Events Calendar

There’s almost always something going on in Seaside. From art walks and wine walks to the world’s largest beach volleyball tournaments and relay races… plan your trip around your favorite events or use this calendar to join in the fun during your stay.

Bust Broom with the North Coast Land Conservancy

Join staff and volunteers of North Coast Land Conservancy on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 to remove the remaining Scotch broom from the steep dune slopes at Reed Ranch Habitat Reserve in Warrenton. Click here for more details about this stewardship day and about busting broom on your own property during May—“Broom-Busting Month” on the OregonFind OUT MORE

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Circle Creek Volunteer Stewardship Day

Impatiens glandulifera—an invasive plant better known as policeman’s helmet—is becoming a scourge in the Necanicum River watershed. Help arrest this public enemy at Circle Creek Habitat Reserve at a volunteer stewardship day on Saturday June 11, 2016, from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Native to Asia, policeman’s helmet is named for the plant’s white, pink or purpleFind OUT MORE

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Dune Geology Nature Walk

Join North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) board member Tom Horning for a walk at Lewis and Clark National Historical Park’s Yeon Property near Sunset Beach. NCLC was honored to play a role in conserving this 100-acre property, which includes nearly a mile of oceanfront. The walk will be on fairly well-maintained trail surfaces beneath anFind OUT MORE

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Circle Creek Discovered Nature Walk

Join naturalist and photographer Neal Maine for a morning dedicated to slowing down and observing the dynamic processes at work in the Sitka spruce swamp accessed from the Circle Creek Trail. Rather than focusing on the names of the plants and animals, participants will attempt to see the plants and animals with fresh eyes, leadingFind OUT MORE

Coastal Prairie Nature Walk

Join North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) Stewardship Director Melissa Reich for a walk highlighting some of the innovative research and stewardship strategies NCLC is exploring in and the efforts to protect the unique prairie ecosystem of the Clatsop plains. NCLC has been very active for more than two decades in conserving and rehabilitating the native coastal prairieFind OUT MORE

Ecola Creek Forest Walk

Join naturalist Mike Patterson for a walk in Ecola Creek Forest Reserve. North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) was excited to help the City of Cannon Beach acquire the initial 120 acres of the ECFR back in 1999, which was expanded to a total of 1040 acres by the citizens of Cannon Beach in 2009. The groupFind OUT MORE

Clear Lake Geology Walk

When North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) acquired Clear Lake in 2013, it was the last undeveloped interdunal lake on the Warrenton peninsula outside of Fort Stevens State Park to be conserved. Join Tom Horning on an exploration of this hidden gem, tucked away between Ridge Road and downtown Warrenton, as he speculates about how theFind OUT MORE

Fort to Sea and Kwis Kwis Guided Hike

The Fort to Sea Trail leads southwest from Fort Clatsop to Sunset Beach, approximating the route members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition followed to reach their salt-making operations near present-day Seaside. This guided hike will begin off US Hwyy 101, in the middle of the Fort to Sea Trail (click here for map), andFind OUT MORE

Purple Loosestrife Weed Pull

Spend a day at beautiful Wolf Bay Habitat Reserve near Svensen and help rid the marsh of the purple menace with the North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC). Invasive purple loosestrife grows along the lower Columbia and spreads easily, threatening to overwhelm the diverse wetland ecology of this area and crowding out native plants such asFind OUT MORE

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Cape Falcon Guided Hike

With mountain summits rising above 3,000 feet as close as a mile from the shoreline, there is a region that North Coast Land Conservancy (NCLC) calls the Coastal Edge. Located between Tillamook Head and Nehalem Bay, the area is an unusually compressed, biogeographically concentrated ecosystem, unlike that anywhere else on the Oregon Coast. Part of theFind OUT MORE