The entire north Olympic Peninsula area gets involved over the festival weekend! We’ll be posting opportunities for live music, fine arts events, shopping, and outdoor activities as the festival date arrives. 

Welcome to Port Angeles and CrabFest!

LIVE MUSIC

ART, HISTORY AND CULTURE 

The Elwha Klallam Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., displaying traditional and contemporary art from the North Olympic Peninsula. For information, phone 360-417-8545 or visit Elwha.org.

The Carnegie Museum, managed by the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, is located at 205 S. Lincoln Street, just two blocks from the Festival site. Admission is by donation. Exhibits include cultural and historical artifacts related to the Tribe, such as those uncovered from the ancestral village of Tse-whit-zen, and other tribes on the Olympic Peninsula, and a special exhibit chronicling the Elwha River Dam Removal Project, the largest dam removal project in the U.S. history.

The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd., has a 5-acre art park called Webster’s Woods. It’s open daily and free to the public from dawn through sunset.

THEATRE

Port Angeles Community Playhouse, 1235 E. Lauridsen Blvd. For information, phone 360-452-6651.

SHOPPING

Visit The Wharf next to the festival grounds for restaurants, art galleries, and more.

The Port Angeles Farmers Market takes place Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at a special CrabFest-weekend location: Vern Burton Community Center parking lot, 308 E. Fourth Street. Local farmers, artisans and food purveyors offer their goods.