Kelowna Solar Days - Solar Bus Tour

Join Kelowna for a Solar Bus Tour and visit homeowners who've installed solar hot water, a winery, and an eco building. This tour is being hosted in conjunction with Kelowna's Solar Days events, happening May 28-29.

The bus tour is open to the public and you don't have to register in advance - just hop on at the start of the route and be dropped off back where you started from, at the end of the tour. The bus has a 45 people capacity so there's plenty of room.

Bus Tour #1

A. START LOCATION: The EECO Centre
(Environmental Education Centre For The Okanagan)
2363 Springfield Road
(Departs at 10:30am)

B. Acorn Homes' Sunset Ranch show home.
Ellison area, Kelowna, BC
(Arrive 10:40am, leave 11:00am)

C. Local resident Open House
from 11am-3pm
(Arrive 11:05am, leave 11:25am)

D. Spider Manufacturing Inc.
Tour of their eco-building incorporating the latest in environmental design.
2821 Fenwick Road
Kelowna, BC
(Arrive 11:35am, leave 12pm)

E. Back to EECO centre
(Arrive 12:05pm)

Bus Tour #2

A. START LOCATION: St Hubertus Winery
5225 Lakeshore Road
(Tour starts at 12:30pm, leaves at 12:50pm)

B. Local resident open house
(Arrive 1:15pm, leave at 1:35pm)

C. Local resident Open House
(Arrive at 1:55pm, leave at 2:15pm)

D. Back to St Hubertus
(Arrive 2:20pm)

The EECO centre is at the North end of town, and it has ample parking. The meeting place and respective tour stops will work best for people who live in the middle to north ends of town.

The St Hubertus pick-up/drop-off point will work great for people in the Southern part of town and St Hubertus winery has installed several sets of solar hot water panels around their property.

If you can't make the Kelowna Bus Tour you can still view the residential open houses in Kelowna over the Friday/Saturday by taking a self-guided tour of the homes on our Solar Tours Google Map. Homeowners are hosting open houses to show off their systems and they can be spotted by their Solar Home Tour Site lawn signs. Go on a solar road trip and bike or walk with friends and family to the installs in your neighbourhood. If you stop in at an open house on the tour you can also pick up some fun free Solar Days giveaways.