There’s a number of bucket list rail trails across Canada, and one of the most spectacular is the Kettle Valley Rail Trail in the beautiful BC Okanagan Valley. Follow Robin Esrock as he cycles the trestles of the Myra Canyon, enjoys the stunning lake views, and takes a well-deserved break in the vineyards of the Naramata Bench.
– Departs every Sunday and Monday from September to mid October
– Supported self-guided cycling trip
– For more details, visit: https://greatcanadiantrails/KVR
My name is Robin azrock there’s a number of bucketed rail Trails across the country and one of the most spectacular has to be The Kettle Valley Heritage Trail here in the beautiful BC Okanagan Valley you don’t have to be nearly as fit as you think to enjoy riding the kvr
With Great Canadian Trails first of all it’s mostly flat and you can do it on an E Bike this is going to be comfortable it’s going to be amazing let’s go for a ride the first part of the KBR has been a very gentle decline through very Lush Forest super easy
Riding welcome to Trestle number 17 there were 18 trestles and these were all part of The Kettle Valley Railway which opened in 1915 and it’s quite amazing to think that passengers on a train would come along here I mean just look at this you think you think you got trestles we got
Trestles it’s day two on The Kettle Valley Heritage Trail shoot Lake was such a lovely spot to plop for the night beautiful Lake it’s been so great today to just go downhill the entire time it’s been almost 40 km at this very gentle downhill gradient hardly had a pedal the
Weather’s been perfect and the views have been great oh wow look at this this is Lake Okanagan over there is Penticton down there a whole bunch of Vineyards and the views are Extraordinary was all downhill today the views were amazing and at the end of the rainbow are over 50 Wineries and breweries hydration is really important third and final day of the kvr we rode down from Summerland and we’re now riding along Lake Skaha the topography has changed every
Day I mean we started in the mountains with the trestles and then we went through Lush Pine Forest and now we’re Lakefront through Wild Sage Brush uh it’s absolutely Beautiful we’ve spent three Incredible Days cycling Along The Kettle Valley Heritage Trail it never gets strenuous 3% gradient anybody can do this especially on an ebike the scenery has been incredible the Maya Canyon trestles the lake the wild Sagebrush The Vineyards The Orchards uh this is one
For the bucket list it smells so Good