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Richter Pass Motel
About Richter Pass Motel
Arriving in Osoyoos by road means arriving at the bottom of the valley, where the Okanagan runs out of orchard country and into sagebrush and the border sits just beyond the town. Richter Pass Motel takes an address at 7506 Main Street, on the run of downtown where the highway, the shops and the lake access all sit together. That position is rather the point of a motel here, because you can leave the car and cover most of the town core on foot.
Motels in a lake town are booked for very different reasons across the year. Summer brings families who want a base within walking distance of a beach. Autumn brings wine and harvest traffic up onto the benches around town. Winter brings a slower, longer kind of guest, people escaping colder parts of the province for the mildest patch of the interior. Terms, minimum stays and what is included tend to shift with those seasons, so the questions worth asking on the phone change depending on when you are coming.
Call 250-495-7229 to work through the practical side: room configuration, parking for a trailer or a boat, whether a kitchenette suits how you plan to eat, and how arrival works if you are crossing the border late in the evening. There is a site at richterpass.com. One thing worth factoring in is the heat. This is the driest and hottest corner of the Canadian interior, and midsummer afternoons here are serious, so cooling and shade are reasonable things to confirm before committing to a week.
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