WATCH: Glen Canyon Park keeps growing

WEST KELOWNA — Glen Canyon Regional Park in West Kelowna is growing in size and quality thanks to two key partnerships and a big purchase by the Regional District.

“We’ve had a vision for many many years here on the Westside about creating a corridor along Powers Creek,” says Rob Hobson, chair of the Central Okanagan Regional District.

Now that dream is becoming a reality with the Regional District announcing Wednesday that it purchased four acres of land. It’s a parcel that will link the top and bottom portions of the trail running along the west side of Powers Creek in West Kelowna.

“West Kelowna is very pleased with the final acquisition of the property in the upper Glen Canyon area. It completes the park as a continuous entity,” says Mayor of the District of West Kelowna, Doug Findlater.

“Now, except for the highway, we’ve actually got continuous access to Powers Creek for the residents of West Kelowna and a number of access points on both sides of the creek,” adds Hobson.

The $132,000 piece of land isnt the only improvement to the area. Work is underway upgrading upstream trails, improvements are being made to the trailhead and even staircases are on the list of additions.

Those upgrades will cost $167,000, being funded through the B.C. Community Recreation Initiative Trails to Health Program.

“I think for the community it means accessibility to a beautiful natural area right in the middle of West Kelowna and of course it takes you almost right down the lake where we have other beautiful areas of park land as well,” says Hobson.

Parts of Glen Canyon Park and the trail will be closed until the upgrades are done at the end of October. For details on the closures, visit the Regional District website.