Portland OR Fall Festivals 2024 Events

Wild Arts Festival - Portland, OR - Dec 7 to Dec 8, 2024
Celebrate nature in arts and books at this event, benefitting the Audubon Society of Portland. Fun for the whole family awaits with children’s activities from noon to 2pm Sunday.

Lake Oswego Christmas Tree Lighting - Lake Oswego, OR - Nov 29 to Nov 29, 2024
Almost 60 years of this time-honored tradition. This evening of cheer includes caroling, performances from local high schools and Millennium Concert Band, sweet treats and more. Gather at the corner of 5th Street & A Avenue to light the Bigelow Plaza Holiday Tree, then parade down to Millennium Plaza Park to enjoy the lighting of the Millennium Tree. The evening is completed by the Lake Oswego Fire Department’s delivery of a very special guest from the North Pole.

Tree Lighting Ceremony - Portland, OR - Nov 29 to Nov 29, 2024
Featuring a joyful sing-along with Portland’s local musicians and chorale singers, this event is the highlight of the holiday season in downtown. Join in the celebration as Santa Claus ‘flips the switch’ to illuminate more than 14,000 colorful LED lights on the City’s 75ft Douglas-fir

Turkeython Tigard - Tigard, OR - Nov 28 to Nov 28, 2024
5k run/walk on Thanksgiving morning. Costumes welcome

Give ‘n Gobble Run - Sherwood, OR - Nov 28 to Nov 28, 2024
Since 2007, walkers and runners of all ages have gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving morning together at this “turkey trot Portland” themed event. The goal has always been simple, connect with family, friends, and neighbors while burning a few calories…and giving back. That simple goal has raised over $500,000 and 80,000 lbs. of food donations for local families in need, plus funded the Helping Hands Backpack Meals for Kids program, which has provided over 100,000 meals for at risk children. This fun and heart-warming event has become a Thanksgiving holiday tradition, drawing an average of 2,200 participants on Thanksgiving morning.

Oregon Zoo Lights - Portland, OR - Nov 22 to Jan 5, 2025
Kids and adults alike agree: it wouldn’t be the holidays in Portland without a visit to ZooLights. In addition to the classic walk through a dazzling display of 1.5 million lights, you can bring your family and friends to explore the lights by car with a drive-through experience on select nights.

Wine Country Thanksgiving - Newburg, OR - Nov 22 to Dec 1, 2024
This unique Oregon tradition kickw off the holiday season as wineries throughout the Willamette Valley offer special tastings, food pairings, live music, holiday discounts and other wine country experiences. Each winery celebrates the festive weekend with its own flare

Holiday Food and Gift Festival - Portland, OR - Nov 8 to Nov 10, 2024
A series of holiday festivals comes to Portland once more! Thousands of attendees complete their holiday shopping early, with hundreds of exhibitors offering one of a kind gifts including arts and crafts, decor, clothing, gourmet food and more!

Portland Book Festival - Portland, OR - Nov 2 to Nov 2, 2024
Formerly called Wordstock, this annual book festival returns again, and is held at the Portland Art Museum and nearby venues. Enjoyed by about 10,000 people each year, this festival offers over 100 authors in various onstage events, pop-up readings, and writing workshops, plus a book fair, local food trucks and more!

Harvest on the Harbor - Portland, ME - Oct 24 to Oct 26, 2024
Culinary creations from Maine’s top chefs. Events include sampling at the marketplace, the Maine Lobster Chef of the Year Competition, and Grand Tasting on the Harbor (wine, beer and spirits with views of Casco Bay while enjoying morsels from notable Maine chefs). 21+ events

Portland Film Festival - Portland, OR - Oct 16 to Oct 20, 2024
MovieMaker Magazine called it one of the coolest film festivals in the world. This festival brings a week of film premieres, networking, workshops, guest speakers, Q&A’s and more to Portland.

Hood River Valley Harvest Fest - Hood River, OR - Oct 11 to Oct 13, 2024
More than 120 vendors will be present offering local food, produce, arts & crafts; wine, cider, and beer tastings. Kids area with bouncy houses, face painting and more make this event fun for the whole family. Adult tickets are $6 a day. Discounts for seniors and military. Kids under 12 are free. A portion of the proceeds are donated to non-profit organizations in the community.

