Browne Lake Park is a BC Parks site southeast of Kelowna, reached from Highway 33, Hydraulic Lake Road, and Browne Lake Forest Service Road. BC Parks says the park was established May 20, 2004 to protect Interior Douglas-fir-Montane Spruce transition forest.
It also provides non-intensive recreation beside Browne Lake.
Browne Lake is a small, self-reliant lake destination for camping, trout fishing, boating, swimming, hiking, and nature study. The recreation site on the southeast side of the lake has about six spots with outhouses, fire rings, and picnic tables. BC Parks says there is no charge and the site is user-maintained.
Lake use centres on trout fishing and associated boating, with a boat launch available. Browne Lake has rainbow trout, with a daily quota of two, only one over 50 centimetres, plus artificial flies on single barbless hooks only, a bait ban, and no fishing from December 1 to April 30.
The park also protects transition forest near Browne Lake Ecological Reserve. BC Parks notes limited information on rare species in the park, and a yellow-listed Lewisia pygmaea community in a rock crop in the adjacent ecological reserve.
Plan around user-maintained camping, hiking without available trail maps, cool-water swimming from a natural gravel beach, canoeing, kayaking, trout fishing, boating, horseback riding on designated trails, hunting in season, and nature study.
Camping, fires, and motorized vehicle use are prohibited on the north end of the lake within the park. Check posted vessel restrictions, fishing rules, hunting boundaries, leash requirements, and road conditions before travelling.
