Penticton Peach Festival is five days of free family fun including music, entertainment, parades, sandcastle competition, RPR Heating PeachDuro bike race, Home Hardware Kids Zone, food and goods vendors, and so much more. Peach Fest is an annual South Okanagan Valley tradition, which began in 1947, to celebrate the peach harvest in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada. The festival always begins the Wednesday after the B.C. long weekend and closes after the last act on the following Sunday.