Oregon Metro hosts Salmon Homecoming
Type: In Person
Category: Learn
Solution Areas: Education
Regions: Portland Metro Area
October 19–October 20, 202411:00 am – 4:00 pm
Cost:Free event. Parking is $5 or covered by an annual parking pass.
Portland Indigenous Marketplace artists and entrepreneurs are joining Salmon Homecoming. Limited cell service will not allow for credit/debit card transactions; please bring cash.
Oxbow Regional Park
3010 SE Oxbow Pkwy
Gresham,Oregon
97080
About the event
Join us in honoring salmon with two days of fun, food and cultural connections along the Sandy River. View fall Chinook returning to one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier glacier-fed wild and scenic rivers. Enjoy plant walks, arts and crafts, storytelling, Native games, vendors, traditional baked salmon samples, educational activities and more!
No registration is required. All activities are held both days unless otherwise noted.
Event runs 11 am to 4 pm both Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20.
Daily schedule of events
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (All day)
Food, Indigenous Marketplace vendors, tabling organizations, games, crafts, salmon samples
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (All day)
Salmon viewing at Coho shelter
11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Drumming at Alder shelter
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Cultural dancing
12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Storytelling at Alder shelter
1 p.m. to 1:55 p.m. (Sunday only)
Plant walks at Alder shelter
2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. (Saturday only)
Storytelling at Alder shelter
