SASCU Recreation Centre

Winter is long enough in the Shuswap that a city's indoor recreation building ends up carrying a good deal of the community's social life. Buildings like this are usually municipal operations, and the name suggests a broad facility built around fitness and organized activity rather than one narrow purpose, with space typically booked in blocks by clubs, lesson programs and drop in users on a schedule that gets rewritten every season. SASCU Recreation Centre sits at 2550 10th Avenue NE, on the northeast side of town away from the waterfront blocks.

For families across the region this is a regular destination rather than an occasional one, drawing from Canoe and the rural roads south of it as much as from the streets around the bay. Registration for lesson programs generally opens well before a season starts, and the convenient time slots go first. Schedules, program details and registration are kept at salmonarmrecreation.ca, which is the sensible place to start before heading over. In deep winter, allow for the drive as well as the session itself if you are coming in from outside the city.