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 8th annual Cookie Crawl and three days of Festival of Trees events.
Twinkle also includes the parade downtown and community tree lighting ceremony, 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; the 4-H Christmas Bazaar, organized by OSU Extension Baker Co. 4-H Oregon, and a brand-new event - the Geiser Grand Christmas Open House & Palm Court Tree Lighting, at the Geiser Grand Hotel.
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 three years of stewardship, we have awarded over $100,000 to support 45 projects to benefit our community.
Grant Applications were open from July 31-September 1, 2026 for 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 met in September 2026 to select the awardees. Our 2026 awardees are: Baker Girls Travel Teams - 7th & 8th Grade, Baker Band Booster Club, Baker City Backpack Program, Baker City Rotary Club, Baker County Community Literacy Coalition, Baker Relief Nursery, Best Friends of Baker, CASA of Eastern Oregon, Crossroads Carnegie Art Center, Catholic Daughters of St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre, Friends of Baker Heritage Museum, Powder River Choir, Powder River Music Revue, Baker County Little League, Baker Loves Bikes, Community Connection of NE Oregon, Rachel Pregnancy Center, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #3048 (Anthony Lakes Post).
