Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival

If It’s November, It Must Be Time For The Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival!

The Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival has become one of the best mushroom events in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California — the festival is only a 30-minute drive from Crescent City, California in Del Norte County! Make your plans to spend the weekend for this very popular festival.

The festival is being held at Chetco Brewing Company (830 Railroad Street in downtown Brookings) and runs from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm both Saturday and Sunday. General admission is $5.00 for adults and covers one or both days; once you’ve paid, your colored wristband is all you need to show to come and go from the main hall during the festival. (Kids 12 and under are free to attend, as long as they’re with a paying adult).

One of the highlights of the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival is the huge display, with over 200+ varieties of wild mushrooms that are locally collected and identified for you. Those who have attended our festival in the past are always in awe of the sheer number and diversity of wild mushrooms our team gathers for this display. We will also have a select group of vendors selling all things mushroomy, along with some local food trucks and beverages to keep you happy!

There will be eight mushroom identification hikes into the forest, a free kids workshop, a culinary workshop (with yummy samples), and two Intro to Wild Mushrooms full-day workshops that include lunch on Saturday or Sunday. Plus, many more leading experts talking about mycology and mushroom-everything.

If you want to hear a lecture from one of our visiting experts or join a mushroom identification hike, tickets go on sale Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026 at www.wildriversmushroomfestival.com. The cost for each lecture is $20.00, and hikes will be $10.00. 

Make plans now to attend the Wild Rivers Mushroom Festival. For more information, please email wildriversmushroomfestival@gmail.com, or call 541-661-1385