7 Summer Days in Southern Oregon
In just three short years, my family and I have absolutely fallen in love with Southern Oregon. We have spent our weekends hiking, paddleboarding, swimming in lakes, exploring waterfalls and hot springs, picking peaches, cherries and apples, finding sand dollars by the ocean and seeing amazing
ANNUAL OREGON EVENTS
JANUARY FEBRUARY Jacksonville’s Chinese New Year Celebration: Traditional Chinese New Year Lion Dance Parade MARCH Central Point Easter Eggstravaganza: Depending on when Easter is, this egg hunt has it all! Typically the Saturday before Easter APRIL Pear Blossom Festival: Through it’s 60 year history associated events have been added, including
Central Point EGGSTRAVAGANZA
We have LOVED going to Central Point’s Eggstravangza at Twin Creeks Park year after year Info about the Event: Free Games and Activities, Photos with the Easter Bunny, Food available for purchase, Over 20,000 eggs, EGG HUNT BEGINS AT 11am SHARP! I feel like this Event gets bigger and bigger
Rogue Valley EARTH DAY
Rogue Valley Earth Day is one of our favorite Festivals of the year! We have gone every single year since moving here, and love it. It takes place at Scienceworks Hands-On Museum (Which has FREE admission on Earth Day) You can check out the inside of Scienceworks HERE, if you’ve never
PEAR BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
The Pear Blossom Festival is one of our top 3 favorite events of the year! We’ve now ran the 2 mile Fun Run three years in a row, and I don’t see us ever stopping! Unless we bump it up to the 5K or 10K. Directly after running,
Ashland Airshow
Every year, the Ashland Municipal Airport invites everyone to come celebrate the world of flight by putting on a great air show! We were able to see planes right up close, and have the chance to ride in planes and fly in helicopters (for a price). We saw
Jacksonville’s Chinese New Year Parade
We love Jacksonville’s Chinese New Year Parade! we lucked out and the rain stopped just as we started walking to downtown Jacksonville. The dragons were amazing! I wasn’t sure if my kids would be scared, but they were completely obsessed Especially when this guy came around! After just being
7 Family Friendly Winter Activities in Southern Oregon
1. SLEDDING. Take your pick from several fantastic designated sledding hills throughout Southern Oregon, but our 3 favorites are: Union Creek’s Farewell Bend – We love this spot because it has just the right size hills for young children. Our 6, 4, and 2 year old all went down
Union Creek Sledding
we went to Union Creek for our annual sledding excursion!Union Creek is where we typically go because 1. Our car does not have 4 Wheel Drive 2. Easy easy parking 3. small sledding hills for the kids also, this sledding area is right up the street from Beckie’s Cafe which
Christmas Tree Hunt
We headed out towards Brown Mountain last weekend in search for the perfect Christmas tree. this was our very first time cutting down our own Christmas Tree, and now I know that I truly need to buy snow clothes for everyone where are some of your favorite places