• 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 the Fremont Bridge location, […]

    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 Sunday of the year. […]

    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 of the garden's pavilions. […]

    $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 the story's old-fashioned magic. […]

  • 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 one that sends audiences […]

  • 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 3 to 20. The […]

    Free
  • Christmas Ship Grand Finale Bonfire at Gas Works Park

    Gas Works Park 2101 N Northlake Way, Seattle, WA, United States

    The Christmas Ship season ends on Lake Union, and the last shoreline concert of the year lands at Gas Works Park. The final sailing's follow boats gather around the ship […]

    Free
  • Free Thursday Nights at Tacoma Art Museum

    Tacoma Art Museum 1701 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA, United States

    Tacoma Art Museum stays open until 8 p.m. on Thursdays, and admission is free from 5 o'clock on. That's three hours to see Northwest and Western art in the Haub […]

    Free
  • 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 cars. Morning departures are […]

    $25 – $35
  • The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp

    Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center 20800 Marine Dr, Stanwood, WA, United States

    For its 30th season, the Northwest's big Christmas light festival at Warm Beach Camp, north of Marysville near Stanwood, becomes mainly a walking event. Guests stroll at their own pace […]

    $16 – $35
  • University District Farmers Market

    University Way NE (the Ave) University Way NE between NE 50th St & NE 52nd St, Seattle, WA, United States

    Every Saturday, year-round, farmers take over University Way NE between 50th and 52nd, two blocks from the U District light rail station. Winter is the season for squash, roots, apples […]

    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 farms. In winter the […]

    Free