Tulip Festival Signals Spring

The Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival signals the arrival of spring in Oregon's Mt. Hood Territory. The festival is the annual event put on by family owned Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm.

The festival offers endless rows of tulips in numerous varieties and colors over its 40 acres of dream-like beauty, plus an abundance of fun activities, food carts and the Tulip Market. Their large gift shop has a huge selection of souvenirs and a wide assortment of tulip bulbs for you to plant in your own yard. If you can’t decide while at the festival, you can shop their online catalog once you are back home. 

Online ticket sales return for 2025: In order to ensure smooth operation, tickets will once again only be available for advance purchase online. Tickets can be purchased starting in early March and all tickets must be purchased online. There will be no tickets available at the gate. Choose from general admission, multi-time access, and also special tours and classes.

The following is included with admission this year:

• Parking
• Shuttle transporting guests to and from the main tulip field to the main building
• Access to 40-acre tulip field with over 100 varieties of tulips
• Children's play area
• Access to Wooden Shoe Gardens
• Photo cut-out boards through the farm

The Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival is one of the most popular events in all of Oregon, for obvious reasons. It's hard not to be mesmerized by the festival as few scenes can rival the beauty of an endless sea of color. Going to the festival during the weekdays can help improve your experience. 

A few years ago the Wooden Shoe team instituted a new policy where all tickets had to be pre-purchased online. This helps a number of items including helping traffic flowing into the event. Cars are no longer backed up to the main roads as they waited in line to purchase their admission. You can help shorten that wait even more for yourself when you go Monday-Thursday. 

Another benefit to midweek visits: the photography gets way easier. So many people visit the farm with camera (or phone) in hand looking to get that postcard perfect shot. You find the composition, the light is perfect, you go to take the photo and *bang* someone walks into your shot. You can't really blame them, it's hard to stay out of all the pictures happening there. But you can limit that with a midweek visit. Fewer people dispersed amidst the 40 acres of tulips really gives you room to really put your creative talents to test.