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Your Own Private Winter Wellness Retreat in BC
A winter wellness retreat in BC looks a little different at Tin Poppy. Some retreats are resorts. Some are spas. Tin Poppy is somewhere in between — a nature spa, really, tucked into 160 acres of wild North Okanagan land. Three year-round cabins, each with their own personality, private wood-fired saunas, 14 km of on-site trails, and a kind of quiet that’s genuinely hard to find. We’re 25 minutes from Salmon Arm and Enderby.
The journey starts the moment you turn onto our 3 km forested road. Hearts hang in the trees to guide you in. In midwinter, by the time you reach the top and the land opens up around you, it feels a little like Narnia. Snow covers everything, the valley spreads out below, and you realize you’ve arrived somewhere genuinely different.
Forest Walks and Snowshoeing Right Outside your Cabin
A peaceful winter walk through the snowy forest on Tin Poppy’s private trails.
The land changes as you move through it. One moment you’re in a cedar-hemlock pocket that feels sheltered and still, and then the trail opens onto firs spaced wide enough to let the winter light through. Our own on-site trails wind for about fourteen kilometres, all bird-inspired and easy to explore on foot or snowshoes. Guests walk these loops with their families, friends, or pets, letting the forest decide the pace. Winter seems to invite that — not the kind of dramatic adventure you plan weeks in advance, but the simple kind you fall into because the quiet nudges you toward it.
Larch Hills Nordic Skiing — 10 Minutes Away
The Larch Hills Nordic ski trails lit up for peaceful night skiing just minutes from Tin Poppy Retreat.
Just ten minutes from the cabins, the Larch Hills Nordic trail system pulls a lot of people outdoors. It’s a huge network and one of the most-loved cross-country skiing spots in British Columbia. You can leave Tin Poppy with a thermos of something warm, stop at John’s Ski Shack for rentals or a quick tune-up, and be gliding through the trees before lunch.
Cozy Cabins Built for Rest
Three year-round cabins, each with their own character.
Lavender Cabin is our timber frame — solar-powered, fully appointed, Wi-Fi, warm and spacious. The family cabin, the friend group cabin. Open arms, room for everyone.
Violet Cabin is a hand-crafted log cabin built by a local builder using logs from right here on the property. Grounded, cozy, unhurried — and it has what many guests call the most beautiful sauna on the property. A real bonus.
Wild Rose Cabin is also a hand-crafted log cabin, built locally and moved up onto the land to find her home here. She’s the romantic one — the couples’ cabin. When we host micro weddings, the couples getting married almost always chooses Wild Rose while their guests are spread across the other cabins.
All three are about a ten minute walk from each other. You can spend an entire weekend here and never cross paths with another guest.
Private Wood-Fired Saunas All Year
A peaceful moment in the sauna with firelight and snowy forest views.
Every cabin has its own private wood-fired sauna,. Having one entirely at your disposal for a whole weekend is a real luxury — and honestly a serious quality of life booster. Morning sauna, night sauna, après-ski sauna. You’ll find your rhythm. Robes are waiting. The wood is stacked. All you have to do is show up.
Hand-Blended Sauna Oils from Local Landscapes
Handcrafted Tin Poppy sauna oils inspired by the North Okanagan landscape.
We keep our own hand-blended sauna oils in our onsite woodland boutique, and each blend is inspired by a place close to our hearts in the North Okanagan and Shuswap. Enderby Cliffs — dry, bright, shaped by juniper and fir. Mara Meadows (known for its rare wild orchids) soft and wetland-scented, earthy in a way that feels rooted. And our Tin Poppy essence — lavender, pine, and the notes of the surrounding Larch Hills forest. A drop or two on the stones fills the sauna with the kind of aromatics that pair perfectly with winter: grounding, calm, and natural.
Who Comes here
Families who fill Lavender Cabin with kids and dogs. Friend groups who come to ski, snowshoe and sauna. Couples chasing a slow winter escape. Female solo travellers looking for a real reset somewhere that feels safe and restorative — and we love seeing more of you.
You don’t need a plan. Sometimes it’s just the forest, the snow, a sauna, and a warm cabin waiting at the end of the day.
That’s what winter at Tin Poppy feels like.
Tin Poppy Retreat is a boutique nature retreat in the Larch Hills, BC — 25 minutes from Salmon Arm and Enderby. Ready to book your own private winter escape? We’d love to have you.
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