Seattle Center's South Fountain Lawn turns into a European-style Christmas village for five weeks, with wooden stalls from local and European vendors, a carousel, a walk-through tree, daily snow showers and Santa visits. The heated Alpen Haus inside Fisher Pavilion has tables for warming up with food and festive drinks. Tickets are timed and cheapest […]
The Oregon Zoo trades daytime animal-watching for a nighttime walk through grounds wrapped in light displays, from the main paths to the hillside trees. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. each night, with timed tickets sold online in advance and priced by date, so the Value Nights in late November, early December and January 3 are […]
Renegade, which runs craft fairs in five cities, brings a holiday edition to Magnuson Park's Hangar 30 with more than 180 curated artists and makers. Gift hunters will find work […]
From late October into early December, chum salmon, and a few coho, push up Piper's Creek in Carkeek Park to spawn, right inside city limits. The annual celebration on the […]
Seattle sketch troupe The Habit settles the eternal argument about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie by turning it into a holiday stage parody. Expect 1980s jokes, soft-rock songs, […]
A Saturday market on NE Hancock between 44th and 45th in Northeast Portland's Hollywood district. It keeps its weekly schedule right up to December 19, which makes it one of […]
Beaverton's Saturday market wraps its main season on November 21, filling the west lot of the Beaverton City Library on SW Hall Boulevard between 3rd and 5th. The last three […]
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 […]
The Edmonds Historical Museum's street market moves into holiday mode on six Saturdays in November and December, filling 5th Avenue North and Bell Street just outside the old Carnegie library […]
Tacoma's only year-round farmers market sets up every Saturday in the Proctor District through Dec. 19. Shoppers come from across the city for local vegetables and flowers, meat and seafood, […]
Portland Farmers Market's flagship keeps its Saturday rhythm all winter in the South Park Blocks on the Portland State campus. The winter market is smaller than the summer crush, which […]
EarthCorps and the Green Redmond Partnership spend a Saturday morning planting trees and shrubs and spreading mulch at Juel Park, 38 acres in the Sammamish Valley. The valley's fertile bottomland […]
