Things to Do in Seaside Oregon This Weekend: Events Guide
Things to Do in Seaside Oregon This Weekend: Events Guide
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Seaside Travel Guide
Seaside and Community Events: August 21, 22 and 23
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The Seaside Museum is bringing back one of the Oregon coast's oldest floral traditions later this month, renewing an event that first took root more than a century ago.
(Above: Dahlia Parade, Seaside 1958 - Sweepstakes winners Griffith and Gustafson children as mother goose characters)
Seaside
Seaside Museum: Blooms with Historic Dahlia Show Returning to North Oregon Coast
📅Saturday, August 22, 2026 | noon to 4:00 PM
📍570 Necanicum Drive
Seaside adopted the dahlia as its official flower in 1909, picking it for its striking appearance and reliable growth along the Oregon coast. That same year, the burgeoning tourist Mecca of Seaside launched its first Dahlia Show. By 1913, the Children’s Dahlia Parade had become part of the festivities, continuing annually until 1964.
“The Seaside Museum is honored (and excited) to revive this historical tradition for the enrichment of our community,” it said in a press release.
Interest in dahlias has surged in recent years. The museum called it “blooming.” Growers are introducing new varieties bred for both appearance and durability - traits well suited to coastal weather. Many of the blooms in the museum’s Butterfield Garden are heirloom varieties dating to the late 1800s and early 1900s, though all types of dahlias may be entered.
2026 Seaside Beach Discovery Program
📅August 21 and 22, 2026 | 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
📍On the beach in front of the Seaside Aquarium. 200 North Prom Seaside, OR
For 31 years, the Seaside Beach Discovery Program has invited summer visitors to learn and talk about the natural world they have come to explore.
This is a free program on the beach in front of the Seaside Aquarium. Young and old alike are delighted with the personal attention, hands-on displays, old photos, and great discussions that occur.
Seaside Aquarium staff members use several interactive displays, including microscopes, which showcase diverse creatures such as plant and animal plankton, amphipods and seaweed. We have many historical photos to help people compare human and geological changes over time. We add shells and other tideline discoveries to reinforce the idea that an ever-changing ocean can lead to important changes for people, plants, and animals. One popular display, in the form of a signpost, points out that people are not our only visitors. Numerous flying or swimming animals make enormous round-trip journeys every year and many use our beach as a pit stop to rest and feed. We use instruments such as tide tables, wind gauges, thermometers, and salinity gauges to compare daily, and sometimes hourly, changes to a seemingly static beach. These lead to displays about beach safety, verbal talks about gravity, the moon and tides, sand movement, upwellings, rip currents, and the food chain. All of this helps to spark discussions that lead to helping people see the interconnectivity of sand, water, air, plants and animals, the earth, the moon, and humans’ relationships to that process.
The Seaside Beach Discovery Program began in 1995 to engage the public about life on an open sandy beach. The idea was to try to change people’s perspective from being a beach they use to recreate on to a thriving beach ecosystem.
Beach Towel Tuesdays
📅Every Tuesday through summer
📍The Welcome Center, 7 N. Roosevelt
Every Tuesday through summer – while supplies last – the first five groups of visitors who post a fun Seaside photo or video on social media and then stop by the Welcome Center will receive a free limited-edition Seaside beach towel. Photos and videos can feature anything from sunset selfies to rainy-day discoveries. We want to showcase the wide variety of ways visitors enjoy their time in Seaside!
The Seaside Farmers Market
📅Every Wednesday through September 9th
The Seaside Farmers Market is located in the Sunset Recreation Center parking lot along Highway 101 near Broadway and the Seaside Welcome Center.
The food court is open 12pm – 6 pm and the main market features locally-grown produce, meats, eggs, and cheeses as well as a variety of other locally-produced goods is open 1pm – 6pm.
Gearhart
Sand Trap Bingo
📅Friday, August 21, 2026 | 5PM doors, 6PM bingo
📍Livingstone's Room, The Gearhart Hotel - 1157 N Marion Ave. Gearhart
Free
All ages welcome
Bring your own dauber or use ours - good times await either way. Bingo is ON once a month in Livingstone's Room. Fun prizes for bingos, or win the biggie, an overnight stay at the Gearhart Hotel, if you win the final blackout round.
