Eastern Oregon Fall Festivals 2023

Baker County Fair and Panhandle Rodeo - Halfway, OR - Sep 2 to Sep 4, 2023
Parade, musical entertainment, dance, mule races, antique cars and antique merry go round.

Harney County Fair - Burns, OR - Sep 5 to Sep 9, 2023
Annual event, with rodeo, livestock exhibits, race meet and more

Great Salt Lick Art Contest/Auction - Baker City, OR - Sep 16 to Sep 16, 2023
This unique philanthropic event raises funds for the Parkinson’s Center of Oregon. For weeks before the event, local bovine artists are hard at working licking their salt into shape, and at the event it will be judged and put up for auction!

Crossroads Oktoberfest - Baker City, OR - Sep 22 to Sep 23, 2023
This year the Baker Event Center will be transformed into a fun-filled Oktoberfest. Join signature food and spirits providers for a wonderful Oktoberfest meal, plus live music . Tickets are on sale for $35.00 a person this includes dinner made by the Little Pig in traditional Oktoberfest fare!

Alpenfest - Joseph, OR - Sep 28 to Oct 1, 2023
This is Oregon’s Little Switzerland and their annual Bavarian type festival featuring polka music, fold dancing, alphorn blowing, yodeling and much more. A bit like a traditional Oktoberfest, but embracing the craft beer made in Eastern Oregon, using those made in the Swiss, German, Czech, or Austrian style. The only Swiss-Bavarian festival in the western US, Alpenfest salutes all the nations and principalities that stretch through the Alps. Since 1978.

Taste of Baker - Baker City, OR - Oct 7 to Oct 7, 2023
Participating restaurants line the streets with samples in exchange for “taste tokens”