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Sparkling Hill Resort
About Sparkling Hill Resort
South of Vernon the ground rises into the Commonage, rolling rural country that runs toward the hills and the golf land, filling slowly with acreages and long views back over the valley. Sparkling Hill Resort occupies 888 Sparkling Place out in that landscape, well clear of the city grid, with details at https://www.sparklinghill.com/.
A resort is a different proposition from a room in town, because the point is that most of what you need sits on the property. That normally means accommodation combined with dining, wellness and spa facilities, quiet space, and meeting or event rooms for groups, all sold as packages as often as by the night. What is included and what costs extra is the thing to pin down in advance, along with whether facilities are open to day visitors or reserved for overnight guests, whether treatments and dining need booking separately, and what the policy is on children. Groups planning a retreat or a wedding should ask early, since blocks of rooms and event space tend to be spoken for well ahead.
Getting there is part of the calculation. The Commonage road network is rural, and in a North Okanagan winter that means real snow and ice at elevation on a night when the city streets below are merely wet, so allow time and drive accordingly. The compensation is the view, which is the reason to be up here at all: the valley falling away, the lakes below, and quiet that the flat part of town cannot offer. Summer books out furthest ahead, and shoulder seasons in spring and autumn are the calmer stretches.
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In the Commonage neighbourhood of Vernon.
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