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Astoria Warrenton Crab Seafood & Wine Festival

editor — Fri, 31 May 2019 21:06:00 +0000

Astoria Clatsop County Fair & Expo Center, 92937 Walluski Loop Last full weekend in April www.astoriacrabfest.com Anywhere else, you’d raise eyebrows by wearing a bright-red crab hat—a beanie with big black googly eyes and dangling red legs and pincers. But at one of Oregon’s most beloved and popular coastal events, such attire is ubiquitous. The annual Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine festival launched as a humble little celebration of Dungeness crab—one of the state’s signature seafood products—in 1982. Nearly four decades later, this multi-award-winning extravaganza has outgrown several venues in Astoria and Warrenton, and now attracts about 15,000 people

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Bear Creek Salmon Festival – Top USA Festivals

editor — Sun, 26 May 2019 21:21:00 +0000

Ashland North Mountain Park, 620 N Mountain Avenue First Saturday in October www.bearcreeksalmonfestival.net Salmon are integral to Pacific Northwest culture and have been for millennia; returning to their natal streams to spawn, the five species of Pacific salmon have historically been the engines that drove entire ecosystems, their staggering abundance barely imaginable by a modern society that bears witness to the many fragmentary populations of wild salmon that persist today in the watersheds of California, Oregon, and Washington. Southern Oregon’s Rogue River watershed hosts annual runs of spring and fall chinook salmon and coho salmon (as well as steelhead). The

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Miner’S Jubilee Baker City – USA Festivals

editor — Thu, 23 May 2019 21:30:00 +0000

Geiser Pollman Park, 1723 Madison Street Third weekend in July www.minersjubilee.com Baker City in far Eastern Oregon enjoys a rich Old West history: the discovery of gold in the region in 1861 spurred a gold rush and the birth of Baker City, which began with a saloon, hotel, and blacksmith shop. In 1865, the town was platted; it became the county seat in 1868, and was officially incorporated as a city in 1874. All the while mining boomed in the nearby mountains, drawing every imaginable kind of character to the bustling town. In 1884, the Oregon Shortline Railroad reached Baker

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Pouring At The Coast Seaside – Top USA Festivals

editor — Sat, 18 May 2019 21:45:00 +0000

Seaside Civic and Convention Center, 415 1st Avenue Mid-March www.pouringatthecoast.com With its title an effective play on words considering the oft-wet weather on the Oregon coast in March, Pouring at the Coast is billed as the “perfect pairing of brew and beach.” That claim might be arguable, considering how well a regional microbrew pairs with the beach on a sunny summer day, but this craft beer celebration has rapidly gained momentum as one of the north coast’s most fun and relaxed brew festivals. Pouring at the Coast still remains a bit under the radar, like a secret you’ve discovered that

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Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival Cannon Beach

editor — Thu, 16 May 2019 21:51:00 +0000

Various venues Mid-March www.savorcannonbeach.com One of the most popular destination communities on the entire Pacific Northwest coast, beautiful Cannon Beach stretches along a gorgeous strip of clean, white sand, with iconic Haystack Rock sitting just offshore, creating a postcard pretty panorama. The town boasts excellent restaurants, lively bars, wine shops, breweries, art galleries, clothiers, and myriad shops of all descriptions. Cannon Beach also hosts one of the best wine and culinary festivals in Oregon. Savor Cannon Beach Wine & Culinary Festival is a four-day celebration of Northwest-centric wine, cuisine, and arts. A series of festival events focus on specific themes

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Birding & Blues Festival – Top USA Festivals

editor — Mon, 13 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000

Pacific City Kiawanda Community Center, 34600 Cape Kiwanda Drive (event headquarters) Late April www.birdingandblues.org In a unique fusion, this annual award-wining event celebrates a favorite coastal activity—birdwatching—with an evening accompaniment of blues music over the course of three days during the height of spring migration for myriad species of birds that annually stop along Oregon’s estuaries, beaches, and nearshore waters. The Birding & Blues Festival features expert speakers presenting on a variety of bird-related topics as well as field trips to local birding hotspots (including kayak tours and dory boat outings). Seminars and presentations are held at the Kiawanda Community

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OREGON COAST FESTIVALS

editor — Sun, 05 May 2019 22:24:00 +0000

Oregon’s incredibly scenic coastline stretches for nearly 400 miles, a mosaic of everything from rugged, wave-battered headlands to vast stretches of clean sand. US Highway 101 traces the Pacific shores from Astoria in the north to Brookings and the California border in the south, never venturing too far from the ocean and the myriad beaches, and spanning the numerous bays, rivers, and streams on historic bridges. The Oregon coast has no large cities. Instead, Highway 101 and a few secondary roads thread through a string of wonderfully diverse small towns and tiny villages, some of them brimming with tourists much

