Over 200 Wild Mushroom Varieties on Display + Vendors + Food & Brew + Workshops & Lectures + ID Hikes
The Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, November 4th & 5th (the first full weekend of November) in Brookings, Oregon, and runs from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm each day.
ATTENTION: The 2023 festival has expanded! The huge mushroom display and vendors hall is once again at the Salmon Run Event Center (99040 South Bank Chetco River Road, just 3.5 miles east of Brookings, Oregon), while the lectures and workshops will take place in town at the Chetco Grange Community Center (97895 Shopping Center Avenue, just 10 minutes from Salmon Run). The Pacific Coast Trolley will be running between the two venues throughout the festival.
One of the highlights of the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival is the main display, with over 200+ varieties of local, wild mushrooms that are collected and identified for festival goers. A variety of mushroom experts - both regional and national - will be offering mushroom-related workshops and presentations, tickets for which are available in advance and at the door. Topics for the workshops will include identifying, harvesting, cooking with, creating medicinal tinctures with, eating, and preserving wild mushrooms. Those speakers who are also authors will be available to sell and/or sign books. Mushroom identification hikes will also take place throughout the 2-day festival, with multiple hikes scheduled each day.
Admission to the display & vendors hall (at the Salmon Run Event Center) is just $5.00 at the door (and is good for either or both days); kids 12 and under get in FREE. (PLUS each $5.00 Admission earns you a free Raffle Ticket to use toward some great prizes!)
If you want to attend one of our workshops or hear a lecture from one of our visiting experts (at the Chetco Grange Community Center in town), or join a mushroom identification hike, TICKETS CAN BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCED starting Tuesday, September 5th, or at the door the day of (note: general admission is included in the price of the lectures, workshops, and hikes). We recommend you purchase in advance, as many of our lectures and workshops are popular and sell out fast!
IMPORTANT TIP FOR FESTIVAL GOERS:
The Salmon Run venue is a few miles outside of town, and WiFi access is very limited, so please consider bringing cash (in case the credit card readers go down during the festival...)