Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival

Woodburn, OR

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Driver will be Gordon Petty.

The standard fee is $45 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

Be ready to take in all of the vibrant colors and stroll through 40 acres of stunning beauty.

There is plenty to see and do. Take a leisurely, cushioned ride on the Tulip Field Ride, enjoy a glass of one of our estate-grown wines or a glass of local beer and cider. Visit the designated you-pick area for fresh flowers, or the Tulip Market and the Field Greenhouse Tent to pre-order bulbs for fall shipment. Peruse the gift shop that offers merchandise for all to enjoy. Hungry? Stop by The Feedshack, Fat Schlag’s, or the Hotshot Bar-B-Q.

Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. 

Farm Fest & Plowing Competition

McMinnville, OR

Saturday, May 3, 2025

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Driver will be Gail Brown.

The standard fee is $30 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

Experience a rare opportunity to watch old-time farming history. This event includes the Oregon Draft Horse Breeders Association annual plowing competition. The competition has 20 plus teams of draft horses and mules making this the largest competition of its kind on the West Coast.

Tour the Yamhill County Heritage Center complex, which features over 40,000 square feet of displays showcasing the area’s agricultural history, including a collection of more than 100 antique tractors, horse-drawn equipment and buggies, autos from the early 1900s, and fire-fighting equipment from the late 1890s. Visit the original 1880’s Hutchcroft one-room schoolhouse, working blacksmith and sawmill operations, a general store, logging and dairy displays, and displays of many more artifacts from the 1800s and early 1900s.

Big Creek Reservoir Fishing Trip

Newport, OR

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

9:30 AM - 1:00 PM

The standard fee is $15 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

Driver will be Gordon Petty.

Do you enjoy fishing? If so, please join the 60+ Activity Center and the Longview Fishing Club at Big Creek Reservoir. The Longview Fishing Club is a small organization that comes together to fish and have fun. In addition, they volunteer with the ODFW, help with beach and river cleanups and assist with various programs helping to keep our fish population viable, as well as a myriad of other activities.

The Club will provide fishing poles for this catch and release event. You must have your own one-day fishing license, which may be obtained at various locations, including Wal-Mart and Big 5.

Schreiner's Iris Gardens & Adelman Peony Gardens

Salem, OR

Wednesday, May 22, 2025

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Driver will be Gail Brown.

The standard fee is $30 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

Spring is here! Join us as we head to Salem for a combined trip to enjoy the beautiful peonies at Adelman Peony Gardens and the finest irises in the world at Schreiner’s Iris Gardens.

Adelman Peony Gardens’ passion for Peonies began when Carol Adelman was a young girl, when she admired her neighbor’s peonies from across the street. Throughout the years her love for peonies grew which resulted in her planting a few of her own. What started out as a hobby, soon became a commitment to grow the highest quality true to name peony roots. Adelman Peony Gardens is proud to be known around the world for having excellent quality peonies and commitment to perfection. Immerse yourself into peony paradise. With 30 acres of peony fields and a 2 acre display garden to stroll through, there is something for everyone.

The Schreiner’s have dedicated three generations and more for breeding and growing the finest Irises in the world. Their growing fields are constantly monitored during the season to ensure you receive top quality plants. With just over 100 acres of bearded iris being cultivated, you are sure to find the perfect one to add to your garden.

Lunch will be on your own.

Oregon Coastal Excursion

Rockaway Beach, OR

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Driver will be Gordon Petty.

The standard fee is $55 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

This 90-minute round-trip excursion meanders by Tillamook Bay, the Pacific Ocean, Nehalem Bay, and through the Nehalem River Valley, and passes by many lakes and gorgeous panoramic views that can only be seen by rail. The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad is a registered non-profit museum organization. They are an all-volunteer organization that operates over the former Southern Pacific and Port of Tillamook Bay Railroads. They operate regularly scheduled trains between Garibaldi and Rockaway Beach in the summer months.

Lebanon Strawberry Festival

Lebanon, OR

Saturday, June 7, 2025

8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Driver will be Gail Brown.

The standard fee is $35 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

The Strawberry Festival’s Grand Parade is one of the major highlights of the festival, dating back to the Festival’s beginning in 1909. The Parade showcases over 130 entries. Spectators can expect around two hours of entertainment with everything from dance groups, marching bands, floats, motorcycles, “The World’s Largest Strawberry Shortcake”, and everything in between. At the conclusion of the Grand Parade, the Festival begins! Everyone can enjoy a piece of strawberry shortcake along with a carnival, food and craft vendors.

The Oregon Gardens

Silverton, OR

Thursday, June 12, 2025

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Driver will be Gordon Petty.

The standard fee is $35 with a $5 discount for 60+ Activity Center members.

We are an 80-acre botanical garden, featuring more than 20 specialty gardens showcasing the diverse botanical beauty that can be found in the Willamette Valley and throughout the Pacific Northwest. We have specialty demonstration gardens for everyone, including the Sensory Garden, Rose Garden, Children’s Garden and Medicinal Garden! We are a pet-friendly garden and offer a narrated tram tour daily from April through October.

The Oregon Garden is committed to sustainability and education. Our grounds feature a number of demonstration areas touching on topics relevant to residents of the Pacific Northwest. The Rediscovery Forest is managed together with the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, and educates visitors on the practices and importance of Oregon’s forestry industry. Our wetlands and A-Mazing Water Garden represent a unique partnership with the City of Silverton; these areas of the garden cool the City’s effluent water which, in turn, is used to irrigate the Garden. Guests will also see sustainable practices such as green roofs, home composting, permaculture and more on display.

Visitors will also encounter plants of great historical and cultural significance, including our 400-year-old Signature Oak, an Oregon Heritage Tree, and our Hiroshima Peace Tree, a gingko descended from trees that survived the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.