Pedalpalooza Bike Summer Kickoff Ride 

• When: Saturday, June 1 at 3 pm
• Where: Starts in one of Portland’s neighborhood parks — To Be Announced
• What: Velophiles of all ages kick off the three-month-long bike festival with a huge, free group ride. The route varies each year, but it typically starts and ends at a city park. 

Thousands show up, many on their weirdest rigs (tall bikes, tandem bikes, mini bikes) and in their most festive gear. Don’t miss it — rent a bike ahead of time at Everybody’s Bike Rentals only three blocks from the Portland Eco House.

Black Liberation Ride

• When: June — exact date To Be Announced
• Where: TBA too
• What: As part of the Pedalpalooza Bike Summer celebration, this is a fun, all-ages, no-drop ride exclusively for Blacks and other people of color to take up space on the streets, gather in community, and celebrate. 

Rent a bike ahead of time at Everybody’s Bike Rentals only three blocks from the Portland Eco House.

Pride Ride

• When: June 1, 4pm
• Where: Downtown Portland, Director’s Park, 815 SW Park Avenue
• What: A slow, stately 1.5-mile parade that flows past spots from Portland’s rich 2SLGBTQIA+ history. 

Poison Waters will be leading this family-friendly ride. All Wheels Welcome! The parade will end at the Cart Blocks Food Cart Pod with a dance party featuring some surprise guests. Bring the bio-degradable glitter and get ready to shine!

East Side First Friday

• When: June 7, July 5, and August 2, 5 – 9pm, and the First Friday of all other months all year
• Where: East Side Arts District (see map)
• Offering a gateway into Portland’s thriving arts culture, First Friday PDX includes more than 23 independent galleries, shops, and studios, as well as a street exhibition from April to October.

The self-guided tour is free and open to locals and visitors!

Portlland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade

• When: June 8, 10am – 12pm
• Where: Route starts by running through the Memorial Coliseum and enters the street on Broadway. It travels along Weidler to MLK Jr. Blvd, where it turns right and travels down MLK Jr. Blvd to Lloyd Blvd. The parade turns left on Lloyd Blvd, and ends at 16th and Multnomah, near the Lloyd Center.
• What: A cherished 107 year-old tradition of the Portland Rose Festival that draws hundreds of thousands of cheering viewers.

Village Building Convergence 2024

• When: June 15 – 22
• Where: SE Portland and around town
• What: This annual placemaking event has been facilitated by the City Repair Project for the past 20+ years. This year’s theme is “Summer of Change,” with eight days of workshops, placemaking, presentations, and community building. 

VBC 2024 offers opportunities to join in daytime activities ranging from intersection painting and natural building to permaculture, rewilding, and social forestry. Each evening participants gather as a community for connection, dinner, entertainment, and hearing from leading speakers. 

The VBC is open to everyone, and families with children are welcome. No experience is necessary for coming to learn, collaborate, and contribute to the building of resilient and thriving communities.

Portland Sunday Parkways

• When: June 16, 11am – 4pm 
• Where: Can start at NE 37th Avenue and Alberta Court 
• What: This is a self-guided ride along a route designed to highlight the network of neighborhood greenways and other infrastructure, parks, and community resources.

Circulation slows in areas along the route and at the featured parks for vendor marketplaces, community booths, free family-friendly activities, and live entertainment.

Last Thursday

• When: On the Last Thursdays of the summer months, June 27, July 25, and August 29, 6 – 9 PM. 
• Where: NE Alberta Street from NE 15th Avenue to NE 30th Avenue
• What: Last Thursday is a community-grown event that showcases Portland’s vibrant culture and community spirit.

On this evening, Alberta Street is closed to traffic, and all the galleries on the street hold their opening parties, with restaurants and food carts offering open-air dining, and performance venues and bars often hosting live music and performances. Free for all artists and art vendors, musicians, performers and visitors taking to the street.

World Naked Bike Ride

• When: To Be Announced, Probably July or August
• Where: TBA as well
• What: This Pedalpalooza Bike Summer ride is Portland’s essential Big One of the year not to miss. Each year 10,000 and more people come out in force to have fun taking over the city in all manner of colorful dress and undress.

Originating as a fellowship protest ride in tandem with naked rides in major cities worldwide against dependence on oil and cyclists’ vulnerability to cars, the ride is also a celebration of bodies. 

You’ll see everything from full nudity to body paint to swimsuits to regular clothing. There other nude-friendly Pedalpalooza rides, but this is the big one, with a dance party at the end.

Rent a bike ahead of time at Everybody’s Bike Rentals only three blocks from the Portland Eco House.

Pedalpalooza Bike Play

• When: July, TBA
• Where TBA
• What: For 15 years, the Working Theatre Collective has written and performed a play that unfolds over the course of a bike ride, complete with original music and choreographed dance numbers. The audience (that’s you) pedals from scene to scene.

Reserve rental bikes ahead of time from Everybody’s Bike Rentals just three blocks from the Portland Eco House.

NW Marine Art Works’ Open Studios

• When: July 1 & 2, 10am – 4pm
• Where:  2516 NW 29th Avenue
• What: More than 50 of Portland’s best artists at the sprawling NW Marine Art Works’ 2-acre campus will open their studio doors inside the 10 enormous buildings and welcome guests into their spaces to view them at work and interact with them.

