Town festivals in Oregon
Town festivals in Oregon, each compiled from its own sources: the weekend, the parade, and who puts it on. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- '62 DaysCanyon City · CelebrationCanyon City, Oregon's June celebration of the 1862 gold strike, held since 1922 by the Whiskey Gulch Gang, which stages a mock hanging beside the old brewery it owns.
- Aumsville Corn FestivalAumsville · Oregon heritage traditionThe Aumsville Corn Festival, held in Aumsville, Oregon, since 1968, gives away hot corn grown by a local farmer under contract to the city for one August Saturday.
- Aurora Colony DaysAurora · Annual eventA two-day August festival in Aurora, Oregon, that opens on Friday night with a free biergarten in the courtyard of the Old Aurora Colony Museum.
- Azalea FestivalBrookings · FestivalThe Azalea Festival is Brookings, Oregon's Memorial Day weekend celebration, held since 1939; its 1962 grand marshal was the Japanese pilot who had bombed nearby forest in 1942.
- Beachcomber FestivalWaldport · Annual festivalWaldport's three-day June festival on the Oregon coast, counted as the 70th in 2026, when its noon parade closed US101 and two committees claimed the name.
- Bohemia Mining DaysCottage Grove · Free public celebrationCottage Grove's free July festival, begun in 1959, raises a wooden-fronted Bohemia City in Coiner Park and races human-pushed ore carts in honor of the Bohemia Mining District.
- Bonanza DaysBonanza · Annual festivalBonanza Days is a one-day July homecoming in Bonanza, Oregon, a farm town of 465, where old-time carnival games run in booths used for more than 30 years.
- Canyonville Pioneer DaysCanyonville · CommunityCanyonville Pioneer Days, a four-day late-August festival in Pioneer Park in Canyonville, Oregon, honors a supply town on the Applegate Trail with pie auctions, a grease pole and a frog jump.
- Carlton Fun DaysCarlton · Annual celebration of communityCarlton Fun Days is a free two-day June festival in Carlton, Oregon, centered on Ladd Park, with a parade that marches from the elementary school north on Third and west down Main.
- Celebrate MolallaMolalla · FestivalCelebrate Molalla is a free one-day festival under the oaks of Clark Park in Molalla, Oregon, that grew out of a city council plan for 2020 to 2030.
- Chief Joseph DaysJoseph · Rodeo celebrationThe late-July rodeo week in Joseph, Oregon, begun in 1946 on a lake moraine to dedicate an airport, that opens with bucking horses stampeding down Main Street.
- Clatskanie Heritage DaysClatskanie · CelebrationClatskanie, Oregon's Fourth of July celebration, begun as a barbecue-and-baseball drive to build a town pool after drownings, still runs its parade downhill along Nehalem Street.
- Coquille RiverdaysCoquille · FestivalCoquille Riverdays is a two-day June festival in downtown Coquille, Oregon, that grew from the Gay '90s celebration, begun to open the Sawdust Theatre's season.
- Cove Cherry FairCove · FestivalThe Cove Cherry Fair, a free all-volunteer August day on the Ascension School grounds in Cove, Oregon, revives a growers' fair that crowned a King Bing and Queen Anne.
- Cranberry FestivalBandon · FestivalBandon's cranberry harvest festival on the southern Oregon coast, held since 1947, where high-school juniors are crowned Cranberry Queen or King and the parade has run since 1948.
- Culver Crawdad FestivalCulver · Community festival and paradeAn August Saturday parade and crawdad boil in Culver, Oregon, cooked from crawdads pulled out of Lake Billy Chinook, as they have been since Jess Smith's farm party.
- Dallas DaysDallas · EventA free downtown celebration in Dallas, Oregon, held the last weekend of July under a name that has gone from Krazy Dayz to Summerfest, back again, and now Dallas Days.
- Day in DamascusDamascus · Annual community carnivalDay in Damascus is the Damascus Civic Club's July carnival at its privately owned Centennial Park on Highway 212, where local candidates take turns in a dunk tank.
- Dory DaysPacific City · Annual celebration of local dory fishing culturePacific City, Oregon's July festival for its dory fleet, held since 1959, with a parade, a fish fry, and boats that launch straight off the beach at Cape Kiwanda.
- Dufur Threshing BeeDufur · FestivalA harvest weekend in Dufur, Oregon, begun in 1971 by a farmer who noticed passing motorists stopping to watch him work his wheat fields with horses.