Those Pale Stars
📅Saturday, August 22, 2026 | 4-6 pm
📍Gearhart Hotel - Sand Bar, 1157 N Marion, Gearhart
Free
About Those Pale Stars
Those Pale Stars is a dynamic three-piece acoustic band formed in 2023 and based in Astoria, Oregon. They are made up of Simon Levene (vocals and guitar), Loren Depping (vocals and guitar) and George Arnall (bass guitar).
The band play mainly original, upbeat, thought-provoking music, pulling in a diverse range of influences from British 80s new wave through punk and folk through to songwriters such as John Prine and Paul Simon.
Warrenton/Astoria
Airport Open House & Fly-In Event
📅Saturday, August 22, 2026 | 11:00AM to 4:00PM
📍Astoria Regional Airport, 1110 Flight Lane Drive, Warrenton
Welcome to the 2026 Airport Open House!
The Port of Astoria is excited to announce the third Airport Open House & Fly-In event, scheduled on Saturday, August 22nd, 2026 at the Astoria Regional Airport.
The Airport Open House & Fly-In will showcase a wide array of aviation-related activities, including static aircraft displays, military craft demonstrations, and free introductory flights for youth ages 8–17, hosted by EAA Chapter 1696 based out of the KAST airport.
In addition to the many aviation-related activities, KAST will also host a classic car show, and many activities for kids including a magic show and scavenger hunt. This free, family-friendly event offers an opportunity to explore the airport, meet aviation professionals, and learn more about the important services the airport provides to the region.
Guests of all ages are encouraged to attend and enjoy a day of aircraft displays, educational exhibits, and hands-on activities!
Let’s Go Birding! Fort to Sea Trail Bird Hike
📅Friday, August 21, 2026 | 9:30am-10:30pm
📍Fort to Sea Trailhead – Sunset Beach
This hike will be approximately 2 miles along the Fort to Sea Trail.
Join a park ranger on a guided walk to look for and identify birds. No birding experience is required, and experts are welcome to come share their knowledge.
Binoculars are recommended, and we have a few binoculars to use.
For more information contact Dane Osis 971-338-8030 or [email protected]
Join OPB's "Oregon Field Guide" team
📅Friday, August 21, 2026 | Program at 7 p.m.
📍Liberty Theatre, 1203 Commercial St Astoria, OR
Join OPB's "Oregon Field Guide" team on the north coast for an evening of science stories highlighting our unique region. We’ll screen three short films, including "Underwater Robots," which follows Warrenton students as they design and build underwater robots to accomplish real-world marine exploration and mapping tasks, and "Willapa Bay Sharks," which explores why the migratory broadnose sevengill shark returns to the region every spring.
“These events are more than film screenings,” Burns said. “They’re a way to share that spark of curiosity that drives us to tell stories about the people and places that define who we are and why we love this magical place where we live.”
Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte
📅Friday Aug 21, 2026 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
📍Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts, 588 16th Street, Astoria
Mozart’s Così fan tutte is a sparkling comedy that explores the unpredictability of love and the delightful foolishness of human nature. When confidence, curiosity, and a touch of mischief collide, two young couples find their assumptions gently shaken. With buoyant music and playful wit, the opera invites us to laugh — and to reflect on how firmly any of us can claim to know our own hearts.
Sailboat Rentals
📅Saturday, August 22, 2026 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Drop by Warnock Commons and Model Boat Pond to rent a Radio-Controlled Dragon Force 65 Sailboat and try the basics of sailing.
Sam Johnson Woodworking Shop at the Barbey Maritime Center 2042 Marine Dr, Astoria,
No admission necessary, suggested donation $5 (cash and card accepted)
Astoria Walking Tour
📅Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am
📍Astoria Nordic Heritage Park, 1590 Marine Drive
Step into the layered story of Astoria, where river, sea, and hillside converge, on a guided walking tour through the Downtown Astoria Historic District. Offered weekly by the Lower Columbia Preservation Society, these tours explore the architectural heritage, working waterfront history, and civic ambitions that shaped Oregon’s oldest American settlement.
