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A real small town experience

Clatskanie is the gem of Columbia County! It is the small town experience that can bring back your faith in people! Just remember, we are small but we have everything but crowds!
Arts and Entertainment. Clatskanie has its own performing arts center which hosts some amazing events, please check out the Clatskanie Arts Commission’s website at: https://www.clatskaniearts.org. Clatskanie also has a local nonprofit Art Gallery located downtown. Please check out their website as well: https://www.clatskaniebloom.com Shopping. Our local shops are wonderful and always changing! Please venture downtown to take in the several gift and thrift stores. Check out the map of Clatskanie! Coffee. Clatskanie has some of the best coffee shops around! Flowers n Fluff has a nice assortment of breakfast and lunch goodies and even some Keto options. It is located just east of the intersection. Farmhouse Coffee, located in the Safeway shopping center, has some wonderful baked goods as well. Finn’s not only is a coffee shop but a tackle shop as well. It is located just as you head east out of town on your right. All have a convenient drive through window. Recreation. We have one of the best covered skate parks this side of the Rockies thanks to Skatelite. It is located in the city park, just look for the big white cover! We also have a wonderful outdoor swimming pool that is open for exercise and recreational swimming from June to September. Also, don’t forget to explore our walking paths that wind through the downtown area! Farmers Market. The coolest little market in Oregon! Open from June through September downtown Clatskanie
Clatskanie
Arts and Entertainment. Clatskanie has its own performing arts center which hosts some amazing events, please check out the Clatskanie Arts Commission’s website at: https://www.clatskaniearts.org. Clatskanie also has a local nonprofit Art Gallery located downtown. Please check out their website as well: https://www.clatskaniebloom.com Shopping. Our local shops are wonderful and always changing! Please venture downtown to take in the several gift and thrift stores. Check out the map of Clatskanie! Coffee. Clatskanie has some of the best coffee shops around! Flowers n Fluff has a nice assortment of breakfast and lunch goodies and even some Keto options. It is located just east of the intersection. Farmhouse Coffee, located in the Safeway shopping center, has some wonderful baked goods as well. Finn’s not only is a coffee shop but a tackle shop as well. It is located just as you head east out of town on your right. All have a convenient drive through window. Recreation. We have one of the best covered skate parks this side of the Rockies thanks to Skatelite. It is located in the city park, just look for the big white cover! We also have a wonderful outdoor swimming pool that is open for exercise and recreational swimming from June to September. Also, don’t forget to explore our walking paths that wind through the downtown area! Farmers Market. The coolest little market in Oregon! Open from June through September downtown Clatskanie

Recreation

Half of downtown Clatskanie is a park! Swim, skate, fish, picnic or bring your kids to play!
Clatskanie City Park
300 Park St
Half of downtown Clatskanie is a park! Swim, skate, fish, picnic or bring your kids to play!

Monastery

Clatskanie is so fortunate to be the home of Great Vow Zen Monastery. On Sunday morning the monastery hosts a public Sunday Program beginning at 10am, two 25 minute periods of Zazen, divided by walking meditation, then a talk by a teacher or senior resident. Lunch at noon. 79640 Quincy-Mayger Rd, Clatskanie, Oregon
Great Vow Zen Monastery
Clatskanie is so fortunate to be the home of Great Vow Zen Monastery. On Sunday morning the monastery hosts a public Sunday Program beginning at 10am, two 25 minute periods of Zazen, divided by walking meditation, then a talk by a teacher or senior resident. Lunch at noon. 79640 Quincy-Mayger Rd, Clatskanie, Oregon

Sightseeing

Clatskanie Castle or simply The Castle by some and the Flippin Castle by others, is a 14-room, shingle-style Queen Anne structure in Clatskanie, Oregon. The house was commissioned in 1898 by Thomas J. Flippin, son of Oregon pioneers and founder of the West Oregon Lumber Company. The San Andreas, California, firm of Markwell and Sons built the house, covered in hand-cut shingles made by a brother of Thomas Flippin. The Flippin family occupied the home even before construction ended in 1900.
Flippin House National Historic Site
620 Southwest Tichenor Street
Clatskanie Castle or simply The Castle by some and the Flippin Castle by others, is a 14-room, shingle-style Queen Anne structure in Clatskanie, Oregon. The house was commissioned in 1898 by Thomas J. Flippin, son of Oregon pioneers and founder of the West Oregon Lumber Company. The San Andreas, California, firm of Markwell and Sons built the house, covered in hand-cut shingles made by a brother of Thomas Flippin. The Flippin family occupied the home even before construction ended in 1900.

Library

Located at 11 NE Lillich Street Clatskanie, Oregon (503)728-3732 Adult book discussion group meets once a month on the last Saturday of the month at 9:00 am at the library. A summer reading program for children begins the middle of June and last through the middle of August.
Clatskanie
Located at 11 NE Lillich Street Clatskanie, Oregon (503)728-3732 Adult book discussion group meets once a month on the last Saturday of the month at 9:00 am at the library. A summer reading program for children begins the middle of June and last through the middle of August.

Clatskanie Cultural Center

The restoration of the historic, but badly dilapidated Clatskanie I.O.O.F. Hall/ Avalon Theatre building into the Clatskanie Cultural Center was an enormous, decade-long, $3 million project undertaken by the Clatskanie Foundation in partnership with the Clatskanie Arts Commission and the City of Clatskanie. It is the largest, privately-funded, non-profit venture ever accomplished in the Clatskanie area. Sparked by a $500,000 bequest from C. Keith Birkenfeld, the descendant of Clatskanie and Nehalem Valley Pioneers, the project drew large grants from private foundations throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as donations ranging in size from a few dollars to $30,000 from local families, businesses and industries. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Clatskanie Cultural Center in the home of the City of Clatskanie, the Birkenfeld Theatre, a spacious Ballroom, and an attractive retail space. The Birkenfeld Theatre is the venue for Clatskanie Arts Commission performances, and is available to rent, along with the Ballroom, for private events.
Clatskanie
The restoration of the historic, but badly dilapidated Clatskanie I.O.O.F. Hall/ Avalon Theatre building into the Clatskanie Cultural Center was an enormous, decade-long, $3 million project undertaken by the Clatskanie Foundation in partnership with the Clatskanie Arts Commission and the City of Clatskanie. It is the largest, privately-funded, non-profit venture ever accomplished in the Clatskanie area. Sparked by a $500,000 bequest from C. Keith Birkenfeld, the descendant of Clatskanie and Nehalem Valley Pioneers, the project drew large grants from private foundations throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as donations ranging in size from a few dollars to $30,000 from local families, businesses and industries. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Clatskanie Cultural Center in the home of the City of Clatskanie, the Birkenfeld Theatre, a spacious Ballroom, and an attractive retail space. The Birkenfeld Theatre is the venue for Clatskanie Arts Commission performances, and is available to rent, along with the Ballroom, for private events.

Skate Park

If you skate or know someone that does, this park is a must!
Clatskanie
If you skate or know someone that does, this park is a must!