Festivals & Events in the Greater Wenatchee Valley
There are festivals, attractions and events in the Wenatchee Valley all year long including the oldest major festival in the state, The Washington State Apple Blossom Festival, but we have more, and four seasons to celebrate!
WINTER
December
- Numerica Festival of Trees – Wenatchee
- Mission Ridge Ski Area Opens
- Christmas on the Mountain – Mission Ridge
- Apple Drop -New Year’s Eve Celebration and Concert @ Pybus
- Christmas Family Fun Day @ WV Museum
- Wings & Wishes – Tree Lighting & more, East Wenatchee
January
- Multicultural Festival @ WV Museum
February
- Rails & Ales Mission Ridge & Badger Mountain Brewery
- People of our Past @ WV Museum
- Wenatchee Heart Breaker 5k, Wenatchee
- Lego Building Championship @ Pybus Market
March
- Trails in Motion Film Festival – Wenatchee
- St. Patrick’s Day Beer & Potato Pub Crawl – Brewers Row
- Washington State Winter Special Olympics
- Dummy Downhill – Mission Ridge
- Night at the Museum – WV Museum
Spring
April
- Ohme Gardens opens
- Rocky Reach Dam Visitor Center Closed until 2021
- Wenatchee Marathon, ½ & 10k, Wenatchee and East Wenatchee
- Horse Lake 1/2 Marathon, 7 mile & 5 mile Trail Runs, Wenatchee
- Easter Egg Hunt, Sunday before Easter, East Wenatchee
- Wenatchee Valley Super Oval Racing Starts, East Wenatchee
- Girls Night Out – Historic Downtown Wenatchee
- Flywheel Investment Conference – Wenatchee Convention Center
- Spring Craft Fair @ Pybus Market
- Earth Day Science Fair @ WV Museum
April/May
- Washington State Apple Blossom Festival – all over!
- Geology and History Tours, WV Museum, May – October
- Wells House Spring Tea, WV Museum – May
May
- Tour de Bloom – downtown criterium/bike race
- Wenatchee Valley Farmers Market opens – Pybus Public Market
- Classy Chassis Parade & Car Show East Wenatchee
- Art Lovers Sunday@ Pybus Public Market
June
- AppleSox Baseball Begins, Wenatchee
- Red Devil Challenge – 50k, 25k & 10k Trail Runs
- Apple Capital Century Bike Ride – Sunrise Rotary
- Evening Farmers Market begins, Pybus Market
- Ale Trail – Historic Downtown Wenatchee
- Wenatchee River Bluegrass Festival – Cashmere
- Eastside Parkway PileUp – East Wenatchee
- Mission: GranDuro – Squilchuck Park
- Geology Tours – start and last through October
- Concerts in the Gardens – dates through July and August at Ohme Gardens
- Downtown Summer Concert Series & Beer Garden – Wenatchee
Summer
July
- Wenatchee Valley Fourth of July celebration at Walla Walla Point Park
- River Run on the Fourth 5k & 10k
- The Big Chill Ciderfest – Cashmere
August
- NCW District Fair – Waterville
- Wenatchee Food & Wine Festival featuring NCW Wine Award, Town Toyota Center
- Hot August Days at Numerica Performing Arts Center
September
- Chelan County Fair – Cashmere
- NCW Dahlia Show @ Pybus Public Market
- DarkSide Festival – Squilchuck Park
- Fiestas Mexicanas – Wenatchee
- Wenatchee Wild Hockey Begins, Town Toyota Center
- Oktoberfest – Wenatchee Brewers Row, Wenatchee
- Environmental Film & Speaker Series @ WV Museum, Sept – April
Fall
October
- Wings & Wheels Festival – East Wenatchee
- Art lovers Sunday at Pybus
- Oktoberfest Trail Runs 10mile, 5mile & kids race
- Fruit Label Swap Meet @ WV Museum
- Make a Difference Day – Wenatchee and East Wenatchee
November
- Pray for Snow Concert – Wenatchee
- Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead @ WV Museum
- Winter Farmers Market through Christmas
- Wenatchee Downtown Holiday Open House & Wine Walk
- Turkey on the Run – fun run – Wenatchee
- Holiday Artisan Fair @ Pybus Public Market