What is an Open Streets event?

Streets Alive is a FUN event promoting community engagement and active transportation so that children, young and old, can freely walk, bike, play or share food, music and art with their neighbors.

“When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world.” — John Lennon.

So that all kids from 8-80 years old can ride, we'll install a pop-up protected bikeway around 12th and 13th Streets and provide protected bike travel through the neighborhood streets in the eastern Heights and along Taylor from 13th St. to Friendship Park.

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” — John Muir

Walking is the best way to explore, say hi to neighbors and see the hidden details of the hood. We'll install pop-up crosswalks across 12th & 13th to enable safe passage between east and west Heights.

1. “Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith Richards

With neighborhood streets opened to pedestrians and cyclists, it's the perfect time to introduce Porchfest to Hood River. Home owners host their favorite local musician or band on their porch, front or back yard and neighbors can follow their ears to their favorite style.

“Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up” – Pablo Picasso

We want to see more street art in the Heights so we'll work with kiddos to create temporary intersection murals or building owners that want a mural on the side of their building.

"Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go." -Anthony Bourdain

Between the great food off 12th & 13th, a food truck at Wilson Park and potluck picnics, you'll have one happy stomach.