Labor Day Weekend at Osoyoos
Canada's Hottest Lake, and the Southern Edge of B.C. Wine Country
✍️ • 🕑 September 2-5, 2022 • Tags: holiday weekends • British Columbia • sacred places • wine • lakes • border crossings • mountains • & 6 More Tags • Places: Osoyoos, B.C. • Nk'Mip Desert Cultural Center, Cellars, Restaurant • Moon Curser Vineyards • sw̓iw̓s Provincial Park (Haynes Point) • Spotted Lake • Old Molson Historic Site • Leavenworth, WA • Leavenworth, WA
Picture this:
You’re Steve. You want to go out of town for Labor Day weekend, and you don’t want to go somewhere too crowded. Also, you’re going to be bringing your comrade Chelsea along, and so you ought to actually plan something and make reservations.
Originally, I hadn’t been thinking of leaving Washington State; what advantage was there to visiting Canada when they have the same bogus Labor Day holiday on the same exact day as the United States. But, when spitballing ideas, Lake Osoyoos came up.
Though its slender body crosses the U.S.-Canada border, most of the infrastructure, accomodations, cool stuff to visit, and indeed, most of the lake itself is on the Canadian side.
So, why not book a hotel six minutes across the border, and try a few wineries? Why not enjoy “the last weekend of summer” in a spot that is home to Canada’s warmest lake?