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1. Ashland

   Shakespeare Festival, outdoor activities, Mt. Ashland for skiing, culture and arts… people who visit often want to move to Ashland. This vibrant community tucked in the shadow of the Siskiyou Mountains, home to Southern Oregon University has been voted among the top 10 best small towns to both visit…

   Location: 555 Siskiyou Blvd, Ashland Oregon, OR 97520

2. Bigfoot Bash and Bounty

   Skamania County is the only designated “Sasquatch Refuge” in the United States and Bigfoot Bash and Bounty celebrates the love of this mysterious creature.  An event designed to promote all of the spectacular natural settings that Bigfoot likes to call home, it is a festival…

   Location: 50092 Home Valley Park Road, Home Valley, WA 98648

3. Bird Fest and Bluegrass

   Join the Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge and the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Staff as they celebrate the coming of fall and the wildlife that make the Refuge their winter home. BirdFest and Bluegrass is an opportunity to enjoy the sights and sounds of…

   Location: I-5 exit 14 S 9th Ave/S Hillhurst Dr, Ridgefield, WA

4. Blackberry Jam Festival

   This annual family-fun event is held in Lowell, on the Dexter Reservoir overlooking a beautiful, verdant recreation area. The event includes drag boat races on the lake, live music and food venues, art contests and a fishing derby with a prize of $10,000.   The fully restored…

   Location: Rolling Rock Park, Lowell, OR 97452

5. Bohemia Mining Days

   Celebrating the history of gold mining is a tradition in the community of Cottage Grove. The Bohemia Mining Days festival is held the third weekend in July. 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of this event. The Bohemia Mining Days Parade fills Main Street with spectators of all…

   Location: Cottage Grove, OR

6. Canyonville Pumpkin and Music Celebration

   This festival features a giant pumpkin weigh-in, carved pumpkins, scarecrows, tall tales and pie-eating, seed-spittin’ and pumkin recipe contests. There’s a classic car show, a perennial plant swap, an exotic animal show, hay rides and a wine and beer garden. If that’s not enough fun,…

   Location: Pioneer Park, Canyonville, OR 97417

7. Cascade Cycling Classic

   The Cascade Cycling Classic is the longest consecutively run elite stage race in the country, and it has attracted most of North America’s top cyclists and teams over the years. The quality of the race courses, the beauty of Central Oregon and the fun atmosphere…

   Location: 563 SW 13th Street Suite 201, Bend, OR 97702

8. Cascade Locks

   Cascade Locks was originally called Whiskey Flats. Home to more than 100 bars, saloons and bordellos at one point, the town’s name was changed before the locks were built in the late 1800s to accommodate steamboat travel (and races) up the Columbia to the inland empire. The…

   Location: 100 Wa-Na-Pa St., Cascade Locks, OR 97014

9. Celilo First Salmon Ceremony

   This is the key annual ceremony devoted to the first salmon to arrive at the site of sacred Celilo Falls, (now buried by the reservoir behind The Dalles Dam), the single most significant indigenous fresh-water fishery in the entire Columbia River Basin, sacred to all the…

   Location: Celilo Village, OR

10. City of Rogue River

    Local communities in Southern Oregon are building the Rogue River Recreational Corridor and Greenway. It’s best described as an emerald necklace of parks and public-access areas along the Rogue River connected by a ribbon of greenway trail spanning 30 miles from Grants Pass to Central Point. …

    Location: Depot Street Bridge, Rogue River, OR 97537