All kinds of art media are here — from jewelry and apparel to paintings and printmaking, ceramics, photography, sculpture, accessories and housewares. Live music and food and drink will also be featured as part of the festivities. 

Portland Craft Beer Festival

• When: July 4 – 6, Noon–10 pm
• Where: Elizabeth Caruthers Park, 3508 S Moody Avenue
• What: Helping to kick off Oregon Craft Beer Month, the Portland Craft Beer Festival brings a huge outdoor party to Elizabeth Caruthers Park, along with a huge selection of local beers, ciders and wine, originating from Portland, Oregon breweries. 

Only beers, plus ciders and wine crafted within the city limits of Portland are featured at the PCBF, which stands it apart from other beer festivals.

Waterfront Blues Festival

• When: July 4 – 7
• Where: Downtown Portland’s Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park
• What: On four stages at the height of summer and within eight acres of the park, blues, rock, and bluegrass/country acts from around the country converge. This year’s festival is headlined by Ben Harper.

Mississippi Street Fair

• When: Saturday, July 13
• Where: N Mississippi Avenue between N Fremont & Skidmore Streets
• What: the long stretch of North Mississippi Avenue closes down for Portland’s largest street fair, unfolding a day of fun with hundreds of vendors, shopping, dining, and music on three different stages.

Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic

• When: July 13 – 14
• Where: Starts in Seattle, ends in Portland
• What: Thousands of cyclists show up for the one- or two-day, 206-mile ride with plenty of support stations along the way. At the end, riders pick up beer garden beverages and lifetime bragging rights. The $180–210 registration fee includes baggage transport. 

Recuperate from your ride at the quiet, peaceful Portland Eco House.

44th Cathedral Park Jazz Festival

• When: Saturday, July 19 –  21
• Where: Cathedral Park under the historic St Johns Bridge in North Portland
• What: A totally free festival of jazz, featuring local jazz, blues, soul, and Latin artists.
• CPJF is the longest-running free annual jazz festival west of the Mississippi – and Portland’s longest-running annual community event. There is no admission charge.

Portland Pride Waterfront Festival

• When: Saturday, July 20, 12pm – 8pm & Sunday, July 21, 11:30am – 6pm
• Where: Oregon Governor Tom McCall Waterfront Park
• What: While much of the rest of the country seems to think it’s okay to abuse and  restrict others for doing what they wish with their own bodies, what clothes they wear, and loving who they want to love, the Portland Pride Festival and Parade is a time for the LBGTQ+ community to come out in self-love, acceptance and pride.

Food, drinks, live music and nonprofit information booths are arrayed along the park with information about local LGBTQ+ groups and community activities.

Portland Pride Parade

• When: Sunday, July 21, 11am
• Where: Begins at the North Park Blocks and ends on Naito Pkwy at the Festival site at the park.
• What: LGBTQ+ folk and friends and family let their freak flags fly by the thousands in this parade. 

Expect loud, rambunctious super-high energy from people of all colors and backgrounds making themselves visible to each other so that they know they aren’t alone in who they are, while seen by the larger community to make sure they aren’t skirted off to the sidelines and shadows of the world.

Vanport Jazz Festival

• When: August 2 – 3
• Where: Colwood Golf Center, 7313 NE Columbia Blvd.
• What: A  jazz festival in honor of those musicians who moved to Oregon for work and filled the air with art.

This year’s lineup includes Stokley, Jarrod Lawson, Najee, Patrice Rushen, Richard Elliot & Rick Braun, Eric Darius and Esperanza Spalding..

Pickathon

• When: August 3 – 6
• Where: Pendarvis Farm, Happy Valley, just outside Portland
• What: This is the quintessential Portland laid-back annual four-day campout and music festival.

The festival hosts notable artists from a wide mix of genres including indie, rock, rap, folk, jazz, rhythm and blues, and bluegrass.

25th Anniversary PDX Adult Soapbox Derby

• When: Saturday, August 17
• Where: .Mt. Tabor Park
• What: All manner of motorless vehicles scream or struggle down the long, winding road of Portland’s own extinction volcano to the delight of spectators lining either side. Winners are not those who get down to the bottom the fastest, but the most creatively and hilariously.

Kenton Street Fair

• When: Sunday, Aug. 18
• Where: N. Denver Avenue, 97217
• What: The Kenton Neighborhood will be drawing the throngs with its street fair hosting multiple live music stages, 80+ vendors, dining options, and plenty of great businesses on the block.

The Providence Hood and Portland To Coast Relay

• When: August 23 – 24
• Where: From Mount Hood to the Oregon Coast
• What: The Providence Hood and Portland To Coast Relay is the most popular and largest running and walking relay race in the world, annually drawing participants from over 40 countries and all 50 states. 

Known as the Mother of All Relays, the event takes 8 to 12 member relay teams 198 miles or 128 miles (from Portland) from the iconic top of Mount Hood to the beaches of the Pacific Ocean. The event has sold-out for 36 straight years and on lottery opening day for 31 consecutive years!

Recuperate from your run or walk at the quiet, peaceful Portland Eco House.

Whether you join these eco-conscious events or prefer a peaceful retreat, reserve a stay at Portland Eco House to experience the best of Portland’s summer.