Events

Join Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on Saturday, July 30 for a MakerSpace workshop Basket Weaving Your Story: with Kaila Russell. Weave a beautiful basket with colorfully hand dyed reed with Kaila Russell. Kaila has been sharing her passion of basket weaving for years with youth and adults across the country. She shares her story of life with all the twists and turns and has us explore our own experience, considering our own story as we weave our basket […]

Get into the National Parks for free today in celebration of the Great American Outdoors Act Anniversary. The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), passed in 2020, improving infrastructure and expanding recreation opportunities in national parks and other public lands. The legislation established the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund and guaranteed permanent funding for the existing Land and Water Conservation Fund. The National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund, supported by revenue from energy development, provides up to […]

Community Science Project Miles for Monarchs, an individual or team program from Monarch Joint Venture. Walk, bike, swim, paddle, and run for monarch conservation, February-November, 2022. Designed to engage participants in personal wellness while supporting monarch conservation. A single monarch can fly 3,000 miles, so can we? Register, $10. Family teams welcome!

The Wenatchee Valley Erratics, Ice Age Floods Institute’s next program will be on Tuesday, August 9 at 7:00 PM. Tim Connor will talk about his recently published book, “Beautiful Wounds, A Search for Solace and Light in Washington's Channeled Scablands" Tim is a writer/photographer from Spokane. The book is a collection of his stunning photographs of the Scabland tracts that blend into the Bretz Flood narrative and his own personal story. In conjunction with the book, the Museum has installed […]

Location: Mountain Home Preserve Would you like to spend a weekday morning hiking, viewing wildlife, wildflowers, and snow-capped mountains, while being part of a small team collecting bird species data?  Community Science Projects are collaborations between scientists and volunteers that expand opportunities for scientific data collection and help answer real-world questions. Learn more about becoming a CDLT citizen scientist volunteer by contacting Conservation Fellow, Susan Ballinger at susan@cdlandtrust.org or call 509-667-9708. Please note contact Susan by cell phone 24-hours ahead (509-669-7820) to confirm, because changing weather conditions can result […]

Monthly eBird Surveys at WRI The eBird Surveys go throughout the year from 8-9:30am @ WRI Join WRI’s knowledgeable naturalists on a birding survey around the WRI Campus! eBird is the largest biodiversity-related community science project in the world. We will be utilizing it to record our observations of local wild birds. You will conduct four 15-minute stationary bird counts for an hour of birding. Total walking distance is ½ mile, over a gravel path with two moderate hills. All […]

Singing, dancing and alpine air! This series features performances by great local musicians and dancers amid the majestic mountain lake views. Come join the fun this summer at Lake Wenatchee State Park! The Eclectic Cloggers are a dance group that performs a high energy style of traditional Appalachian step dancing to live, old-time music. This percussive dance form comes from the eastern mountain region of the United States, where it began as a mix of Irish, Scottish and English step dances with African and […]

On March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in North American history swept down the snowy Cascades, burying two trains and killing 96 people. Randy Dasho from Port Orchard, will lead a guided tour of the Wellington site on Saturday, September 3. The tour also visits several other sites between Leavenworth and Stevens Pass that played important roles in the history of the Great Northern Railway Company. Tour-goers meet at the Wenatchee Valley Museum to board a tour bus that departs […]

Event by Stan's Merry Mart Location: Stan's Merry Mart Duration: 1 hr 30 min We are hosting free food preservation classes presented by Margaret Viebrock from the WSU Extension office. Each week a different topic will be covered. Handouts will be provided. Please call Margaret with any questions 509.745.8531 Wednesday, September 7 Successful Sauerkraut & Pickle Making Monday, September 18 Jams, Jellies and Pie Fillings Monday, September 26 Canning Meat, Fish, Wild Game and Soups For more information click here.

Wenatchee Sunrise Rotary Presents the 35th Annual Apple Century Bike Ride DETAILS: 25, 50 or 100 mile fully supported ride through the Wenatchee Valley. - Ride begins in Wenatchee continuing to Lake Wenatchee and returning for the full 100 mile experience, or riders can opt to return once arriving in Leavenworth. Registration fees help support our Challenge Scholarship Program, focusing on at-risk high school students. Our club, while working with school counselors, identify 10th grade students that are at risk […]

Hosted by Actualize Sports & Fitness Join us on Saturday Morning's for a FREE killer community workout! We want to do REALLY HARD workouts with YOU. For some reason, we think it will bond us. These will be the kick in the butt kind of workouts that make you reach for your "SUPER STRENGTH". Where you start to question if you should quit, slow down, or tap out. Make no mistake, our training will improve you just as much mentally […]

Walk to End Alzheimer's Location: Walla Walla Point Park We walk to find a cure, we walk to let people know you are not alone, we walk because memories matter. Please walk with us. For more information click here.