Eugene this week July 2-July 8

Top Picks 🏅 

Our top picks for events you won’t want to miss.

• Thursday 7/3 Giddy up! The Eugene Pro Rodeo 🎆 (all weekend )

• Friday 7/4 Run the classic Butte To Butte (or cheer on your neighbors!)

• Saturday 7/5 TrackTown lives up to its name w/ the Prefontaine Classic

• Oregon Bach Festival all week, lots of performances, talks and more

Around Town 🏙️ 

It’s healthy to leave your house once in a while…

• Wednesday 7/2 Lane FC takes the soccer field for their final home game

• Wednesday 7/2 Watch border collies perform tricks and sports

• Friday 7/4 Join the Red, White, and Brew bar crawl downtown

• Saturday 7/5 Rock out with Petty Fever, a Tom Petty tribute band

• Saturday 7/5 Ring of Fire, Johnny Cash show at Actor’s Cabaret

• Saturday 7/5 Yoga with puppies at The Laundromutt

• Saturday 7/5 Roll in hungry to the Willamette Valley Motoplex 5th of July

• Sunday 7/6 Northwest folksinger Jim Page takes the Tsunami book’s stage

• Tuesday 7/8 Film screening and Q&A of Icelandic film Hrafnamynd

• Tuesday 7/8 Enjoy Jack Kerouac? The Buddhist Years uncollected writings

• The Springfield Drifters have home games 7/2, 7/3 ( 🎆), 7/8

• The Eugene Emeralds are home 7/2 and 7/3 ( 🎆 )

For the Kiddos 🛝 

We won’t judge if you want to go and don’t have kids!

• Wednesday 7/2 Be a track star; Hayward field All Comers Meet (under 13)

• Wednesday 7/2 One day 4-H STEM camp (Vida, grades K-8)

• Wednesday 7/2 Learn to make tasty smoothies (ages 5-9)

• Tuesday 7/8 Free movie theater day “Spirited Away“ (ages 12-15)

• Tuesday 7/8 Bugs Meet and Greet; learn about creep crawlies! (ages 9-12)

• Tuesday 7/8 Bug Camp, enjoy all the critters! (Mapleton, ages 5-8)

The Duck Corner 🦆 

All things University of Oregon.

It’s Summer…. nothing much to report here! ☀️ 

What’s on Tap 🍻 

Grab a beverage and stay a while.

• Wednesday 7/2 Grab a drink and play Cat Bingo, with roaming cats!

• Saturday 7/5 Comedy meets freestyle throw down at Double Entendre

AND DON’T FORGET ⬇️ 

Take a Hike 🌲 

Get outside, you live in Oregon for darn sakes!

• Wednesday 7/2 Help with some habitat restoration along the riverfront

• Thursday 7/3 Head out on a birding walk with others

• Saturday 7/5 Help out at the Eugene butterfly count

• Sunday 7/6 Enjoy a little theater in the park with Robinhood

• Tuesday 7/8 Try your arm at disc golf putting at Alton Baker

• Tuesday 7/8 Dragonflies and Damselflies Wetland Wander at Mt Pisgah

• Tuesday 7/8 Get on the river and help pick up trash (boat seats provided)

• Tuesday 7/8 Hike around Dorris Ranch in the evening with the Obsidians

• Tuesday 7/8 Beaver Night, learn about these mammals and try to spot one

Free 💸 

Need we say more?

• Wed

• Thursday 7/3 Run or walk a mile under the lights of Hayward Field

• Thursday 7/3 Music in the park with The Greg Nestler Trio

• Friday 7/4 First Friday Art Walk (still happening this month, but smaller)

• Saturday 7/5 Go check out the Saturday Market and Farmer’s Market

• Saturday 7/5 Enjoy an outdoor yoga class at Dorris Ranch

• Sunday 7/6 The Whiteaker Community Market is the perfect little stroll

• Sunday 7/6 And so too is the Native American Arts and Crafts Market

• Tuesday 7/8 Get creative making a hummingbird feeder

Not Eugene, but Close Enough 🚗 

Events about an hour away, ish.

• Friday 7/4 July 4th celebrations; fireworks, concert, & more 🎆 (Florence)

• Friday 7/4 Fast cars, fireworks & Freedom Cup races 🎆 (Cottage Grove)

• Friday 7/4 Ride into the Hell on Hooves rodeo (Creswell)

• Friday 7/4 Yankee Doodle Celebration parade and more (Veneta)

• Friday 7/4 Golf, music and more at the Tokatee Celebration 🎆 (Blue River)

• Friday 7/4 July 4th Celebration with parade, 5k and more 🎆 (Harrisburg)

• Friday 7/4 4th of July pancakes, military flyover and more 🎆 (Creswell)