Twinkle in Time
Baker City Downtown presents Twinkle in Time, a weekend-long suite of events and activities to launch the beginning of the holiday season! Twinkle in Time includes BCD’s 7th annual Cookie Crawl and three days of Festival of Trees events. BCD took stewardship of the event in 2023 with the blessing of the Saint Alphonsus Foundation (the former event host).
Twinkle also includes the Twilight Jubilee (light parade downtown and community tree lighting ceremony in Court Plaza), organized by the Baker County Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau; Make-and-Take holiday activities, organized by Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Inc; Pictures with Santa & Letters to Santa, organized by the Baker City Kiwanis; as well as the 4-H Holiday Bazaar, organized by OSU Extension Baker Co. 4-H Oregon.
Baker City Downtown is pleased to serve Baker by preserving and enhancing the vitality and character of our community through Festival of Trees. Under BCD’s stewardship, Festival of Trees is restored and reinvigorated to its full, multi-day event to bring the community together in celebration while also raising funds to support projects from multiple local organizations. Over the last two years of stewardship, we have awarded over $65,000 to support 27 projects to benefit our community.
Grant Applications are open from July 21-August 8, 2025 from organizations and groups throughout Baker County to share in the proceeds from Festival of Trees through a grant process. The Festival of Trees Community Grant Committee will meet in August 2025 to select the awardees. We will announce the grant recipients in September.
