Raw States
Hood River Tree Lighting & Street Festival
Hood River, OR · Holiday
- When
- December 4, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Hood River, 2nd and Cascade Ave. · Hood River · OR
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A community holiday tree lighting and street festival in downtown Hood River. Streets close to vehicles for an evening of lights, music, food, vendors and shopping at local stores, with Santa and Mrs. Claus on hand for photos. Local businesses also join in a window decorating contest.
The history within reach
Samuel Lancaster built it as a scenic road first and a route second, curving the alignment to reveal waterfalls and laying dry-stone walls with Italian masons.
- Wild19 mi
The Bridge of the Gods over the Columbia is the end of the road for a woman who has walked eleven hundred miles of the Pacific Crest Trail to grieve her mother and put herself back together, the film's last image, and the real bridge PCT hikers cross out of Oregon into Washington.
- Bonneville Dam21 mi
The first federal dam on the Columbia, built by the New Deal and advertised with songs Woody Guthrie was paid $266 to write in a month.
- Celilo Falls drowned26 mi
People had fished this stretch of rapids for salmon for around 11,000 years, the longest continuously inhabited site in North America.
Built by Works Progress Administration crews at 6,000 feet, with hand-forged ironwork and furniture made from old power poles and worn-out uniforms.