Pennask Creek Park is bisected by Highway 97C about 50 kilometres west of Kelowna. BC Parks says the park was established on April 18, 2001 to protect an internationally significant rainbow trout brood fishery.
Pennask Creek is considered one of the province's most important rainbow trout rearing streams.
Pennask Creek is not intended for general public use except for low-intensity viewing of fish spawning. Its central purpose is protecting biologically exceptional trout spawning habitat that should not be disturbed by recreation.
Each May and June, roughly 15,000 to 25,000 wild rainbow trout move up from Pennask Lake to spawn in Pennask Creek. Each year, two million eggs are removed from 10 percent of the spawning female trout and sent to the Summerland Trout Hatchery. Once raised, those fish are used to stock rainbow trout throughout the province. The park also protects mature lodgepole pine forest with some Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir, four known archaeological sites, and blue-listed Booth's willow.
Public use should remain minimal.
View spawning fish at low intensity if access is open, learn about wild trout stock protection, observe forest and creek habitat without disturbing it, and hunt during open seasons under BC regulations.
Access may be restricted at certain times to protect the fishery. Stay out of spawning habitat, avoid stream disturbance, and do not treat the park as a recreation area. Hunting must follow regulations, and visitors should check current advisories before travel.
