Naramata Centre
Rooms, campsites, programs, and gatherings, on a shore people return to year after year.
A retreat and hospitality property on Okanagan Lake. Book a room, a cottage, or a campsite on your own terms. Bring a group of ten or two hundred. Join a program, some of which include your accommodations and meals, and some of which leave your afternoons entirely free. Or join us online from wherever you are.
Four ways to be here.
Some people book a cottage and never look at a schedule. Some bring a hundred colleagues. Some come for a program and stay a week longer. All of it happens here, and none of it requires the others.
Come on your own terms
A room, a cottage, a suite, or a campsite, with nothing on the calendar and nobody expecting you anywhere. Orchard Court, East Court, and Maple Court carry on through the winter. Camping is seasonal.
See the accommodationsBring your whole group
Reunions, staff retreats, faith communities, family weeks, board meetings, and choirs. Kitchens, meeting rooms, a chapel, and enough beds that nobody has to drive back at night.
Group bookingsJoin a program
Retreats, silence, learning, music, and Summer Sessions. Some include your room and meals in one price. Others are a morning a day, with accommodations booked separately, and the rest of the time yours. The calendar keeps growing.
See what is runningJoin us online
Not everyone can make the drive, and not every year allows it. Some of our programs run over Zoom, in evenings you can join from your own kitchen table, wherever that happens to be.
Online programsMornings come slow. Evenings come slower.
The hours don't quite work the way they do back home. The lake is up before you are. Coffee takes longer. A walk to the chapel turns into a long conversation. Here is what an ordinary day tends to feel like.
First light on the lake
The path down to the beach is still cool. The water is glass. A few quiet swimmers. A heron. Maybe a friend with a thermos.
Coffee on the porch
Back to the cottage. Sun coming through the trees. The kettle. The first slow conversation of the day, the kind that turns into the second.
A walk through the gardens
Through the sacred garden archway, past the orchard, around the labyrinth. A pause near the chapel. Not going anywhere in particular, and that turns out to be the point.
A long lunch
Sandwiches at the cottage, or a shared meal at the dining hall during a Summer Sessions week. Either way, food tastes better here, and you stay at the table longer than you meant to.
Lake afternoon
Warm rocks, a swim, a paddleboard, a book that you might or might not finish. Children doing the things children do at lakes. Time stretching out.
A quieter chapel
Evening light through the chapel windows. Music sometimes. Stillness always. Even people who weren't planning to come in find themselves sitting for a minute longer than they expected.
The last gold light
Back to the porch, or back to the dock. Sun going down behind the hills. Tomorrow already feels easier, and you haven't even started thinking about it yet.
Pick the room and we'll show you in.
Indoor accommodations make up most of what people book here. Each option has a different feel, from full retro cottages to private rooms close to the beach. Orchard Court, East Court, and Maple Court stay open through the winter. Tap a name to see inside.
The part people keep longing for.
Yes, people come for a cottage, a suite, or a campsite. But what draws them back year after year is harder to name at first.
The Chapel
The chapel gives the whole property a sense of stillness. It is a place for worship, music, weddings, memorials, prayer, and reflection.
It is also a place for the small moments of quiet that seem to find people when they were not looking for them. People who were not planning to go inside, do. People who only meant to stay for a minute, stay longer.
The Labyrinth
The labyrinth is its own kind of welcome. A slow walk, a steadying breath, a prayer, a letting go. Not every part of a visit needs to be scheduled or explained.
Some things are meant to be walked through. People come back from the labyrinth a little softer than they left.
The Gardens
The gardens, porches, orchard edges, and footpaths soften the whole visit. Morning coffee tastes better here. Time stretches out. Conversations continue.
Even the walk from one building to another becomes part of the experience.
The Beach
The beach is where the day opens up. Bare feet on warm stones. Children in the water. Sun on the lake. The last gold light of evening.
People mean to visit for a few minutes. They keep finding themselves coming back.
Three campgrounds, one lake.
Tent or trailer, creekside or willow grove. All three sit within a short walk of the beach, the kitchen commons, and the rest of the property. The only campground in the Village of Naramata.
Shaded creekside tents
Quiet tent camping beside Naramata Creek. Pet-free, with shared kitchen commons and easy walks to the lake.
Roomy RV and trailer sites
Spacious sites with easy access for RVs, trailers up to 33 ft, and tent camping. Pet-friendly and well-treed.
Willow grove near the beach
Tucked among willows, a short walk from Manitou Park and the beach. Pet-friendly with 30 amp service.
Campsites run from $45 a night and book on the same pages as the rooms. All three campgrounds are seasonal and close for the winter, when Orchard Court, East Court, and Maple Court carry on indoors. Call the front desk at 250 496 5751 if you are booking near either end of the season.
What is open right now.
Accommodations first, then the programs. Watch the tag on each program: some include your room and your meals in the price, and some ask you to book a room separately.
A few nights by the lake
Rooms, cottages, and campsites with no program attached. Rooms from $145 a night, campsites from $45. The quickest way to get here before the season turns.
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Quiet weeks by the lake
The grounds empty out, the light turns, and the paths are yours. Two night minimum, so a long weekend is enough. This is where we have the most room all year.
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Going Deeper Together
A pilot in intentional Christian community with David Sherwin and Marilou Reeve. Mornings from nine until noon, with the rest of the day yours. Adults 18 and over.
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Hearts and Hands
Six days of putting the property to bed for winter. Gardens tended, sites restored, good company throughout. Your room and your meals are on us, and you can come for the week or a single day.
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Iona Community
Rooted in hope and lived in community, with Ruth Harvey. Scripture, conflict transformation, and models of communal living, in one of the gentlest weeks of the year. From $565 double occupancy. Registration closes October 5.
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Be Still Autumn Silent Retreat
Offered through the partnership of Pacific Jubilee and Naramata Centre.
Nine days of prayer filled silence as the season closes in. Private accommodation in Orchard Court, daily spiritual direction, the chapel close by, and the lake doing what it does in late October.
Learn moreNot able to travel? Poetry for People Who Are Afraid of Poetry runs online over two evenings, November 21 and 22.
Bringing a group? This is the place.
Reunions, retreats, staff gatherings, faith communities, and family weeks have all found their way here. We have the space, the kitchens, the meeting rooms, and the lake.
Come back when the light turns softer.
After the height of summer, the grounds grow quieter. The lake is still here, the paths are still waiting, and the whole place takes on the kind of beauty people remember long after they have gone home. Two night minimum, so a long weekend is enough.
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