Name: Early Days of Bend Walking Tour
Start: 2026-05-02T10:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-02T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Deschutes Historical Museum

March 2026
March 31 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

March History Pub: About the Changing Skyline- 100 Years of Landscape Change in Central Oregon

McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

During the summer of 1920, Frederick William Cleator (1883-1957), a Forest Service recreational planner, surveyed and signposted the Skyline Trail. This trail, first laid out between Crater Lake and Mount Jefferson, was a predecessor to the Pacific Crest Trail, which, decades later, completed Cleator's dream of a recreational trail running from Mexico to Canada. During […]

$5
April 2026
April 11

Read/Create: A Novel Idea Exhibit Opening

This year’s Novel Idea: Read/Create exhibit features artwork inspired by the 2026 titles Super Sonic by Thomas Kohnstamm and the youth edition, Hope in The Valley by Mitali Perkens. The exhibit opens Saturday, April 11 through June 13, 2026. Super Sonic launches readers into a kaleidoscopic tale of the generations of interrelated families who breathed […]

Free
April 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

April History Pub: About Oregon Gold; A history of mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era

McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

Gold mining was an important aspect of Oregon's history, far greater than what is generally understood.

$5
May 2026
Featured May 2 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Early Days of Bend Walking Tour

Deschutes Historical Museum 129 NW Idaho Ave., Bend, OR

EARLY DAYS OF BEND walking tour Travel back to when the river ran wild, Ponderosa pines were plentiful and Bend the Beautiful was a town in the making. Learn about early Bend through the stories of six "Bendites" and how these residents helped transform a young hamlet into a booming town. The Deschutes Historical Museum […]

$15