Lavington Pool
The City of Vernon outdoor pool in Lavington: a shallow, lifeguarded public pool, free to swim, with lessons and parties in season.
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Gyms & Fitness
Greater Vernon Athletics Park
About Greater Vernon Athletics Park
A public track and field complex in Coldstream: a running track open dawn to dusk, throwing and jumping areas, and turf fields for the team sports.
Greater Vernon Athletics Park is a track and field ground on College Way, a short drive from Coldstream and shared by the whole of the north Okanagan. The running track is open from dawn to dusk, with the throwing and jumping areas a track needs in order to be worth anything, and there are both synthetic and natural turf fields for soccer and the other field sports that share the site through the year.
Open use of the track is free, and that single detail shapes how the place works. It fills at the shoulders of the day with runners and walkers who would otherwise be paying for a treadmill, while the rest of the calendar goes to the clubs, practices and school programs that book field time around them. It serves as a training home for local track clubs, and it is run through City of Vernon and Regional District of North Okanagan recreation services rather than as a private facility, which is why the casual side and the booked side sit comfortably beside one another.
For Coldstream residents it sits within easy reach, and it complements what the district already offers: quiet rural roads, the rail trail and the lakeshore for distance work, and a measured oval for anything that needs a real surface underfoot. Bookings, the seasonal track calendar and field closures run through the City of Vernon, and checking before you drive over is worth the minute, because access shifts with the weather and the sports season, and a wet spring can close natural turf while the synthetic side stays open. Meets and school events can also take the track out of open use for a day at a time, usually with notice posted in advance.
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