7th Annual Englewood Forest Festival
August 9, 2025 from 10 am to 4 pm in Englewood Park, Salem, Oregon
The Englewood Forest Festival celebrates the arts, nature, and community in a free family-friendly event sharing the diverse talents of local artists, musicians, performers, and environmental nonprofits.
The free festival provides music and entertainment on two stages and dozens of free family-friendly activities for all ages to learn more about the Willamette Valley environment. Visitors attend the festival from Salem, the Mid-Willamette Valley, Washington, and California.
The event is located in historic Englewood Park, the first park purchased by the City of Salem. The park has hundreds of mature trees including a 7-acre native remnant forest of Oregon white oak and Douglas fir trees. It is a popular summer gathering place and provides a wonderful setting for the festival. The park contains a large native pollinator garden, a splash pool, 2 playgrounds, a horseshoe game, benches, and picnic tables, perfect for an August day.
Watch a video of the 2022 festival here. And our 2023 festival can be seen here.
The 2025 Englewood Forest Festival is sponsored in part by a grant from the City of Salem Transient Occupancy Tax, Northeast Neighbors Neighborhood Assoc. (NEN), with support from Uptown Music, N2 Community Partnership Team, Storyteller for Good, Heritage Seedlings, Enlace Cross-Cultural Development, our neighborhood, and wonderful community volunteers.
THANK YOU!
2024 Activities and Workshops
Learn about owls, pollinators, native plants, make a bird feeder, paint rocks, write a poem, race a zucchini, and more.
Wildflower Seed Balls
Mix soil, clay, and wildflower seeds, and water to create a seed ball to take home. Then, make a small wildflower garden in your yard to help support native pollinators.