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06/18/2026

The You Found It! Festival has spent the last two months turning Eureka into a treasure map. On Saturday, it wraps with one last stop, and Eureka gets a little more colorful.

Come discover "Moderne Art," a brand-new mural by Matthew Oliveri painted between the Morris Graves Museum of Art and the Eureka Theater. Saturday, June 20 from 5:30 to 7pm, with tunes from DJ Sovernt and break dancing lessons from the Humboldt Rockers Crew. Meet the artist in person and hear what inspired this addition to the streets. Then stick around after for a screening of Purple Rain at the Eureka Theater.

Since April, the festival has scattered ten free events across the city: mural unveilings, walking tours, a puppet pageant, an audio tour, concerts. This is the finale, and a fitting one, given how much new public art Eureka has gained along the way.

📍 Between the Morris Graves Museum of Art & the Eureka Theater, F Street, Eureka | Saturday June 20, 5:30–7pm | Free | eurekaculturalarts.org



You can now walk or bike from Eureka to Arcata entirely along the bay, and it's one of the best ways to see this stretch...
06/16/2026

You can now walk or bike from Eureka to Arcata entirely along the bay, and it's one of the best ways to see this stretch of coast.

The Humboldt Bay Trail was completed in 2025, linking nearly 15 miles of paved, car-free path from central Arcata down to the south end of Eureka. The Eureka section, the Waterfront Trail, runs about 6.5 miles on its own, from the Elk River area up to Tydd Street, tracing the shoreline past salt marsh, sand dunes, and willow patches. A highlight is the boardwalk that crosses the marsh behind Blue Ox Millworks, with open views of the bay, the slough, and the mountains beyond. Interpretive signs along the way fill in the natural and cultural history as you go.

It's flat, paved, and ADA-accessible, which makes it easy for just about anyone: walkers, cyclists, families with strollers, skaters. Start in Old Town and head out along the water, rent a bike if you didn't bring one, or just walk a stretch and turn back whenever. Few places put you this close to the bay for this long.

📍 Eureka Waterfront Trail, Old Town to Elk River | Open daily, free | humboldtbaytrail.info

Black Humboldt, the Eureka chapter of the NAACP, and Humboldt's Black community present this year's Juneteenth Cultural ...
06/12/2026

Black Humboldt, the Eureka chapter of the NAACP, and Humboldt's Black community present this year's Juneteenth Cultural Festival, June 18–22, under the theme "Honoring the Past to Seed the Future." Juneteenth marks the moment in 1865 when news of freedom reached enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, and the week is held as both remembrance and renewal, a celebration of Black life, creativity, and leadership.

Here's what's happening in Eureka:

Friday, June 19 brings a Juneteenth Hip Hop takeover of the Friday Night Market in Old Town starting at 5:30pm, complete with a kids' zone, followed by a Juneteenth Punk Show at the Savage Henry Comedy Club at 7pm.

Saturday, June 20 is the centerpiece: the Juneteenth Day Festival at Halvorsen Park from noon, a welcoming, multi-zone gathering with a Kids' Zone, a Hip Hop Zone, a Black & Green Zone, food sovereignty and land-based learning, a vendor village, a community mural wall, a beer and wine garden, and more.

Sunday, June 21 closes the Eureka events with a Black Brunch & Ball at Synapsis at 11am, featuring drag and ballroom performances alongside a Mother's Cooking brunch.

All open to everyone. The full week's lineup across Humboldt is on the Black Humboldt site.

📍 Halvorsen Park & various Old Town locations, Eureka | June 19–21 | blackhumboldt.com |

Thursday evenings on the Eureka waterfront just got a lot more fun.The Eureka Summer Concert Series kicks off tonight at...
06/11/2026

Thursday evenings on the Eureka waterfront just got a lot more fun.