Occidental Brewing Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Oct 7 to Oct 7, 2024
A day filled with Festbier, bratwurst, music, more beer, and friends. Admission is free. You need a stein for beer which can be purchased for $10 at the gate or you can use yours from any years past

Hood River Hops Fest - Hood River, OR - Oct 5 to Oct 5, 2024
Hood River County is surrounded by world-renowned hop-growing regions, and since 2003 brewers have gathered each October in downtown Hood River to share their fresh-hop beer creations.

Birdfest and Bluegrass - Ridgefield, WA - Oct 5 to Oct 5, 2024
25th anniversary. BirdFest and Bluegrass is the main event every year that the Friends puts on to bring awareness to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, and all that it has to offer. Celebrate the Sandhill Crane returning to the Refuge, a huge stately bird that is endangered in Washington State, and celebrate everything the Refuge is and what it brings to the community. With endangered species, hundreds of migratory species, an auto tour route, photo blind, walking trails, the Cathlapotle Plankhouse, education and habitat restoration programs, and so much more – there is a lot to celebrate, and a lot to learn. There are workshops, hikes and walks all catered to teach you how to use the Refuge. You can learn how to listen for bird species, identify plants, about the geology of the area, the peoples who came before us and still tend to the land, how to take photos of it all, paint the landscape, and much more.

FashioNXT - Portland, OR - Oct 3 to Oct 5, 2024
Portland’s Fashion Week, called #1 in the US after New York Fashion Week! Incubators and accelerator to help the next generation of fashion talents, plus services for fashion and technology.

Oktoberfest and Brewfest at Kennedy School - Portland, OR - Sep 28 to Sep 28, 2024
More than a dozen German-style craft beers, plus burgers, brats, and warm pretsels to nosh on while enjoying live music

The Wedge - Portland, OR - Sep 28 to Sep 28, 2024
Taste and buy hundreds of cheeses (plus other specialty foods and beverages) from 75+ artisanal producers. Don’t forget your cooler! 21+ event

Flock and Fiber Festival - Canby, OR - Sep 21 to Sep 22, 2024
Demonstrations, workshops, livestock shows and kids’ activities. Since 1997.

Bike MS Oregon - McMinnville, OR - Sep 21 to Sep 22, 2024
Bike MS is more than a ride. It’s an experience grounded in camaraderie and marked by passion, inspiration, determination and pure enjoyment. It will be an experience you’ll never forget, shared with new friends and old.

McMenamin’s Oktoberfests – Oregon - , OR - Sep 21 to Oct 5, 2024
Beer, music, more beer, bratwurst, and more – at a McMenamins location near you, Oregon! Check out their website to find the time and location nearest you (or see how many you can go to!)

Elktoberfest - Vancouver, WA - Sep 20 to Sep 21, 2024
Enjoy music, food and fun, featuring traditional German fare and general merrymaking! Hosted by the Elks Lodge #823

Pacific Northwest Brew Cup - Astoria, OR - Sep 20 to Sep 21, 2024
Local beer, live music, food and kids activities. More than 15 breweries from the Pacific Northwest.

Oktoberfest at Oaks Park - Portland, OR - Sep 20 to Sep 22, 2024
This Portland Oktoberfest has authentic food, live oompah music, Paulaner beer, wiener dog races, Kinderplatz for children, Oktoberfest fun run and the chicken dance. Event gets underway on Friday at 4:00 pm. Admission is $6.

Belmont Street Fair - Portland, OR - Sep 14 to Sep 14, 2024
One of the largest-attended street fairs in Portland, with food and retail vendors of all kinds, show-stopping performances, and activities for all ages

Oregon Celtic Fest - Canby, OR - Sep 13 to Sep 15, 2024
Live entertainment, food and vendors

Mount Angel Oktoberfest - Mount Angel, OR - Sep 12 to Sep 15, 2024
This Oregon Oktoberfest has a traditional biergarten, weingarten and alpinegarten as well as over 50 Alpine food chalets. Live music on four stages with over 30 musical groups performing. Large arts & crafts show as well as the Cruz-n Car Show. Kindergarten with free rides and shows. Glockenspiel plays 4 times a day and there’s dancing in the streets on Friday and Saturday night. There’s also a golf tournament, volleyball tournament, 10K run and 5K run/walk. Location: 5 Garfield St, Mount Angel, OR

Portland Dragon Boat Festival - Portland, OR - Sep 7 to Sep 8, 2024
A DragonSports USA organized dragon boat race held annually in September. Enjoy live entertainment, food vendors and a beer garden, plus beautiful views of the Willamette River while watching a 500m dragon boat race.