- Elephant Garlic FestivalNorth Plains · Festival celebrating elephant garlicA free three-day elephant garlic festival held the second weekend of August in North Plains, Oregon, where every food booth must serve at least one garlic dish.
- Estacada Timber Festival and Fourth of July ParadeEstacadaEstacada, Oregon, spends the Fourth of July on a parade from the high school and back, and in many years on a Timber Festival where working loggers climb fifty-foot poles.
- Festival of ArtsGresham · Arts and cultural eventA free arts festival in historic downtown Gresham, Oregon, where on the third Saturday of July about 150 juried artists set up booths along streets closed to traffic.
- Fiesta MexicanaWoodburn · FestivalA three-day August festival in Woodburn, Oregon's Legion Park, begun in 1964 as an end-of-harvest thank-you to farmworkers and named an Oregon Heritage Tradition in 2017.
- Forest Grove Corn RoastForest Grove · FestivalA day of food, vendors, games, crafts, music, children's events and roasted corn on a street closed for the day; established in 1964 as a way to introduce incoming educators.
- Fort Umpqua DaysElkton · FestivalFort Umpqua Days is a free Labor Day weekend festival in Elkton, Oregon, held around a volunteer-built replica of the Hudson's Bay Company's southernmost fur post.
- Function 4 JunctionJunction City · Show 'n shine · classic cruise · community fundraiserFunction 4 Junction is a volunteer-run June car weekend in downtown Junction City, Oregon, whose Saturday night cruise admits only vehicles of 1979 and older.
- Garibaldi DaysGaribaldi · Family friendly town-wide festivalGaribaldi Days, a three-day July festival on Tillamook Bay at Garibaldi, Oregon, where Coast Guard crews and fire-department teams settle a water ball tournament on Biak Avenue.
- Gold Dust Day Heritage CelebrationGold Hill · Community eventGold Hill, Oregon, holds its Gold Dust Day on the first Saturday in June, with a parade down 2nd Avenue and free raft rides on the Rogue River.
- Grassroots FestivalUnion · Festival & car showA free one-day August festival on Union, Oregon's closed Main Street, with a car show, more than 30 yard sales, and a rubber duck race on Catherine Creek.
- Harrisburg Harvest FestivalHarrisburg · Tractor and truck pullA two-night truck and tractor pull a mile north of Harrisburg, Oregon, where a seventy-year-old Allis Chalmers and trucks of over 1,500 horsepower hook to the pulling sled.
- Hells Canyon Mule DaysEnterprise · Mule showA three-day mule show at the Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise, Oregon, held since 1981 on the weekend after Labor Day, with a log pull and a flapjack race.
- Homer Davenport DaysSilverton · Primary multi-day festivalSilverton, Oregon's August festival for its native-son cartoonist Homer Davenport, held since 1980, ends each year with teams pushing couches down Main Street.
- Hop & Heritage FestivalIndependence · Annual harvest celebrationA September harvest festival in downtown Independence, Oregon, once the Hop Capital of the World, where beers brewed with hops picked hours earlier pour in the town that grew them.
- Huckleberry FestivalNorth Powder · Small town festivalAn annual July festival in North Powder, Oregon, for the wild huckleberry of the surrounding mountains, where the Wolf Creek Grange serves the fruit in milkshakes.
- Irrigon Watermelon FestivalIrrigon · Annual community festivalA last-Saturday-of-July festival at Irrigon Marina Park on the Columbia in Oregon, where Hermiston melons go by the slice between a 6 a.m. breakfast and 10 p.m. fireworks.
- July JubileeNorth Bend · Hometown celebrationJuly Jubilee is North Bend, Oregon's three-day July birthday party for itself, begun in 1983 as a celebration held whether or not voters merged the city with Coos Bay.
- June Dairy ParadeTillamookAnnual June Dairy Parade celebrating Tillamook's dairy heritage, with more than 90 entries; the same weekend as the Tillamook County Rodeo and the Milk Run; the Tillamook Farmers Market runs in downtown that Saturday morning.
- Klamath Basin Potato FestivalMerrill · FestivalA two-day harvest festival in Merrill, Oregon, held since 1934 by most accounts, where growers enter boxed Russets for judging and the Lions Club feeds the crowd free.
