Favourite outdoor spots getting upgrades
Oyama Road and Trask Road.
— Traders Cove Regional Park has a new $71,000 playground for children 18 months to 12 years: a dual-bay swing set (four swings), two slides, climbing apparatus and a play fort structure with a safetyapproved wood fibre surface below. This fall, the park picnic shelter is scheduled to be replaced.
— A new playground has opened at BX Community Park, 5734 Silver Star Rd. in Vernon, including a play structure that looks like a fire truck, multiple slides, monkey bars and an interactive spinning wheel with a maze inside. New safety surfacing was installed at the N’Kwala and Gibbs Road playgrounds. from the pandemic.
— Silver Star Bike Park will have bonus weekends on Sept. 12-13 and 19-20. Tickets will be limited so book online in advance.
— Silver Star Mountain Resort’s 2020-21 winter season passes are on sale until Sept. 27 at last year’s early bird prices and are fully refundable until Dec. 1. The season pass is good for downhill skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, tubing, fat biking, skating, snowshoeing, and two ski days at Sun Peaks, Whitewater and Apex.
— Cross Country BC is offering a chance to win a Three-Day XC Supercamps early-season prize package (valued at $590) to any club that can reach 20 per cent of its annual membership numbers by Oct. 10.
J.P. Squire, the Hiking, Biking, Kayaking and Horseback Riding Sheriff, is a retired reporter. Email: jp.squire@telus.net