Downtown Camas

First Friday – November 6th: “Thankful for YOU (and pie :)) Multicultural Celebration!” We love the fall and we are SO thankful for you! We all come from different places and have different heritages and we want to celebrate that. Our diversity makes us special and interesting! Bring your friends and family downtown for pie tastings, pie raffles, a pie walk dance party, multicultural displays and so much more!

• Ribbon Cutting at 6pm for the new expansion at Evergreen Vinyl! 321 NE 4th Ave.
• Enter Pie Raffles all around town!
• Yummy pie tastings at Fuel donated by Lore Tea + Coffee
• “Pie Walk Dance Party”–try to win a delicious pie! at 7:30pm inside of Journey, 304 NE 4th Ave. The Pie Walk is generously sponsored by Synkwise!
• Complete the “Gratitude Passport” throughout downtown businesses & be entered to win!
• Learn about your neighbors and our diverse backgrounds, cultures and histories!
• Drop off your unwrapped toys at registration at Fuel Medical for the Toys for Tots drive!
• Kids’ autumn art, crafts, games and treats
• S’mores roasting, weather permitting
• Art Shows and Receptions in Attic Gallery, 419 NE Cedar; Gallery 408, 408 NE 4th; RedDoor Gallery, 411 NE Dallas; and Second Story Gallery, 625 NE 4th Ave, upstairs at the Camas Library.
• After hours shopping, dining, live music, more!

Start your evening at the DCA tables in the Fuel Medical lobby, 314 NE Birch St. See you in beautiful Downtown Camas for all the fall fun!

First Friday, December 4th, 5-8pm

Hosted and organized by City of Camas Parks & Rec and promoted and sponsored by the Downtown Camas Association! What a spectacular holiday evening it will be!

This event will include photos with Santa, crafts & activities, entertainment, free hot cocoa sponsored by Journey Church, holiday shopping, art shows, and more! The tree will be lit at 5pm for the evening festivities and snow will fall!

The DCA participates in this event by being a sponsor of the “snow” and making sure it flies! The DCA also brings friendly elves to town that hand out festive goodies to the kiddos from their Holiday Swag Wagon, and the DCA promotes the event and all the amazing local shopping for the holidays! We also help coordinate the safety pedestrian corridors during the tree lighting.

Residents and visitors alike will once again enjoy a bustling downtown Camas with school and community choirs, bands and dancers, photos with Santa (bring your camera!), crafts for the kids, street food vendors, and downtown restaurants and shops open for business. The event is coordinated and hosted by Camas Parks & Recreation and coincides with Downtown Camas Association’s First Friday.

IT’S SO MUCH FUN!!! See you in downtown for all the holiday activities December 4th from 5pm – 8pm!

For more details, visit the City’s Hometown Holidays webpage or contact City of Camas Parks & Rec at 360.834.5307. Hope to see you for this delightful community favorite!

Chocolate treats, art shows, candy themed activities, after hours shopping, prizes, and more will all be a part of the First Friday event in Downtown Camas on February 5th, 5-8pm.

• Guess the candy jar amounts in each participating location and be entered to win the candy, gift cards and other great Valentine’s themed prizes!
• Art Hearts Scavenger Hunt! Find a mini heart hidden outside in Downtown, and exchange it for a beautiful art heart magnet, designed and crafted by local pottery studio Norris Arts, while supplies last.
• Get a picture with “Nick & Tami” (Happy 9th Anniversary to the downtown wedding couple from February First Friday 2018!) and get extra chances to win!
• Enjoy a mini hot chocolate from the Downtown Camas Association
• Checkout the themed jewelry and accessories
• Downtown businesses will be serving and selling chocolate delights and other romantic gifts with wine and specials at select locations as well
• Play the Candy Bar Spin to Win Game! Mmmm
• Amazing art receptions with refreshments with wine and chocolate: Attic Gallery, 419 NE Cedar St; Gallery 408 , 408 NE 4th, featuring the juried art show “All About Love”; RedDoor Gallery 411 NE Dallas, featuring live classical music from talented student musicians; and the Second Story Gallery, 625 NE 4th, featuring a special new exhibition, “We’re Still Here: Resilience of Washington Tribes”
• Kids’ craft & themed games and Legos at the DCA tables inside Fuel, 314 NE Birch Street
• Shop late! Special sales and live music throughout downtown shops and restaurants!

Start your night at the DCA tables in the Fuel Lobby, 314 NE Birch Street

For pictures of last year’s event click here!

“Welcome to Jurassic Camas!”

For a printable First Friday Passport & Activity List, CLICK HERE!

Join us March 5th for First Friday from 5pm-8pm! Stomp, chomp and ROAR your way through Downtown Camas during this BIG & BOLD interactive, informative and most of all FUN First Friday!

First Friday activities include:

— “Jurassic Camas Quest” activity throughout downtown businesses–enter to win fun prizes for playing!
— The Great Dino Egg Hunt Adventure! Find an egg hidden filled with Dino-themed treasure in Downtown and be entered to win the ultimate Dino Lovers prize basket!
— After-hours shopping & dining specials
–Dinosaur crafts & games
— Dino Photo ops
— Art receptions with refreshments: Attic Gallery, 419 NE Cedar St. Gallery 408 , 408 NE 4th, RedDoor Gallery 411 NE Dallas, and the Second Story Gallery, 625 NE 4th
— Dress as your favorite dinosaur or shark or prehistoric plant or ? and be entered to win a special Jurassic themed prize! (note: blow up dinosaur costumes should be worn outside businesses only–those tails you know! :))
— Jurassic inspired games, prizes, treats and more! Join us!

Start your evening at the DCA registration tables in the Fuel Medical Lobby (314 NE Birch St.)

