Downtown Camas | Shops, Restaurants, Events in Camas, WA

Cancelled--Spring Clean-Up & Planting Day in Downtown Camas
2020-04-26 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Due to the current safety mandates, this event will be canceled this year but we will be doing our very best to keep downtown beautiful! Stay tuned for further updates! If you’d like to support our Downtown Camas Flower Basket Program to bring color and beauty to our downtown, click here and thank you!
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A community-powered floral beautification day. Come lend a hand and help turn our town into a visual delight to enjoy all summer long!
Rain or sun, we have fun! Come downtown on April 26th, 2020, from 1-4pm (lunch starts at 12:30) and make your town beautiful! Share an afternoon with other local community members who want to help make Downtown Camas shine!
Bring your gloves, spades, shovels, buckets, brooms, and a wheelbarrow if you have one, and let’s weed, plant, clean up trash, sweep, and spread bark dust (we provide rubber gloves and bags for trash pick up). Fun in your town!!
Meet at Journey (4th and Birch). Journey Church will be serving a FREE grilled burger and hot dog lunch to get us going starting at 12:30! Thank you Journey!!!
A great way for youth and adults to come together to help the community.
For more information email info@downtowncamas.com. Thanks to all that participate!

Hoops 360 - 3 on 3 Tournament
2018-08-17 09:00 - 2018-08-19 17:00 | Downtown Camas, Downtown Camas
Are you ready for some basketball? Get ready, because Downtown Camas has a new basketball tournament coming to town, the Hoops 360 3on3 Basketball Tournament hosted by Shoot 360!
The event will run from Aug. 17th – Aug. 19th and will be presented by Shoot 360. Games will start Friday at 8:00pm and conclude at 10:00pm. Games will start Saturday morning at 10:00am and end at 5:00pm. Games will resume at 10:00am on Sunday and conclude by 3:00pm. Here is the scoop:
3 on 3 basketball games on 15 courts in town, live music, great shopping, great dining, small craft brews, family theater….what more do you want out of a great family weekend! Come and check out the most creative 3 on 3 basketball tournament in the Pacific Northwest. Aug 17 – 19 2018 in Downtown Camas, WA. http://basketball.exposureevents.com/108459/hoops-360-3on3-2018-presented-by-shoot-360
Like them on Facebook for all the updates!
FYI–streets that will be closed for this event include 5th Ave from Adams to Dallas and side streets from 4th to 6th. 4th Avenue, 6th Avenue, Adams and Dallas all remain open.
Invite your friends and celebrate the launch of this exciting event filled with basketball and fun!

Picnic in Color! - Downtown Camas - POSTPONED
2018-07-29 11:00 - 16:00
EVENT POSTPONED!!!!

Due to the excessive heat predicted for this coming Sunday, July 29th, we have POSTPONED the Picnic in Color! – Downtown Camas. The safety and health of everyone involved is most important. Thanks for your understanding and STAY TUNED FOR A FUTURE DATE!!!! Stay cool!
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Picnic in Color
July 29, 2018
11-4 pm
Big color, big art, and big fun will fill downtown Camas during the first-ever Picnic in Color, a family-friendly, art-focused event slated for Sunday, July 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Brought to you by Shanahan Farmers Insurance, Carla Edwards, Realtor, Craft Warehouse, Lisa Le Properties and organized by Downtown Camas Association (DCA), DJ Linus will be on hand with his popular dance party hits, free arts and crafts for kids, art demos and food vendors for picnicking. Admission is free.

Families are encouraged to come enjoy the Picnic in Color as it’s taking place Sunday of the Camas Days Weekend. There will be a plethora of fun activities, all revolving around art and community. Children will create small pieces of art, which will become a larger piece of collaborative art to be displayed at the Camas Public Library following Picnic in Color. Youngsters will also be given the opportunity to create a piece of art they can take home. They will be painting, crafting and molding with clay. Local artists, Anna Norris, Ted Norris, Dore Jean, Linsey Keating, Tommer Gonser and others will help the kids with their masterpieces (which will be painted using a pizza box easel). The Wild Hair Crew will be there adding bright, beautiful color to hair! Mandi and Ian with mandi Moon Artistry will also be downtown creating colorful spray tattoos and cool hair flair!!!

For this inaugural event, bring your picnic baskets or purchase food from our vendors and downtown restaurants, as tables will be available for enjoying delicious food together. Enjoy the picnic lunch right on our quaint, tree-lined streets.

We are all encouraged to wear bright colors, as the streets will be lined with colorful decorations, balloons and decor, all adding to the vibrancy of this event. Win raffle tickets for fun prize baskets for wearing bright colors, too!