- La Pine Frontier DaysLa Pine · 4th of july celebrationA four-day Fourth of July celebration in La Pine, Oregon, begun in 1976 and now held on old Finley Ranch pasture, where mowers race and children fish stocked trout.
- Lebanon Strawberry FestivalLebanon · FestivalA four-day June festival at Cheadle Lake Park in Lebanon, Oregon, held since 1909, where the Saturday parade ends in free slices of a shortcake billed as the world's largest.
- Linn County Pioneer PicnicBrownsville · Oregon’s oldest continuing celebrationOregon's oldest continuous pioneer celebration, a free three-day June picnic in Brownsville's Pioneer Park on the Calapooia, never canceled since its first reunion in 1887.
- Maupin DazeMaupin · Annual summer kickoff eventA celebration of the Maupin Community & our annual summer kickoff event!
- Melon FestHermiston · A celebration of watermelon & communityHermiston Melon Fest, a one-day August street festival in downtown Hermiston, Oregon, hands out local watermelon free by the slice while three-person teams race bathtubs from Hershey down Festival Street.
- Milwaukie FestMilwaukie · Annual weekend-long summer festivalMilwaukie's signature events bring long-time residents and newcomers together to enjoy each other's company and celebrate what makes the city unique. The city hosts the following signature events each year: Arbor Day, Umbrella Parade & Tree Lighting, Winter Solstice & Christmas Ships, Earth Day.
- Miners JubileeBaker City · Town days celebrationBaker City, Oregon's three-day July celebration of Baker County gold mining, with a parade, a state gold panning championship, and, until 1991, porcupine races.
- Molalla Buckeroo and July 4th CelebrationMolalla · 4th of july rodeo traditionMolalla's Fourth of July rodeo in Clackamas County, Oregon, has run on Shirley Street since a 1913 celebration of the town's first train, with fireworks after every evening show.
- Molalla Heritage Apple FestivalMolalla · Heritage festivalVendors, apple pie and apple cider, with cider-pressing demonstrations.
- Monroe FestivalDowntown Monroe · FestivalA free one-day Saturday festival in downtown Monroe, Oregon, pouring Southern Willamette Valley wine, beer and spirits beside a blueberry pie contest and vintage log trucks.
- Mosquito FestivalPaisley · FestivalPaisley, Oregon's festival on the last full weekend of July, begun in 1984 to buy mosquito spray for a high-desert town built on the Chewaucan Marsh.
- Multnomah Days Festival & ParadePortland · One-day open-airA one-day street festival and parade in Portland's Multnomah Village, begun by local merchants about 1920, whose parade admits no motorized vehicles or floats.
- National Rooster Crow WeekendRogue River · FestivalA late-June weekend in Rogue River, Oregon, held since 1953, whose main event counts how many times each entered rooster crows in thirty minutes.
- Newport Loyalty Days & Sea Fair FestivalNewport · FestivalEach May, Newport, Oregon, closes Highway 101 for one of the few Loyalty Day parades still held in the country, then blesses its fishing fleet on Yaquina Bay.
- Northwest Cherry FestivalThe Dalles · Annual festivalThe Northwest Cherry Festival is an April celebration in The Dalles, Oregon, that grew from a growers' Cherry Sweetheart contest begun in 1960 into the Gorge's largest parade.
- Painted Hills FestivalMitchell · FestivalA one-day town festival in Mitchell, Oregon, on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, that starts runners in the Painted Hills and ends with water troughs rolling down Main Street.
- Pilot Rock Community DaysPilot Rock · Family eventSaturday activities include a fireman's breakfast, yard sales, horseshoes, cornhole, vendors, parade, unofficial car show, beer garden and live music.
- Pioneer Days Picnic and CelebrationWeston · Annual celebrationThe Umatilla County Pioneer Picnic has been held in Weston, Oregon, since 1892. Each June it crowns a queen from an old settler family before a parade down Water Street.
- PorchfestGrants Pass · Free, family-friendly music festivalA free one-day music festival on the front porches of historic houses in northwest Grants Pass, Oregon, where the streets close to cars and the bands play for tips.
- Prideville FestivalPrineville, Oregon · Pride festJoin Prideville to show our "Small Town, Big Pride" at this year's 6th annual Pride fest in downtown Prineville.