Tours are point-to-point, beginning at the Astoria Nordic Heritage Park and concluding at the Flavel House Museum, traversing approximately ten blocks over the course of 90 minutes. Along the way, participants encounter landmark commercial buildings, vernacular streetscapes, and stories of industry, immigration, and resilience that continue to define Astoria’s character.
Each tour emphasizes both architectural observation and the broader cultural context of the place inviting participants to see familiar streets with fresh eyes. The tour will finish with enough time to enjoy lunch at the Sunday Market in downtown Astoria, or you'll be in time to join the Liberty Theater tour starting at noon.
The Astoria Sunday Market
📅Every Sunday, All Summer | 10 AM - 3 PM
📍12th Street in Downtown Astoria, Oregon
The Astoria Sunday Market, at the heart of Astoria’s Downtown, combines local arts & crafts, fresh produce & protein, unique prepared foods, music and more in a lively downtown street market atmosphere.
The market features up to 150 vendors offering locally-made products that have been grown, gathered, created, or hand-crafted by the farmers, ranchers, producers, craftspeople and artists featured each week.
With a bustling food court and a rotation of fun regional music, the Astoria Sunday Market is where locals and visitors alike gather each Sunday to shop, eat, connect, and celebrate community. Join us! We look forward to seeing YOU at the Sunday Market!
Cannon Beach
Pancake Breakfast
📅Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
📍Cannon Beach American Legion Post #168, 1216 S Hemlock
Price: $15.00 ($8.00 for ages 10 and under)
Pancakes or french toast, bacon or sausage, scrambled eggs, fruit cup, coffee, tea, orange juice.
Big Band Soul, Funk and Blues: Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle
📅Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 5:00PM
Ben Rice & The PDX Hustle present a free concert in Cannon Beach’s downtown city park.
While Rice started in traditional blues, he’s built upon that foundation with soul, R&B, folk and country to fashion a welcoming front porch where everybody wants to hang out into the wee hours. The electric and high-energy band features a horn section and a thumping rhythm section to get your body moving. “My goal is to reach people in a way that they need to be reached,” Rice says, “to say things they may not get to say or hear things they may not normally get to hear.”
Tide Pools
📅August 13, 14, & 15 @ 7:30 pm
Tide pools are the one of the big reasons people enjoy Oregon’s coast, returning again and again to seek out these freaky forms and amaze themselves, or cause the kids to squeal with glee
One of the questions Oregon Coast Beach Connection gets the most is where to find the tide pools. There are tons in that 362-mile stretch from Brookings up to Astoria. But first, Morris Grover, an expert in Oregon coast marine life, provides some tide pool hunting tips.
“The best time to go tide pooling is one to two hours before the low tide,” Grover said. “That gives you plenty of time to explore before the tide starts coming back in. The tide doesn't stop at low tide - it immediately starts coming back in for the high tide.”
Then there are some things to look out for.
“Tide pooling can be very dangerous, especially in areas that you are not familiar with,” Boothe said.
Grover warned against taking anything away. “As a State Park, we would like to remind people that marine life in the pools can be beautiful and fascinating but it is very fragile and will die quickly if moved or removed,”
“Take only photos, leave only footprints.”
South Seaside “The Cove”
Ecola State Park, Cannon Beach
Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach
Hug Point, 5 miles south of Cannon Beach, temporarily closed.
Long Beach Peninsula, Washington
The Washington State International Kite Festival
📅 The third full week of August
The Washington State International Kite Festival (WSIKF) is a week-long kite celebration and competition held annually during the third full week of August. Starting on Monday and ending on Sunday this Long Beach, Washington State vacation extravaganza boasts skies ablaze with color, high flying action and choreographed movement.
Washington's Kite Festival draws famous kite fliers from all around the world, and tens of thousands of awed spectators, many of which participate in the fun with their own kite flying adventures. Plan ahead and don’t miss out! We have multiple events and activities scheduled everyday.