German American Society of Portland Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Sep 7 to Sep 7, 2024
Details have not been released for this year. Location: Deutsches Haus, 5626 NE Alameda St. Portland

Rose City Comic Con - Portland, OR - Sep 6 to Sep 8, 2024
Portland’s premier pop culture event at the Oregon Convention Center.

Oregon Independent Film Festival - Portland, OR - Sep 4 to Sep 29, 2024
Screens 75+ films from 10+ countries over two weeks at multiple venues including The Clinton Street Theater in Portland and the Bijou and Metro cinemas in Eugene.

Labor Day BBQ at St Josef’s - Canby, OR - Sep 1 to Sep 1, 2024
Come celebrate the last Sunday of summer with BBQ and music on the patio at St Josef’s Winery.

Lake Oswego Collector Car and Boat Show - Lake Oswego, OR - Aug 25 to Aug 25, 2024
Admission is free and all proceeds benefit Oswego Heritage House and Museum, the City’s home of local history preservation, community events, and educational programs! What started out as a handful of collector cars on display at Millennium Plaza in 2000 has grown to become one of the Region’s best known shows with free admission and shuttles for everyone. Don’t miss the Summer’s most unique gathering of Collector Cars and Classic Boats on display at all three Lake Oswego venues, including George Rogers Park, Sundeleaf Plaza and Foothills Park.

Bounty of Yamhill County - McMinnville, OR - Aug 17 to Aug 18, 2024
Bounty of Yamhill County is a three-day food & wine event that partners chefs, vintners and farms throughout Oregon’s Willamette Valley to create one-of-a-kind culinary adventures

Old Apple Tree Festival - Vancouver, WA - Oct 7 to Oct 7, 2023
Celebrate the oldest living apple tree in the Northwest, planted at Fort Vancouver in 1826. (It just died in 2020 at 194 years young, but it’s root suckers remain). Enjoy the trees, apples, and cider amidst the National Historic Site setting, plus live music, tree care workshops, tours of the Vancouver land bridge, kids activities, apple press (bring clean apples and containers to participate) and more!

St Josef Grapestomping Festival - Canby, OR - Sep 23 to Sep 24, 2023
Grapestomping in 1200 gallon oak barrels, dancing, 400 lbs of sausages and sauerkraut, drinks, and more. Admission is $10 per person and includes souvenir glass, and you may even get picked to stomp the grapes with a partner!

Prost! Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Sep 22 to Sep 24, 2023
This event takes over the Marketplace for a massive biergarten filled with Lederhosen, Dirndls, traditional music, glassware for sale, face painting, and plenty of Oktoberfest bier flowing.

Zoiglhaus Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Sep 16 to Sep 17, 2023
Oktoberfest returns to Zoiglhaus and this time it’s all weekend long!

Widmer Brothers Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Sep 24 to Sep 24, 2022
Held at Widmer Brothers Brewing and featuring live music, family friendly entertainment, German inspired food offerings from Pig Sauce Co., and of course plenty of your favorite Widmer Brothers beers.

Stammtisch Oktoberfest - Portland, OR - Sep 23 to Sep 25, 2022
Stammtisch will take over the street for a massive biergarten with traditional music, a German cookout, glassware for sale, games, face painting, and plenty of Oktoberfest bier flowing

Oregon Fall Wine Country Half Marathon - Independence, OR - Sep 4 to Sep 4, 2022
2024 – taking a strategic pause, but they expect to be back next year. Normally: Run a sanctioned 13.1 miler through the vineyards in Independence and down the quiet surrounding country roads.

Portland’s Public Menorah at Pioneer Courthouse Square - Portland, OR - Nov 28 to Dec 5, 2021
Chabad of Oregon will light Portland’s Public Hanukkah menorah at Pioneer Courthouse Square

Portland Queer Film Festival - Portland, OR - Oct 1 to Oct 7, 2021
Cinema 21 hosts a festival of features, documentary, and short films made aroud the world, by, about, or of interest to the LGBT community