Summerland Sweets

This place is a great stop for locals and tourists alike as it literally displays local flavours. There is the beautiful display of all the fruit jams and syrups and candies and many other local food gourmet products. The building is homey and inviting. There are great clean bathrooms. We like to sit outside and enjoy the very generous ice cream cones outside at the picnic table on the lawn next to the adjacent cherry orchard. The parking lot was paved in 2014 and is in a scenic area of orchards and vineyards. You can hear the steam train whistle from this location and it is a 2 minute walk to the historic KVR train trestle over Trout Creek Canyon.

Summerland Sweets is a rustic wood building that reminds me of Little House on the Prairie. The parking lot is gravel and there are several picnic benches outside to use while you enjoy your treats.
My father grew up in Summerland and still owns his family home and vineyard there. We toured the area this time and bumped into Summerland sweets. What a great find! We walked in and found shelves and shelves of jam, fruit candies, pottery, fruit wines, and an ice cream counter in the back. Our group of 10 all stopped for an ice cream and we were so glad we did! They offer two types of cones and a bunch of different flavors of ice cream. The standard scoop is HUGE. The ice cream prices are very cheap (see photo) and the scoops are generous. The girls working the counter are very friendly and were super nice with our 4 seniors (all over age 85) who were trying to decide what to get. The cherry ice cream was a huge hit!
There is also a wine tasting room where they serve fruit wines. The colors are beautiful and the wine tasting is free.
We ended up with some fruit flavored candy for my husband to bring back to work (in Houston). We don’t do a lot of touristy type things when we go to the Okanagan, so this was a wonderful place to stop, close to where we were staying.
I highly recommend Summerland Sweets for a quick stop for ice cream, wine tasting, and gift shopping. If you love maple syrup or fruit syrup they sell that too!