World Kite Museum
Home of the Washington State International Kite Festival
303 Sid Snyder Drive
PO Box 964
Long Beach, WA 98631
360-642-4020
Peninsula Lions beer garden at Long Beach kite festival
📅August 17 - 26th, 2026
Peninsula Lions Beer Garden is at the International Kite Festival this week! Come down, have an adult beverage and enjoy the kites! The funds raised at the beer garden help to support community and global needs. See you at the Pavillion on the Bolstad approach in Long Beach.
The Dog Days of Summer: Pets of the Peninsula
📅Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 - 4:00PM | August 8through October 31st
📍Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum, 115 SE Lake Street, Ilwaco
The Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco, WA, will be hosting Dog Days of Summer: Pets of the Peninsula, a special exhibition that explores the strong bonds between animals and the human residents of the North Beach Peninsula over time. Not only our beloved pets, but it’s also about the lives of all our special animal neighbors, how they help and influence people, and how we help and influence them in return. CPHM is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 AM to 4 PM. Admission is free thanks to the Port of Ilwaco and our Rising Tide Members.
Columbia Pacific Farmers Market
📅Fridays, 12:00 - 5:00 PM
📍Downtown Long Beach
The market operates in downtown Long Beach May through September on Friday afternoons / early evenings, 12 pm to 5 pm.
At the market, you talk with food purveyors while you purchase your week’s produce, seafood, meat, eggs and dairy, locally-made baked goods, regionally-made packaged foods, flowers and plants, on-site prepared foods, and artisan crafts.
You can sit and listen to music or other entertainment, beat your friend at checkers, chat and dance with your neighbor, watch someone cook, or learn about a community non-profit organization.
Later that evening, you could take in a Feast at one of several local restaurants, where you will eat foods from the market and learn what it is like to farm, fish, or ranch from those who do so. And you can always shop in downtown Long Beach. There isn’t a better way to start your weekend at the beach!
ILWACO Saturday Market
📅Every Saturday from May 2 - September 26, 2026 | 10 am - 4 pm
📍Port of Ilwaco
Welcome!
Take a stroll along our waterfront market at the Port of Ilwaco while enjoying our vendors of art, produce and hand crafted items! We are open every Saturday from May through September.
The Port of Ilwaco is a working port with sport and commercial fishing activities, quaint shops, galleries, and restaurants.
Columbia River Salmon Derby
📅August 21 - August 22
Special Events Coming to a Community Near You
Seaside Art Walk: September 5 (5:00 PM – 7:00 PM) – Local galleries and shops host evening receptions.
DachSand 2026: September 11–13 – The Pacific Northwest dachshund group's annual weekend beach gathering.
The Return of the Saltmakers: September 12–13 – Living history program interpreting historic salt-making efforts.
Seaside SandFest: September 17–20 – Master and amateur sand sculptors compete near the Seaside Turnaround, featuring a new S'moreFest beach party on September 19.
Wheels and Waves Car Show: September 17–20 – Showcasing vehicles from 1979 and older with an all-day show and shine.
Seaside History Walking Tour: September 19 (10:30 AM) – Guided 1-hour historical walk through downtown with the Seaside Museum ($10)
Pink Martini All-Stars: September 5 and September 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM at the Liberty Theatre. Tickets are required for this marquee musical weekend.
The Liberty Gala: September 12, 2026, a special annual celebration hosted by the Liberty Theatre.
Paragon Ragtime Orchestra: September 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM performing "The Clown Princes" silent film/ragtime program.
North Coast Comedy Night: September 26, 2026 at 8:00 PM featuring Pacific Northwest comic Scott Losse at the Liberty Theatre
23rd Annual Cannon Beach Cottage Tour Weekend: Dates: Friday, September 11 – Sunday, September 13, 2026
“Romantic Comedy” at the Coaster Theatre Playhouse: Dates: September 5 – October 18, 2026
Plan Your Stay in Seaside
Looking for even more things to do in Seaside Oregon beyond events? Explore our complete guide to family-friendly Seaside activities including the aquarium, Promenade, Broadway Street, hiking trails, and beach adventures.
With so much happening across Seaside, Gearhart, Astoria, Cannon Beach, and Long Beach, WA, this weekend is the perfect time for a coastal escape. Stay close to the action at Sand & Sea Condos or The Promenade, or relax in one of our Seaside vacation homes.
