• Holiday Express at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center

    Oregon Rail Heritage Center 2250 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Heritage rail cars leave the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in the Central Eastside for a short holiday excursion, with Santa and his elves working the heated…

    $25 – $35
  • Oregon Ballet Theatre: George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker

    Keller Auditorium 222 SW Clay St, Portland, OR, United States

    Oregon Ballet Theatre's Balanchine Nutcracker is Portland's big-stage holiday ballet, with Tchaikovsky's score played live by the OBT Orchestra at the Keller Auditorium. Marie's trip to…

  • Portland Bazaar Holiday Market

    Portland Bazaar (Slabtown) 1715 NW 17th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    A curated maker market that runs across three December weekends in Northwest Portland, with more than 200 makers rotating through over the season. Because the lineup…

    Free
  • Seattle Christmas Bird Count

    Seattle count circle (routes across the city; at-home option) Seattle (15-mile circle centered downtown), Seattle, WA, United States

    Birds Connect Seattle, the former Seattle Audubon, has run the city's piece of North America's longest-running community science survey for more than 95 years. About 300…

    Free
  • Ballard Farmers Market

    Ballard Avenue NW (22nd Ave NW to 20th Ave NW) Ballard Ave NW & 22nd Ave NW, Seattle, WA, United States

    Seattle's first year-round neighborhood farmers market has filled the cobblestone stretch of Ballard Avenue NW every Sunday since 2000, and the produce comes only from Washington…

    Free
  • West Seattle Farmers Market

    West Seattle Junction California Ave SW & SW Alaska St, Seattle, WA, United States

    In the heart of the Junction at California and Alaska, West Seattle's market runs every Sunday morning through the winter, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Think…

    Free
  • Fremont Sunday Market

    Fremont Sunday Market (Fremont Bridge location) 3401 Evanston Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Fremont's European-style street market has run for more than 35 years, and it doesn't take the winter off. From November on it moves under cover at…

    Free
  • Capitol Hill Farmers Market

    E Barbara Bailey Way E Denny Way between Broadway & 10th Ave E, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Denny Way entrance to Capitol Hill Station opens straight onto this market, which sets up on E Barbara Bailey Way between Broadway and 10th every…

    Free
  • Garden Tea Tastings at Lan Su Chinese Garden

    Lan Su Chinese Garden 239 NW Everett St, Portland, OR, United States

    A tea master from Lan Su's Yun Shui Teahouse pours three seasonal Chinese and Taiwanese teas for a group of no more than eight, in one…

    $37 – $56
  • Tacoma City Ballet: The Nutcracker

    Pantages Theater 901 Broadway, Tacoma, WA, United States

    Tacoma City Ballet has danced The Nutcracker for 71 years, and its home is the 1918 Pantages Theater on Broadway, an ornate vaudeville house that suits…

  • Seattle Symphony: Handel’s Messiah

    Benaroya Hall, S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium 200 University St, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Seattle Symphony's annual Messiah brings the Seattle Symphony Chorale, a quartet of vocal soloists and Benaroya Hall's Watjen Concert Organ together for Handel's oratorio, the…

  • Christmas Ships Parade

    Willamette and Columbia rivers (riverfront parks and restaurants) Portland, OR, United States

    Volunteer skippers have strung their boats with lights and cruised the rivers every December for about seven decades, and the fleets sail most nights from December…

    Free