“Dog Days of Summer!” June First Friday 2018
2018-06-01 17:00 - 20:00
Click here for a printable passport and activity list for the event!
A fun celebration of Dog Days of Summer on June’s First Friday! June 1st, 5-8pm. Doggie talent show and fashion show with prizes! How fun! Vendors, kids’ crafts with a dog theme, a dog breed guessing activity in participating businesses, and more! There will also be a dog and owner look-alike contest! Bring your favorite pooch (leashes required) and make a fun night of it. Thank you Naturally Healthy Pet in Downtown Camas for sponsoring this event!
Doggie Fashion Show & Owner Look Alike Contest at 6pm, Doggie Talent Contest at 7pm. For the Fashion Show, the judging will be for Funniest, Cutest, and Most Creative. For the Talent Contest, the judging will be for most clever, most difficult, and cutest talents. Sign up when you get to First Friday at the DCA table, up to 15 minutes before each event. The contests, crafts and other fun will be between 4th and 5th on Cedar Street. No cost to enter.
There will also be vendors! Dog Specific Vendors coming to the “Dog Days of Summer” are:
PNW Visiting Vet
Must Love Dogs NW
Polka Dot Paws
Deborah’s Creations
Wigglin’ Home Boxer Rescue
Pup Town Cafe
High Expectations Dog Training
WCGHS (West Columbia Gorge Humane Society)
Sit & Stay Pet Sitting Services
Other activities for First Friday include:

Ribbon Cuttings for Lisa Le’ Properties, A Boutique Experience at 5pm for their Grand Opening Celebration and for Journey Community Church at 5:30pm to welcome new Senior Pastor, Adrian Bucur and Family
Mesa Outdoor Party and Live Music from 6-9pm
Art Gallery Shows and Receptions:

Attic Gallery
Camas Gallery
Second Story Gallery
Elida Art Studio & Gallery

Get a ticket to win for every $10 spent in downtown

So much going on all over town! Shop, dine, enjoy the galleries, listen to live music, and more!

"A Wedding Affair to Remember"
2018-02-02 14:00 - 20:00 | Downtown Camas, Downtown Camas
Everyone loves a wedding so we are especially excited to announce that for the First Friday in February, 2018, we will be hosting a wedding in Downtown Camas where everyone gets to be a part!!

It will be a “Wedding Affair to Remember”! Nick Calais and Tami Weidert—two of our biggest First Friday attenders and ambassadors—will say “I do” in front of friends and family and the community is invited as well! Nick and Tami have been to each First Friday since April 2015 and have made so many friends and connections over the years. They have a true heart for our community and what First Fridays bring and they want to share the First Friday experience with all their friends and family—and want you to come, too!
The theme each February traditionally has been “A Chocolate Affair to Remember” so for Feb 2018 it will be “A Wedding Affair to Remember”!
It will be a giant downtown wide wedding celebration! The ceremony will be held at the Liberty Theatre at 2pm (community is invited!). Our Camas Mayor Scott Higgins will marry them. Tami will carry a paper bouquet (including toilet paper of course!) in honor of our town’s heritage. Cake Happy will provide the wedding cake and food from all the downtown restaurants will be served at an outside celebration with lighted tents, music, dancing, games and more! Your Party & Event Center is generously sponsoring the event. There will be wedding themed specials and activities all through town.

A Wedding Show with local vendors will be set up in Journey Church, 304 NE 4th, from 5-8pm as part of the theme including Your Big Day (wedding dresses, tuxedos, honeymoon travel planning), truly scrumptious (wedding cakes and treats), blu box art (photography), Whispering Waters Farm (wedding event venue), Chickabloom Floral Studio (wedding bouquets and flowers), Whimsy Chocolates, Mandi MOON artistry (certified makeup artist), Your Party & Event Center (wedding rentals), Formal Flush (luxury portable restrooms) and more.
Even more amazing fun in the works for the Nick & Tami – The Wedding Affair to Remember!! Not only will there be the wedding, there will be treats too! truly scrumptious will provide an array of deliciousness throughout town. There will be four locations to choose from, the tent(which will be located on Cedar Street), Attic Gallery, Arktana and Journey Community Church – Brownies, cookies, rainbow krispy treats, marshmallow pops, Mini pies, Sea salt caramel apple pie, mini cupcakes and snack station and more! We can’t wait! #downtowncamaslove #hiphipcalais
For the passport activity in the evening from 5-8pm, merchants will have their wedding pictures in their shops and you get to guess the date of the wedding! There will be chocolates throughout town at merchants as well. The Liberty Theatre will show the classic film An Affair to Remember that weekend as part of the theme.
It is because of their heart and downtown engagement that we decided to do this for a First Friday event. An amazing way to celebrate two of our favorite downtown visitors and include the community in a big way! It’s going to be a First Friday to top all First Fridays and all are invited.
Mark your calendars for 2-2-18! It will be a wonderful night celebrating love and community.
#hiphipcalais #downtowncamaslove

“Small Town Summer Fun”! August First Friday 2017
2017-08-04 17:00 - 20:00
First Friday is coming August 4th and it’s the “Small Town Summer Fun” theme!
Activities will include outdoor fun & games (stay tuned!), live music sponsored by Nuestra Mesa, art shows and receptions in all downtown galleries, kids’ crafts including Paint Roller Mobile Paint Party, and more!
Join us for a fun and dynamic summer evening in Downtown Camas!
