Neighbourhood guide · Kelowna

Living in Wilden

Wilden is a master-planned community on the hillside above north Glenmore: hundreds of hectares of it, built out in phases since the early 2000s and still going. If you want a newer home in a place that was designed all at once rather than accumulated over sixty years, this is the clearest example of it in Kelowna.

The character comes from the planning. Homes are held to design guidelines, a large share of the land is kept as parkland and trail, and there are ponds and preserved forest inside the community rather than at the edge of it. The corollary is that it is entirely residential; there's no commercial centre, and everything from milk to a haircut is a drive down the hill.