Armstrong Inn

Overnight rooms in a town of roughly five thousand people serve a particular kind of traveller. Armstrong sits on the fertile flats north of Vernon, close enough to Salmon Arm and the valley highway that people crossing the North Okanagan often need a bed for one night rather than a week. Armstrong Inn carries a 3400 Smith Drive address, in a town whose centre still keeps its early twentieth century storefronts.

Rooms in this trade vary far more from one property to the next than a traveller might expect, so a few questions are worth asking rather than assuming: how the rooms are configured, whether there is space to park a truck and trailer, and what the nightly rate covers. Further information is posted at armstronginn.net. As a base for exploring the North Okanagan the location works well. Vernon lies a short drive south, Salmon Arm sits away to the north, and the open farmland of Spallumcheen surrounds the town on every side, hayfields and pasture running out in every direction.