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Exploring Central Oregon in the summer and fall means staying aware and prepared. Here are the key tools to bookmark before your trip:

🔥 Fire restrictions + wildfire updates: centraloregonfire.org / Text COFIRE to 888-777
🔍 Large wildfire incident updates: inciweb.wildfire.gov
🌫️ Real-time smoke + air quality: fire.airnow.gov
🚨 Evacuation alerts: Download the Genasys Protect app
🛣️ Road closures + travel impacts: tripcheck.com

Know the evacuation levels before you go: Be Ready → Be Set → Go Now.

Exploring Central Oregon in the summer and fall means staying aware and prepared. Here are the key tools to bookmark before your trip:

🔥 Fire restrictions + wildfire updates: centraloregonfire.org / Text COFIRE to 888-777
🔍 Large wildfire incident updates: inciweb.wildfire.gov
🌫️ Real-time smoke + air quality: fire.airnow.gov
🚨 Evacuation alerts: Download the Genasys Protect app
🛣️ Road closures + travel impacts: tripcheck.com

Know the evacuation levels before you go: Be Ready → Be Set → Go Now.

Exploring Central Oregon in the summer and fall means staying aware and prepared. Here are the key tools to bookmark before your trip:

🔥 Fire restrictions + wildfire updates: centraloregonfire.org / Text COFIRE to 888-777
🔍 Large wildfire incident updates: inciweb.wildfire.gov
🌫️ Real-time smoke + air quality: fire.airnow.gov
🚨 Evacuation alerts: Download the Genasys Protect app
🛣️ Road closures + travel impacts: tripcheck.com

Know the evacuation levels before you go: Be Ready → Be Set → Go Now.

Exploring Central Oregon in the summer and fall means staying aware and prepared. Here are the key tools to bookmark before your trip:

🔥 Fire restrictions + wildfire updates: centraloregonfire.org / Text COFIRE to 888-777
🔍 Large wildfire incident updates: inciweb.wildfire.gov
🌫️ Real-time smoke + air quality: fire.airnow.gov
🚨 Evacuation alerts: Download the Genasys Protect app
🛣️ Road closures + travel impacts: tripcheck.com

Know the evacuation levels before you go: Be Ready → Be Set → Go Now.

Exploring Central Oregon in the summer and fall means staying aware and prepared. Here are the key tools to bookmark before your trip:

🔥 Fire restrictions + wildfire updates: centraloregonfire.org / Text COFIRE to 888-777
🔍 Large wildfire incident updates: inciweb.wildfire.gov
🌫️ Real-time smoke + air quality: fire.airnow.gov
🚨 Evacuation alerts: Download the Genasys Protect app
🛣️ Road closures + travel impacts: tripcheck.com

Know the evacuation levels before you go: Be Ready → Be Set → Go Now.

Effective May 18, 2026: Stage 1 Fire Restrictions are now in effect on the Deschutes National Forest and BLM lands in Central Oregon.

🚫 No campfires or charcoal — except in designated Forest Service fire rings at approved campgrounds
🚫 No smoking
🚫 No chainsaws between 1 PM and 8 PM
🚫 No off-road vehicle use — stay on designated roads and trails
🚫 No open-flame welding or explosives

✅ Gas or propane stoves with an on/off switch are still allowed — clear 3 feet of vegetation on all sides first.

One spark can start a wildfire. Thank you for doing your part to protect Central Oregon. 🌲

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Same trail. New prizes. 🍻
Complete your first @bendaletrail territory to earn a stainless steel water bottle—then collect territory stickers designed by local artists as you knock out more territories.

👉 Visit the breweries, check in (app or paper passport), and pick up your prize at the Bend Visitor Center.

Still hoping to complete your taster tray? 👀 Mystery boxes are now available at the Visitor Center—four random territory glasses for $5 (buy two boxes, get a tasting board free). A limited number of locally made juniper boards are also available for $10 while supplies last.

#BendAleTrail #VisitBend #BendOregon #CraftBeer #DrinkLocal

Hear that? The river's calling 🌲

POV: You decided to spend the long weekend in Bend.

Three days. Wide open. No agenda required.

POV: You decided to spend the long weekend in Bend.

Three days. Wide open. No agenda required.

POV: You decided to spend the long weekend in Bend.

Three days. Wide open. No agenda required.

POV: You decided to spend the long weekend in Bend.

Three days. Wide open. No agenda required.

POV: You decided to spend the long weekend in Bend.

Three days. Wide open. No agenda required.

Still mornings. Still water. Still one of the best views in Bend.

📍: Sparks Lake
📸: @pete_alport

$300,000 in funding. 22 local organizations. Endless reasons to visit Bend.

This year, the Bend Cultural Tourism Commission reviewed applications totaling nearly $950,000—and awarded grants to 22 of Bend’s arts and culture organizations. Every dollar comes from overnight visitors to Bend, reinvested right back into the community.

Meet the 2026 grantees:
BendFilm
High Desert Museum
Tower Theatre Foundation
The Greenhouse Cabaret
Parallel 44 Presents
Lay It Out Events
OUT Central Oregon
TEDxBend
Oxford Hotel
1988 Entertainment
Pattie Gonia + Outdoorist Oath
Ballet Bend
Paula Dreyer
Bend Comedy & Arts Foundation
High Desert Food & Farm Alliance
High Desert Chamber Music
High Desert Fire Artists
American Impressionist Society
Backstitch Ghost of Brian Craig
OSU Cascades
Art Sprouts (Kolovita)

Nobody warns you about how hard it is to hand the keys back. High desert trails and nowhere to be—you'll find out for yourself 😅 #ThisIsBend

📌 ATV tour with @octaneadventuresco

Just another Monday on the Deschutes. 🏄

Just another Monday on the Deschutes. 🏄

Just another Monday on the Deschutes. 🏄

Just another Monday on the Deschutes. 🏄

📍 The gates are open.
Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway is officially open for the season—ahead of schedule, because of a mild winter.

If you've been waiting for a sign to book that trip, here it is. 🌸 Wildflowers are just starting to bloom at the lower elevations, and the best weeks are still ahead.

Charcuterie, dirty martinis, and nowhere to be tomorrow. The cheat code for a Bend Friday night. Pull up a seat. 🥂 @barrbcbend

Charcuterie, dirty martinis, and nowhere to be tomorrow. The cheat code for a Bend Friday night. Pull up a seat. 🥂 @barrbcbend

Charcuterie, dirty martinis, and nowhere to be tomorrow. The cheat code for a Bend Friday night. Pull up a seat. 🥂 @barrbcbend