Events

Join Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center to meet author Tim Connors on Saturday, July 23, at 6 PM. In Beautiful Wounds writer and photographer Timothy Connor shares stunning images, engaging field notes, historical narrative, and a touching, personal sojourn. A national award-winning journalist with a passion for nature photography, his writing unfolds the story as the camera illuminates the path. The photography captures the sweeping horizons, braided wetlands, and a surprisingly vibrant wilderness. HIs book is on sale at […]

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! Anjali Silva & Sabor is a smooth and funky fusion of Latin jazz flavors, spiced to perfection; a simmering stew, where the California Coast meets the Colorado Mountains and the Pacific Northwest. ♦Visit the artists on Facebook!

Looking for more instruction and safety practice after taking the 1-Day Beginner/Refresher course? Join this class to learn more paddlesport safety techniques and gain river knowledge specific to the Columbia River with expert hands-on instruction. Take your paddling up a level with this course. About the Event $125/person for WRPC members and non-members. Designed to emphasize safety, enjoyment and skill acquisition as a beginner/intermediate for kayakers (traditional decked kayaks, inflatables and site-on-tops), canoers and SUPers. Rowers are welcome and encouraged […]

Come join in on the fun! Work parties at #2 Canyon every Wednesday evening with Central Washington Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance. Meet at the container at 5:30pm at Canyon 2 main trail about .5 miles up the trail. Can’t make it by 5:30? No problem, we’ll have extra tools with us, working clockwise on Easy Monday removing brake bumps and clearing drain spots. For more information click here.

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 […]