- Prineville Western DaysPrineville · FestivalA two-day vendor festival in Prineville's Pioneer Park, held each June on Crooked River Roundup rodeo weekend, where the Saturday parade down Third Street comes to an end.
- Rainier Days in the ParkRainier · 3 day festivalA three-day riverfront carnival, parade, and fireworks show in Rainier, Oregon, organized since 2011 by the mayor, his wife, and his daughter, with volunteers.
- Rhododendron Festival (Rhody Days)Florence · Floral festivalFlorence's biggest celebration and one of Oregon's longest-running floral festivals, held throughout Florence.
- Robin Hood FestivalSherwood · Summer festivalEach third weekend of July since 1954, Old Town Sherwood, Oregon, holds a Robin Hood festival that knights its volunteers and shoots arrows against Nottingham, England.
- Santiam SummerFestStayton · Street fairA free one-day street fair on Third Avenue in downtown Stayton, Oregon, held each last Saturday of July, with lumberjacks working near the Jordan Covered Bridge.
- Sawdust JubileeRiddle · Annual eventRiddle's beginning-of-summer celebration returns Saturday, June 27, as Sawdust Jubilee brings a full day of food, music, family activities, local traditions and fireworks to town.
- Shaniko DaysShaniko · Annual event celebrating the inland wool capital of the worldSimplified wildfire program: live music Friday evening and Saturday, mechanical bull rides, cake auction, Ferrari Club from 12:30p-1:30p, and dinner.
- Sherman County Harvest FestivalGrass Valley · Harvest festivalA one-day harvest fair of children's activities, local makers and live entertainment, set for September 2027 in Grass Valley, Oregon, a Sherman County wheat town named for rye grass.
- Strawberry FestivalSilverton · FestivalThe Silverton Strawberry Festival, held each Father's Day in Silverton, Oregon, has served strawberry shortcake since 1951, and anyone two or younger or 80 or older eats free.
- Sutherlin StampedeSutherlin · RodeoA July night of bull riding, mutton bustin' and queen crowning in Sutherlin, Oregon, run by volunteers on a rodeo that once took canned food as admission.
- Talent Harvest FestivalTalent · Harvest celebrationSouthern Oregon's free downtown harvest festival in Talent, begun in 1971 as the Talent Tomato Festival, where neighbors' backyard apples and pears go into one community cider.
- Tamkaliks CelebrationWallowa · Three-day celebration of nez perce cultureA three-day Nez Perce powwow and homecoming each July on the Wallowa River at Wallowa, Oregon, ending in a Sunday feast of salmon, elk, deer, and buffalo.
- Teddy Bear ParadeGresham · Annual paradeAn annual parade through downtown Gresham, Oregon, held the last Saturday of September since 1982, in which marchers and watchers carry teddy bears later given to children in need.
- Thunderegg DaysNyssa · FestivalThunderegg Days is a three-day July festival in Nyssa, Oregon, where cut and polished specimens of the state rock have been laid out for visitors since 1966.
- Toledo Summer Festival & Logging ShowToledo · Toledo summer festivalA three-day July festival on Memorial Field in Toledo, Oregon, a Yaquina River mill town, where amateurs throw axes and pull crosscut saws between the carnival and the fireworks.
- UFO FestivalMcMinnville · UFO festivalA May weekend of UFO talks, costumes, and an alien parade in McMinnville, Oregon, held since 2000 to mark Paul and Evelyn Trent's 1950 flying-saucer photographs.
- Umatilla Landing DaysUmatilla · Family fun festivalUmatilla Landing Days, a free June festival at Umatilla Marina Park on the Columbia, marks the 1862 founding of Umatilla Landing with fireworks billed as the season's first.
- Vernonia Friendship Jamboree and Logging ShowVernonia · Community logging heritage festivalA three-day August reunion in Vernonia, Oregon, begun after the town's sawmill closed in 1957 and built around a logging show where competitors run logs across Rock Creek.
- White Cedar DaysPowers · Annual independence day celebrationAn Independence Day weekend in Powers, Oregon, held since 1976, where competitors drag choker cables and throw axes at a loggers' Shodeo on borrowed logs.
- Yamhill Derby DaysYamhill · Yamhill derby days paradeYamhill, Oregon's July festival in Beulah Park, begun for a general store's anniversary, where children aged 8 to 11 race homemade derby cars down a steep ramp.
Town Festivals in all eleven states; next door in Washington, Idaho, Nevada, and California.