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Family Fun for Everyone!!!

FUN THINGS TO DO:
 
Enjoy the amusement rides, horse rentals, go-carts, video arcades, and bumper cars. Shop at the numerous art galleries, antique shops and antique malls, kite shops, T-shirt & sweatshirt shops, book stores, how many  flavors? of ice cream, espresso stands. Take in a movie, go bowling, swimming at the pools (NOT IN THE OCEAN, PLEASE), salmon, sturgeon, halibut, albacore tuna, and bottom fishing on the Pacific Ocean or the Columbia River. Visit one of several museums, Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center, Ilwaco Heritage Museum, World Kite Museum and Hall of Fame, Cranberry Museum, Marsh's Free Museum, Willapa Bay Interprative Center in Nahcotta, and the entire town of Oysterville (which is on the National Register of Historic Places). Play golf at one of two courses, Peninsula Golf Course and Surfside Golf Course, or miniature golf at BooBoo's Putt Putt behind 'Stormin' Norman's Kite Shop.  Launch your own boat in Chinook, Ilwaco (both on the Columbia River) or Nahcotta (on Willapa Bay).

FUN THINGS FOR FREE:

Hike one of our ten official hiking trails - including the new, paved Discovery Trail that meanders through the dunes from Seaview to north Long Beach(also open for bicycles, roller blades and skateboards), play tennis in Ilwaco, Seaview, or Long Beach, walk or run our 28 miles of sandy beach, beachcomb, bicycle, canoe or kayak, fly a kite, go wildlife watching - we have Bald Eagles, Great Blue Heron, gulls, numerous shorebirds, Elk, waterfoul, River Otters, Pelicans, Seals and Sea Lions, Black Bears and Gray Whales.  Visit our two historic lighthouses - one is even open for tours in the summer.  Wander the docks at Ilwaco's 900 slip marina - if you come on Saturdays during the summer you'll find a small festival/market underway.  Visit "Waikiki Beach" to swim or experience the waves crashing into the rocks below the lighthouse.  Window shop in downtown Long Beach to your hearts content!

 

LONG BEACH PENINSULA 2008 CALENDER OF EVENTS:
 
JANUARY 19-20 -Windless Kite Festival
FEBRUARY 9-ILWACO-Valentine's Day Dance
FEBRUARY 9-10 -LONG BEACH-Asian New Year Kite Event
MARCH - PENINSULA - Whale Watching on the Coast
MARCH 14-16 - Peninsula Quilt Guild Show
MAR 28-30- LONG BEACH - Bluegrass Festival
APRIL 3-6-LONG BEACH - Peninsula Arts Assn. Show
APR 26 - ILWACO - Black Lake fishing derby
MAY 3-4 Loyalty Day Parade & 'Blessing of the Fleet'
MAY-SEPT. - ILWACO - Saturday Market at the port
MAY 1 - ILWACO - Halibut/Sturgeon Fishing Opens
MAY 13-15 -ILWACO - Nautical Renaissance
MAY 17 - LONG BEACH - Surf Perch Derby
MAY 24-26 - PENINSULA - World's Longest Garage Sale
JUNE 6-9 -ILWACO - Nautical Renaissance
JUNE 21- LONG BEACH -31st Beach to Chowder Run/Walk
JUNE 21 - LONG BEACH -2nd Annual Doggie Olympics
JUNE 21-22-OCEAN PARK - 27th Annual Garlic Festival
JUNE 27-28 - ILWACO - Relay for Life
JUNE 28 - PENINSULA -Music in the Gardens
JULY - ILWACO-Salmon Fishing Season, TBA
JULY 4 - LONG BEACH - FREE Fireworks on the beach
                OCEAN PARK - 4th of July Parade
JULY 5 - ILWACO - Free Fireworks at the Port
JULY 19-20-ILWACO - Railroad Days-Heritage Museum
JULY 25-26 - LONG BEACH - 24th Annual SandSations - sandcastle building contest
JULY 26-27- LONG BEACH - 63rd NPRA Sanctioned Rodeo
AUGUST 16 - ILWACO - Waterfront Dance & Barbeque
AUG 17 - OYSTERVILLE - Jazz & Oysters
AUG. 18-24 - LONG BEACH - 27th Annual WA State International Kite Festival
SEPT. 5 - ILWACO - Slow Drag at the Port
SEPT. 6 -7- OCEAN PARK - Rod Run to the End of the World
SEPT 20 - ILWACO Baker Bay Kayak/Canoe Race
OCT. 10-13 - LONG BEACH - Peninsula Arts Assoc. Show
OCT. 11-12 - LONG BEACH - One Sky, One World Kite Carnival
OCT. 10-12 - ILWACO - 87th Cranberrian Fair
OCT. 17-19 - PENINSULA - Water Music Festival XXIV
OCT 15-NOV 15 - PENINSULA-Wild Mushroom Festival
NOV. 7-9 - ILWACO - Lewis & Clark 'Ocian in View' Programs
NOV 14-16 - LONG BEACH - Cribbage Tournament
NOV. 28-30- LONG BEACH - Holidays at the Beach
DEC.6 - ILWACO - Annual Lighted Boat Parade & Crab Pot Christmas Tree
DEC. 13-14 - PENINSULA - Bed & Breakfast Holiday Open House
DEC. 14 - LONG BEACH - Tuba Christmas
DEC. 31 - LONG BEACH - Fireworks at Midnight
 
 
 

For Additional Information on upcoming events and festivals, visit the Long Beach Visitor's Bureau website at: http://www.funbeach.com