The Schedule

All festival activities are FREE. Schedule items with the salmon icon are opportunities to get a punch on the Salmon Migration Passport, increasing your chances in the raffle on Saturday. You must return your passport to the IRU booth at the main festival by 4:15 to be entered in the raffle, which is at 4:30.

Interested in camping? Mountain Village Resort has spots to reserve. Other questions can be answered on the FAQs page.

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FRIDAY 8/22

  • This talk will cover the immense opportunity in front of Idaho communities once dam removal occurs on the Lower Snake. Restoring this vital migration corridor would mean recovering salmon and steelhead to healthy and harvestable numbers and recovering 140 miles of free-flowing river, which could form the backbone of sportfishing and outdoor recreation economies across the region. Barbarian Brewing will provide beer.

    5:30-6:30 pm at the Stanley Museum.

    *Passport location

  • at the Stanley Museum. Barbarian Brewing will provide beer.

  • Join us for a fun night of Salmon Trivia to kick off the weekend! IOGA will be the emcee, Kasino Club is hosting. Kasino Club will provide beer.

    7:30-8:30pm @ the Kasino Club

  • at the Kasino Club

    https://www.goodfriendsmusic.com/

SATURDAY 8/23

  • Meet at the Pettit Lake hatchery.

    *Passport location

  • 10am-5pm - Historic salmon photo display

    11:30am-4pm - Join us at the Stanley Museum for activities including kids costumes, stuff-a-fish, salmon rubbings, and salmon hats. Try being a salmon as you make your way from river to ocean to river again in our Salmon Run obstacle course on the Museum lawn.

    *Passport location

  • Join Sylvia Hamilton from the Sawtooth Fish Hatchery to dissect fish! We’ll go over the main body parts of some local fish and have some hands-on activities. https://stanley.lili.org/event/fish-dissection/

    At the Stanley Community Library

    *Passport Location

  • Vendors, raffles, beer, & more!

    Live music by Hudson Powder Company

    Check in to the IRU booth for passports and festival info.

  • *Passport location

    Meet at the Redfish Visitor Center every hour, on the hour, from 11am - 4pm for a short walking tour with a SIHA Naturalist to see the kokanee spawning in Fishhook Creek.

    Stop by our Discovery Station to learn about the life and challenges sockeye salmon face, do a salmon life cycle self-guided activity, review the number of returning salmon this year and historically, and make rubbings and salmon hats (while supplies last).

    At the Redfish Lake Visitor Center & Gallery

  • Meet at the Stanley museum for provided bus ride to Buckhorn Bridge every hour, on the hour.

    NOTE:Bus capacity is 46 and is first come/first serve.

    *Passport Location

  • Mountain Village Resort Lawn

    *Passport Location at Shoshone-Bannock booth

  • Join Save Our wild Salmon to create salmon and orca art prints! Original Northwest Artists Against Extinction-designed stencils will be available to artists of all ages and abilities to create inspiring advocacy artwork, while learning about salmon’s cultural and ecological importance and the urgent need to protect them.  

    Salmon and orca stencils, as well as rallying phrases like “Save Salmon” and “Free the Snake”, will be available. Participants will also have access to the materials and tools needed to create their own stencil designs and phrases. Bring your passion and inspiration to this event, and take home beautiful salmon and orca advocacy art prints. Hang them on your wall, send them to your elected officials, or use them to speak for the salmon at the next rally you attend. 

    *Consider wearing painting clothes, a smock, or an apron as we will be using (permanent) acrylic paint. 

    *Passport Location at Save Our Wild Salmon booth

  • At the outdoor stage at Mountain Village Resort.

    All passports need to be turned in to the IRU booth by 4:15 in order to redeem raffle tickets.

  • This raffle is separate from the previous drawing. In partnership with Maravia, Cascade River Gear, and Lost Grove Brewing, this is for a custom Big Wave raft. Tickets available throughout the summer, and will be available for purchase at the festival.

  • 3 women’s thousand mile journey to save wild salmon. Free viewing at the Stanley Community Center. Barbarian Brewing will provide beer.

    Attendees will receive one free ticket for film raffle.

    7:30 film raffle drawing

  • Join us at Mountain Village for an afterparty with LIVE MUSIC from Brook Faulk & Neon Moon!

    The Grand Salmon film will be reshown outside at the village for those unable to attend the prior showing.

SUNDAY 8/24

  • led by Carlie Strom of Authentic Yoga at the Mountain Village lawn

  • Tour Sunbeam Dam with Tom Stuart, Salmon Fest founder & Stanley native.

    Meetup location at the Stanley Museum. Roughly 20-30 minute drive to the Sunbeam Dam; provide your own transportation.

    White Otter Outdoor Adventures parking lot will be used for overflow parking.

  • When the Ashes Cool: Fire Ecology & Post-Fire Recovery

    When the ashes cool, what happens to a forest after fires? How do the trees, flowers, salmon, animals, and other species recover? Learn about the impact of last year's Bench Lake and Wapiti Fires on the surrounding ecosystem with fire ecologist and former park ranger Melinda Markin of the Sawtooth Society.

    Meet at the Stanley Lake Trailhead. We will head out to the trees from there.

  • As a postscript to the festival, a final live music performance on the lawn of Redfish Lake Lodge by The Canyon Kids!