The Eureka Summer Concert Series kicks off tonight at Madaket Plaza, running every Thursday from 6 to 8pm for ten weeks. Local and traveling bands, the bay as a backdrop, food trucks on hand, and room to dance. It's free and family-friendly. Bring a chair, grab dinner from one of the trucks, and settle in.

Tonight it's the Fargo Brothers playing rhythm and blues. The weeks ahead bring 90s hits, 80s hits, classic rock, an Eagles tribute, country, Cajun zydeco, and more, all the way through August 13. It runs all summer, so it's an easy evening to fold into a visit whenever you're in town.

📍 Madaket Plaza, Eureka waterfront | Thursdays 6–8pm through Aug 13 | Free | eurekamainstreet.org

Planning a summer trip to the Redwood Coast? The 4th of July is a good weekend to build around.This year the holiday lan...
06/10/2026

Planning a summer trip to the Redwood Coast? The 4th of July is a good weekend to build around.

This year the holiday lands on a Saturday, which makes for an easy long weekend. Eureka's Old Town Street Fair takes over several blocks of 2nd Street with food, local vendors, live music, classic cars, and kids' activities, and the day ends with fireworks over Humboldt Bay after dark, all against a backdrop of Victorian architecture and the working waterfront.

There's plenty nearby to round out a few days: the redwoods, the coastline, a harbor cruise, a walk along the Waterfront Trail. Lodging fills up for the holiday weekend, so book sooner than later if you're thinking about coming up.
More on this year's programming as it firms up. For now, save the date.

📍 Old Town Eureka, 2nd Street | Saturday, July 4 | Free | visiteureka.com

Salsa one Sunday, soul the next, country the one after that. The Humboldt Botanical Garden's Summer Music Series is back...
06/09/2026

Salsa one Sunday, soul the next, country the one after that. The Humboldt Botanical Garden's Summer Music Series is back.

Every Sunday from 1 to 3pm through the end of August, the lawn just south of Eureka becomes a stage for local and regional bands. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair, pick up food and a drink from the on-site vendors or pack your own picnic, and settle in surrounded by 44.5 acres of gardens with views over the Eel River Valley.

This Sunday, June 14, it's Irie Rockerz. The weeks ahead bring Band O Loko on June 21 and Anna and the Situation on June 28, with the series running all the way to Dead On on August 30. Admission for visitors from outside Humboldt runs $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, free for ages 18 and under. Since it runs all summer, it's easy to catch whenever you're in town. The garden sits right off Highway 101 at the College of the Redwoods exit.

📍 Humboldt Botanical Garden, 7707 Tompkins Hill Rd, Eureka | Sundays 1–3pm through Aug 30 | hbgf.org |

There's one more weekend to step inside a working Humboldt artist's studio.North Coast Open Studios is in its 26th year,...
06/08/2026

There's one more weekend to step inside a working Humboldt artist's studio.

North Coast Open Studios is in its 26th year, and the second weekend runs June 13 and 14, 10am to 5pm. Around 150 local artists across Humboldt open their actual workspaces to the public for free: painters, potters, printmakers, glassblowers, jewelers, photographers, puppet makers. You watch the work happen, talk with the makers, and can buy pieces straight from the people who made them, though there's no pressure to.

A lot of the studios are right here in Eureka, so it's easy to build a self-guided afternoon around it. Pick up a printed guidebook at the Ink People's office at 627 3rd Street in Old Town, grab one at participating galleries around town, or download the map online, then chart your own route.

📍 Studios across Humboldt County | June 13–14, 10am–5pm | Free | northcoastopenstudios.com |

📸 featuring Artemio Jimenez in his new Eureka stained glass studio, Nicolette Reinsmith in her Eureka painting studio, Mary Ann Testagrossa in her Eureka printmaking and jewelry studio, COS coordinator and participating artist Monica Topping-Adams of Rock Chick Designs, and Christopher Grimes in his Eureka painting studio, See more artists on the North Coast Open Studios Instagram page!

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