Astoria is a magical place with more bookstores, arcades, ice cream shops, breweries, historic theaters and bridges than make logical sense based on the population size. We have a 100 year old column on top of a hill that serves no practical purpose except to delight people. We have many mysterious hidden pathways and a…
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Employees of the Fort are well-known for their extra-curricular activities. Bartenders, brewers, accountants, managers, and drivers are also artists, woodworkers, designers, writers and farmers. When we’re not creating useful things for Fort George and for ourselves, we’re sometimes doing useful things around Astoria and the North Coast. Fort employees regularly volunteer for local nonprofits and they…
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In 2026, Fort George’s Festival of Dark Arts featured a world-class line-up of stouts from 71 breweries. Dark Beer flowed from 91 taps at 9 pouring locations around the festival grounds in Downtown Astoria. Imagined, planned, set up, and executed by over 350 volunteers, employees, artists, musicians, performers, and friends, Festival of Dark Arts 2026…
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In Astoria, we’re less than an hour from some of the best fishing rivers in the country. Native and hatchery runs of Chinook begin in the spring, with late summer and fall runs of Coho and Chum salmon. Fish counts begin to dwindle by late fall. At this time anglers still braving the blown-out rivers…
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And a New 16oz Lager Series Launches on Astoria Regatta Weekend Astoria Regatta returns this weekend, albeit on a much smaller and safer scale. The oldest and longest running celebration in Oregon took a year off, as most everyone did in 2020. But this community is resilient, and Fort George is doing their best to…
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Saturday, July 13, 2013: The Fort George Lovell Showroom hosts photographer Leigh Oviatt for Astoria’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk. Originally from Bozeman, Montana, Leigh now considers the North Oregon Coast home. Her project, titled Layercake, is the culmination of a year wandering the streets of Portland, searching for faces among the confusing and peeling layers…
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