The Oregon Alpenfest is rescheduled and will return in 2022. The only Swiss-Bavarian cultural festival in the western U.S. features tasty local bratwurst, Terminal Gravity brews, The Polkatones dance band, the Tirolean Dancers, Swiss yodeler Shelby Imholt, virtuoso accordionist Alicia Jo Straka, alphornists Phil and Gayle Neuman, free polka lessons with Randy and Ashley Thull and art, craft and gift shopping at the Alpine Fair. 


The festival gets underway Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022 in historic Enterprise and continue Friday through Sunday at the Harley Tucker Rodeo Grounds in the Old West-themed town of Joseph. The town is named for Chief Joseph, heroic leader of the Nez Perce people who inhabited the Wallowa Valley for centuries. 

The Wallowa Mountain country offers hiking, camping, boating, swimming, fishing, hunting, the deepest canyon in North America and the steepest four-passenger tramway in North America. Also: a public art walk, art galleries, quaint shops and great eats.

Oregon’s Alpenfest in the spectacular Wallowa Mountains has been entertaining visitors and locals in Swiss-Bavarian style since 1975. The festival is produced by Alpenfest, a nonprofit organization governed by a local board of directors and staffed by an army of volunteers. 

If you’d like to volunteer or ask a question: alpenmeister@mail2oregon.com