Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Wine Festival!
The Astoria Warrenton Crab, Seafood & Festival will celebrate its 29th anniversary in 2011. The Festival has always been on the last full weekend in April. However, In 2011, this coincides with Easter and the festival will be delayed to April 29, 30 & May 1st.
Our new logo art was designed by local artist, Jeff Miller, who owns a design and illustration firm, Red Dwarf Graphx. Miller graduated from the Art Institue of Seattle with a Commercial Graphics degree. In addition to doing freelance design work, Miller is employed at Sign-One in Seaside.
Enjoy a great spread of northwest cuisine, myriad arts and crafts, a selection of Oregon and Washington’s finest wineries, the beer garden and more. The Rotary Club of Astoria will be serving their traditional crab dinner all weekend long (price TBD based on Market Value). Live music will be on the stage in the exhibit hall all weekend and we’ll also have musicians at times in the tent.
The Coast River Business Journal produced our official event program in 2010. It includes a full list of vendors and map of locations, seafood recipes, entertainment listings, and more. The program is below, split into 4 sections to reduce the file size and ease download time.
Pages 1 to 13 (5.2MB, PDF)
table of contents, festival schedule and admission prices, shuttle info, entertainment descriptions
Pages 14 to 27 (4.1MB, PDF)
wine competition results, vendor list and map, sponsors
Pages 28 to 40 (5.4MB, PDF)
seafood recipes and cooking tips, community event info
Pages 41 to 52 (4.7MB, PDF)
seafood recipes and cooking tips, wine pairings, community event info
HOURS
Friday 4 – 9 pm $8 general admission
Saturday 10 – 8 pm $10 general admission
Sunday 11 – 4 pm $5 general admission
Children under 12 years are free all weekend. We encourage you to take advantage of our less crowded times on Saturday morning and Sunday when bringing small children to the Festival.
A weekend pass may be purchased for $18 on Friday at the Festival or at the Chamber during the month of April.
Admission prices and hours subject to change, check back in 2011 for updates, if any.
LOCATION
The Festival is located at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds, on Hwy 202 about 4 miles from the junction with Hwy 101 in Astoria. The physical address is 92937 Walluski Loop, Astoria. Parking is $5 a car and is limited at the event, especially when the weather brings rain. We encourage you to take the Festival shuttle.
2010 SHUTTLES
Shuttles will be servicing many of the Astoria and Warrenton lodging properties and the park & ride stop at the Port of Astoria on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, shuttles will only run to the Port of Astoria park & ride. Festival shuttle is $2 Rountrip and the fee is collected at the Festival.
FRIDAY – Shuttles start at 4pm and the last bus leaves the Festival at 9pm.
SATURDAY – Shuttles start at 9:30am and the last bus leaves the Festival at 8pm.
SUNDAY – LIMITED SHUTTLE SERVICE from the Port of Astoria only starting at 10:30am and the last bus leaves the Festival at 4pm.
2010 Festival Shuttle Stops listed by Route (Subject to change)
Dungeness Bus – West Astoria: Columbia Inn, Astoria Dunes Motel, KFC, Cannery Pier Hotel, Red Lion Inn, Port of Astoria, Best Western (at Hamburg)
Salmon Bus – Central Astoria: Liberty Theater, Holiday Inn Express, Peter Pan Market
Tuna Bus – East Astoria: Tongue Point Job Corps entrance, Crest Motel, Alderbrook Community Center, Comfort Suites/East End Mooring Basin
Halibut Bus – Warrenton: Shilo Inn, Mini Mart, 9th & South Main, Fort Stevens main gate, KOA, Corkey’s, Kamper’s West, Fred Meyer, Lewis & Clark RV
Shuttle service from Seaside is available by advance reservation. Call 503-738-9898
ENTERTAINMENT
Our main stage in the Exhibit Hall will feature a variety of great live music all weekend. Check back in Spring 2011 for the lineup.
WINE COMPETITION
Each year we invite our winery vendors to enter into our Festival Wine Competition to vie for Best of Show. Awards are given to the top 3 “Best of Show” winners and to the best in each varietal.
2010 BEST OF SHOW WINNERS:
Gold Spangler Vineyards 2007 Southern Oregon Petite Syrah
Silver Eola Hills 2006 Reserve Oregon
Bronze Zerba Cellars 2006 Columbia Valley Merlot
Click here to download a list of all the winners. (pdf 50kb)