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Southern Oregon Smoked Salmon Fest Medford – Top USA Festivals

editor — Sat, 04 May 2019 22:27:00 +0000

Pear Blossom Park, 312 E 4th Street Late September to early October www.southernoregonsmokedsalmonfest.com Smoked salmon, a Northwest delicacy for centuries, is a diverse and complex culinary genre, far more so than most people realize. Recipes are legion, whether the fish in hand is ocean-caught coho or river-taken chinook, rich, dense sockeye from the famed runs British Columbia or pale meaty chum from the Yukon. In Southern Oregon, the famed Rogue River historically hosted massive runs of both chinook (king) and coho (silver) salmon, so Medford is the perfect place for the unique, family-friendly Southern Oregon Smoked Salmon Fest, which celebrates

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Newport Seafood & Wine Festival – Top USA Festivals

editor — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 23:18:00 +0000

Newport South Beach Marina, 2320 OSU Drive Late February www.seafoodandwine.com Soon after its beginnings in 1977, the Newport Seafood & Wine Festival grew rapidly and within a few years ranked among the state’s most heavily attended events of the kind. Held on the south side of Yaquina Bay in Newport, this popular event draws shoulder-to-shoulder crowds of enthusiastic patrons eager to try dozens upon dozens of state and regional wines and numerous culinary delights. The festival occupies a massive tent at the Port of Newport in South Beach, adjacent to the Rogue Brewery facility, and the tent keeps the oft-tumultuous

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Wheeler County Wheeler-Coukty-Bluecrass-Festlval

editor — Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:30:00 +0000

Wheeler County Courthouse Lawn, 701 Adams Street Late June to early July www.wheelercountybluegrass.org Wheeler County, they say, is the only county in Oregon with more horses than people, and in this case, “they” are no doubt correct. This expansive mountainous county sprawls across some 1,700 square miles but is home to only about 1,400 residents. Fossil, with a population of about 500, is the county seat and was named by Thomas B. Hoover, the town’s first postmaster. Fossil sits far from the state’s major thoroughfares—you have to want to go there. And when you arrive, slow down; nothing really happens

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Culinary Festival – Top USA Festivals

editor — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:33:00 +0000

Then judged by a panel of experts before the winner is decided. Additional contests ensue throughout the weekend, with the ever-popular Friday evening mixology competition and the Saturday Junior Chef Competition. The festivities actually kick off on Thursday evening with the Ultimate Top Chef Dinner beginning at 6 pm at Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites, the event headquarters. This incredible multicourse dinner is prepared by all-star team composed of several of the amazingly talented Top Chef winners from years past, and each course is expertly paired with a local wine or ale. This exclusive, limited-seating dinner costs less than $100

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North Powder Huckleberry Festival – USA Festivals

editor — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 23:51:00 +0000

North Powder 2nd Street and Old Oregon Trail Last Saturday in July www.unioncountychamber.org/item/north-powder-huckleberry-festival In celebration of wild huckleberries, which grow profusely high in the surrounding Wallowa and Elkhorn Mountains, the tiny far-eastern community of North Powder annually throws this summertime bash that offers something for everyone. The North Powder Huckleberry Festival gets underway with a community breakfast and all-classes school reunion beginning at 7 am, followed by the Huckleberry Festival Parade at 11. Meanwhile, at 8 am the starting gun sounds for the popular Huckleberry Hustle 5K and 10K fun run/walk, and the Huckleberry Hot Rod Show & Shine begins,

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Newberry Event Music And Arts Festival To Defeat Ms – USA Festivals

editor — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:54:00 +0000

Between Sunriver and La Pine DiamondStone Guest Lodges, 16693 Sprague Loop Late July www.newberryevent.com Launched in 2013, the Newberry Event Music and Art Festival to Defeat MS gathers an impressive lineup of outstanding musicians to a beautiful outdoors venue near Sunriver—and all for a great cause—to help fight Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a mysterious neurological and autoimmune disease that damages brain and spinal cord nerve cells. Chronic, and typically progressive, the disease produces symptoms that may include numbness, speech impairment, blurred vision, severe fatigue, and disabled muscular coordination. It can keep people from moving. Gloria Watt has battled MS for more

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