Issaquah Salmon Days Festival
Issaquah, WA · Festival
- When
- October 3–4, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Issaquah, Issaquah Creek · Issaquah · WA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Washington's largest two day festival celebrates the wild salmon run up Issaquah Creek with a parade, hundreds of arts and food vendors, and hatchery tours. The festival dates to the late 1960s and reaches its 57th year in 2026.
The history within reach
- Issaquah Salmon Days Festivalsame spot
Washington's largest two day festival celebrates the wild salmon run up Issaquah Creek with a parade, hundreds of arts and food vendors, and hatchery tours.
Surveyors found coal along this creek in January 1864 and the mining town of Newcastle grew up over the seams running under what is now Cougar Mountain.
Erin Shigaki's mural of two Japanese American children in a wartime incarceration camp went up on this campus in 2020.
Japanese immigrants cleared and farmed the ground between Larsen Lake and Phantom Lake from the early 1900s, growing strawberries, peas and vegetables that shipped out on the Northern Pacific.
Seattle investors led by E.