolf.com/ 
• Hillview Golf Club, near downtown Vernon, south of Hwy 6 heading to Lumby: http://www.hillviewgolf.ca/ 
• Royal York Golf Club, North of Vernon near Armstrong: http://royalyorkrvpark.com/

Local Provincial Parks:

• Kalamalka Provincial Park is 10 min South of Vernon on Kidston Rd: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/kalamalka_lk/ 
• Kelkuli Bay Provincial Park is 15 min South of Vernon off Hwy 97: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/kekuli_bay/ 
• Ellison Provincial Park is 15 min South of Vernon on Eastside Rd: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/ellison/ 
• Fintry Park is 25 min South of Vernon on Westside Rd: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/fintry/

There are many more Provincial Parks within a short drive, including Mable Lake, Echo Lake, Monashee, to name a few. Visit the BC Parks website to learn more: http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/

Greater Vernon Parks and Recreation has website where you can learn more about parks in and around Vernon including Paddlewheel Park, Kin Park, Kalamalka Beach, Polson Park. You can also find schedules of activities within the Recreation Complex, which houses the indoor swimming pool, dogwood gym, Pleasant Valley arena, and Halina Senior's centre.http://www.greatervernonrecreation.ca/

For Art and Culture, visit some of our galleries or Art centres:

• Vernon and District Performing Arts Centre:  http://www.vdpac.ca/ 
• Powerhouse Theatre: http://powerhousetheatre.net/ 
• Vernon Public Art Gallery: http://vernonpublicartgallery.com/ 
• Gallery Vertigo: http://galleryvertigo.com/

The North Okanagan area has many one of a kind attractions to experience:

• Davison Orchards in the Bella Vista: http://www.davisonorchards.ca/ 
• Planet Bee, near Davison Orchards: http://www.planetbee.com/ 
• Alan Brooks Nature Centre on the Commonage: http://www.abnc.ca/ 
• Okanagan Science Centre: http://www.okscience.ca/ 
• Overlooking Swan Lake is Atlantis Waterslides: http://www.atlantiswaterslides.ca/ 
• Ten minutes north of Vernon there is the heritage site O'keefe Ranch: http://www.okeeferanch.ca/