Events

September 30, 2017 The third-annual Dark Side Festival will be held from 10 a.m to 12 a.m., Saturday, Sept.30, 2017, at Squilchuck State Park featuring a mountain bike race and a beginner skills clinic during the day, and mountain bike rides and trail runs during the evening hours. There also will be live music, a beer garden and food by Smoke Blossom. Weekend camping is available. Tickets are $20 per person pre-event (online only) and $25 per person the day-of at the state […]

Location: Squilchuck State Park Hosted by: Ridge Cycle Sport and Wenatchee Valley Velo Cross country mountain bike race at Squilchuck State Park near Wenatchee. Racing for all ability levels and ages. Part of the Dark Side Festival so plan on coming early and hanging around all weekend for fantastic riding and fun! CLICK HERE for more information.

Date: Sat, 09/30/2017 Time: 9 AM and 11 AM Location: Saddle Rock Trailhead Join the Chelan Douglas Land Trust at Saddle Rock Trailhead for weekly kid-focused hikes. Explore our trails with fun, hands-on activities to get up close and personal with nature. Learn how to help your child love healthy, active, and safe play in the outdoors. These hikes are about 1.5 hours long and are offered twice a day. They will be on easy to moderate terrain. We'll take lots of […]

When: Tuesday Oct. 3rd at 7pm. Where: Wenatchee Valley Museum Cost: Free with suggested donation of $5 Historian E. Richard Hart and biologist/musician Ken Bevis team up to deliver a fun, scholarly program on the history of the Methow tribe, the Columbia Reservation and the beautiful valley and river system that sustained indigenous hunter/gatherer populations for centuries. Hart will use slides of newly discovered images featured in his book "Lost Homeland," while Bevis will perform original songs inspired by the […]

Date: Saturday, October 7 at 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT Where: Pybus Public Market Ready, set, GLOW! Serve Wenatchee Valley presents: Light The Loop 2017. Grab your friends and family and take a short stroll (or run!) down a fun, lighted part of the trail. The night will be filled with glowing costumes, music from local musicians, activities for children and more. Registration and festivities begin at 6pm and the race starts at 7pm. All proceeds benefit the work […]

Team Naturaleza presents a Fall Migration Walk Sunday, October 8 at 1 PM - 3 PM Location: Walla Walla Point Park Let's adventure on town! Team Naturaleza invites you to a FREE and family-friendly walk with us at the Walla Walla Park to observe beautiful migratory birds returning to South America. Marjie Loodwick, a local USFWS biologist who loves to share about nature with others, will introduce us to the Columbia River Basin on a 2-3 mile walk on a […]

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, October 10 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee. Big, bigger, biggest: Catastrophic flooding on Earth and Mars The Wenatchee Valley Erratics go to Mars, two meetings in a row! Dr. John Buchanan, EWU professor of geology, will talk about catastrophic outburst flooding by various mechanisms that have been occurring on Earth and Mars through geologic time. Dr. Buchanan will examine how the […]

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Location: The Barn @ Barn Beach Reserve, 347 Division Street, Leavenworth, WA Hosted by the Wenatchee River Institute & A Book for All Seasons ADMISSION BY DONATION, ALL AGES WELCOME! DOORS OPEN AT 6:30PM FOR NO HOST REFRESHMENTS Langdon Cook goes in search of the salmon in "Upstream", his timely and in-depth look at how these beloved fish have nourished humankind through the ages and why their destiny is so closely tied to our own. […]

The YMCA presents-October 13th, 2017 is the first day for our Out of Bounds program. During that day we will be at Enchantment Park and the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery. The fees are $29 for members and $39 for community members. The fees increase by $10 the Friday before. Program check in begins at 7:30am and we will arrive back to the YMCA by 4:00pm. At Enchantment Park, we will be playing on the playground, playing parachute games, and eating […]

Saturday, October 14: 9:00am to 5:00pm The Wenatchee Valley Museum Presents- Tour shows you the site of the largest landslide to have occurred in the country. You will learn to read and thereby understand the features of the basalt cliffs. Once upon the Waterville Plateau, you will see evidence of the continental ice sheet that once covered this area: Withrow Terminal Moraine, Kames, Eskars, Drumlins an Kettles. See the Grand Terrace At Brewster and the source of the Glacial Erratics […]

Location: Arlberg Sports in Wenatchee Event is free and refreshments will be provided. Doors open: 6:00 PM Presentation starts: 6:15 PM Transitioning from alpine skiing to the backcountry can be a rewarding but daunting endeavor. To help with the gear learning curve, Arlberg Sports is hosting an evening with SCARPA & G3 Genuine Guide Gear to delve into the equipment required to transition from inbounds skiing and into the backcountry. Topics to be covered: • Traditional alpine skis VS backcountry […]

When: Tuesday Oct. 17th 7pm Where: Wenatchee Valley Museum Cost: Free with suggested donation of $5 Sponsor: Wenatchee River Institute In late July of 2016, four men from Wenatchee pushed off from the shore of Point Lake in Canada's Northwest Territory and launched down the Coppermine River. After 24 days of paddling, the four reached their destination, the Arctic Ocean and the Inuit village of Kugluktuk. Andy Dappen, Neal Hedges, Paul Hessburg and Robbie Scott give a presentation about their […]