Click Here to see all the Facebook Album full of fun pics from 2026 Jurassic Camas!

The Jurassic Period was a time of significant global change in continental configurations, oceanographic patterns and biological systems. During this period the supercontinent Pangea split apart, allowing for the eventual development of what are now the central Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Many groups of vertebrate and invertebrate organisms important in the modern world made their first appearance during the Jurassic Period. Life was especially diverse in the oceans—thriving reef ecosystems, shallow-water invertebrate communities, and large swimming predators, including sharks, reptiles and squid-like animals. On land, dinosaurs and flying pterosaurs dominated the ecosystems, and birds made their first appearance. (From Britannica.com)

The fan-favorite, Camas Comic Con will be back for a fourth year! Join us June 4th from 5pm – 8pm. Family Friendly Fandom on First Friday in Downtown Camas!

Enjoy the Camas version of Comic Con with a focus on creating a fun and friendly event for everyone!

Comics, sci-fi, cosplay, anime, Disney, fantasy, movies and everything in between. If you are a fan of it, it counts! Our goal is to provide you with a rewarding, fun, and family-friendly event experience.

• “Fandom Fun!” Passport Activity with fandom trivia and puzzles throughout downtown businesses–enter to win prizes donated by downtown merchants.
• Collectible Lanyards for the first 300 people to check in!
• Fandom Sticker Trading sponsored by the DCA
• Cosplay Bingo
• Light Saber Lessons
• Character Photo ops throughout downtown,
• Checkout themed books brought to us by the Camas Public Library.
• Spin the Wheel and guess the hero!
• Comic book themed art activities and demos inside Fuel Medical
• Checkout the Life Sized TARDIS from Dr. Who in front of the Liberty Theatre
• All natural themed shave ice available for purchase from Straub’s Snow
• Art Shows & Receptions at Attic Gallery, 419 NE Cedar; Gallery 408, 408 NE 4th; RedDoor Gallery, 411 NE Dallas; and Second Story Gallery, 625 NE 4th
• Shopping and Dining Specials throughout Downtown Camas
• Live music options throughout town
• All the things to help you celebrate your fandom! Join us!

Start your evening at the DCA registration tables inside of Fuel Medical Group (314 NE Birch St.)

Interested in sponsoring Camas Comic Con First Friday or learning more about DCA Event Sponsorship Opportunities? CLICK HERE for the DCA Event Sponsorship Menu.

Our town will be washed with color and art! The Picnic In Color event will be Sunday, July 25th from 11am – 3pm.

This is a FREE, family arts & crafts event hosted by the Downtown Camas Association to celebrate having fun with art! Local artists will be on hand assisting and there will be collaborative art projects, lots of color, music and more!

2027 Activities coming soon!

2026 Activities included:

Tie – Dye bags with Upward Camas
12pm Interactive Story Time with Periwinkle’s Toy Shoppe
12:30pm Puppet Show from Pegasus Puppet Theater, Sponsored by Periwinkle’s Toy Shoppe
1:30 Dance performance from Virtuosity
Make a mixed media collage with artist, Heidi Curley
Duck decorating and flume races with Rotary Club of Camas Washougal
Colorful fun with Little Otters Sip & Play Cafe
Water balloon yo yos with British Swim School
Painting fun with the Artisans’ Guild of Camas
Dance to win and groove with music from DJ Linus
Design a Doughnut with NextDough Neighbor
Paper Art with DCA Volunteers
and more!!!!

Bring your picnic or purchase a snack from vendors! Downtown Camas features many restaurants and coffee shops within walking distance of this great event. Experience artful creative activities for all. Don’t forget to wear bright colors! Come to 4th and Cedar in Downtown Camas. We can’t wait!

For all the photos from 2026’s Picnic in Color event, CLICK HERE!

Thank you to our 2026 Picnic in Color sponsors and partners:

Periwinkle’s Toy Shoppe

Craft Warehouse

Upward Camas

Norris Arts Studio & Gallery,

Vancouver Elite Gymnastics Academy Preschool

Kona Ice of Evergreen Orchards and Lacamas

Artisans’ Guild of Camas

Camas Washougal Rotary Club

Street Closures:
Until 6pm (streets will already be closed for Camas Days)
Cedar from 4th to 5th and 4th from Cedar to Dallas

The theme for this First Friday will be Unicorns, Rainbows & Mythical Beasts! Join us Friday, August 6th for the First Friday Fun finding the unicorns, rainbows and mythical beasts all throughout town!

Passport activity: The “Unicorns, Rainbows & Mythical Beasts Sticker Scavenger Hunt”, First Friday 5-8pm. Find “Otis the Ogre” in participating merchants and choose the sticker that goes with the “mythical beast clue” he gives you. Add the sticker to the passport. The more stickers you collect, the more chances you have to win!

Passports and sticker sheets can be picked up at the DCA table at Fuel Medical Group (314 NE Birch St.)

Other First Friday activities include:

• Mythical Match Game, match all the Mythical Beast Cards in 1 minute and get a ticket to win!
• Craft with the Girl Scouts
• Mythical Beast, Rainbow & Unicorn inspired games, crafts and prizes
• Free Cotton Candy from Grace Church
• Art receptions with refreshments with wine, chocolate and live music: Attic Gallery 419 NE Cedar; Gallery 408 , 408 NE 4th ; RedDoor Gallery 411 NE Dallas; and the Second Story Gallery, 625 NE 4th
• Special popup from Anxious Toast inside the Fuel Medical Lobby
• Dress in unicorn, rainbow or mythical beast attire and be entered to win a special prize!
• After hours shopping, dining, live music & fun throughout town!

Come with a group or take on the adventure by yourself – it will be so much fun!