The Great Oregon Steamup

04/10/2026

Here's your chance to become a volunteer at Powerland Heritage Park, named "Best Place to Volunteer" in the 2025 Best of the Willamette Valley Awards!

P.S. Did you know that it takes HUNDREDS of volunteers to put on The Great Oregon Steam-Up?

03/31/2026

🏆 The Great Oregon Steam-Up has been named Best Annual Event in the Best of the Willamette Valley Awards four years in a row! With your help, we’d love to make it five! 🚂✨

This event is a tradition for so many families and visitors, and it would mean so much to have your support once again.

Voting is quick and easy:
✅ Go to https://www.votebowv.com/powerland
✅ Click all four boxes (including Best Annual Event)
✅ Click Submit Ballot

Every vote helps us continue celebrating the history, excitement, and unforgettable experience that make the Great Oregon Steam-Up so special.

If you love seeing the engines roar to life, the tractors roll, and history come alive, please take a moment to vote and share this post with others. You can vote DAILY until April 3!

Thank you for helping us keep the steam alive! 🚂❤️ (see what we did there?) :)

Vote once per day through April 3.

03/06/2026

Did you know that it takes hundreds of volunteers to put on The Great Oregon Steam-Up every year? And most of those volunteers also work at one of the 14 museums at Powerland.

This year, Powerland Heritage Park is holding its first ever Powerland Volunteer Faire to celebrate its "Best Place to Volunteer" win in the Best of the Willamette Valley Awards. It also gives you the opportunity to match your passion with a great volunteer opportunity! Join us April 11 from 10-2pm at Powerland Heritage Park!

🚂 YOUR DREAM VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY IS WAITING FOR YOU! 🚂

Have you ever wanted to restore a vintage car? Drive a steam traction engine? Help build a massive model railroad? Work on a historic trolley? Now's your chance!

Powerland Heritage Park, your 2025 "Best Place to Volunteer" in the Willamette Valley, is hosting our very first Volunteer Faire on April 11th, and we want YOU there!

📅 Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026
⏰ Time: 10am – 2pm
📍 Powerland Heritage Park | 3995 Brooklake Rd NE, Brooks, OR 97303
🅿️ Parking & admission: FREE!

All 14 of our incredible museums will be under one roof inside the Northwest Vintage Car & Motorcycle Museum, each with its own table and team ready to match you with your perfect opportunity. Some enthusiastic guests may even score an exclusive behind-the-scenes museum tour.

Whether you're passionate about history, mechanical restoration, working with families, creating events, or driving vintage equipment, there's a place for you here.

🔧 Restore & preserve vintage equipment
🚜 Get your hands on iconic vintage tractors
🚃 Learn to operate a real steam traction engine or trolley car
🚂 Drive and work with 1/8th scale trains
🏎️ Work on vintage cars & motorcycles
🎉 Help create unforgettable events..and SO much more.

This is a free, no-pressure event. Just come curious, and leave inspired. There's something for everyone! Add it to your calendar today!

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1997356711217182

👉 Tag a friend who needs a new passion project!

02/04/2026

A great event!!

10/22/2025

Powerland Halloween is only one of two events at Powerland Heritage Park where you can RIDE behind a STEAM TRACTION ENGINE (the other is STEAM'd Up for Kids). FINAL WEEKEND!

08/06/2025

To our incredible Steam-Up family, THANK YOU! Your passion for history and family fun is what makes The Great Oregon Steam-Up the "Best Annual Event" in the Willamette Valley. We couldn't do it without you!

Believe it or not, the wheels are already turning for the 56th Annual event, and your voice is critical in that process. We want to know what you loved, what you’d like to see more of, and how we can make your experience even more memorable.

Please help us build the future of Steam-Up by answering six quick questions. It takes only a couple of minutes!

Share your feedback here: https://ivlv.me/hBior

Let's power history, together!

Did you attend the 2025 Great Oregon Steam-Up event? If so, we want to hear your opinion of the event! Please take a moment to answer six quick questions for us. Thanks!

08/03/2025

The first three days of The Great Oregon Steam-Up have been INCREDIBLE thanks to the amazing visitors, vendors, and volunteers. Today, August 3, is the last day for 2025, and the weather is absolutely PERFECT (high of 77). What better way to enjoy such outstanding weather than at The Great Oregon Steam-Up?! We'll see you soon!

08/01/2025

This is it! The FINAL weekend this year for The Great Oregon Steam-Up! And the weather is GREAT! We look forward to seeing you here!

FINAL WEEKEND: August 2-3 at Powerland Heritage Park (I-5, Exit 263)

07/24/2025

The Great Oregon Steam-Up is almost here! To help you plan in advance, we are including the Schedule of Events and park map below. We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

07/09/2025

To our Steam-Up family,

You're the ones who make this event the "Best in the Willamette Valley!" You know the feeling: The roar of the engines, the smell of steam and sawdust, and the pride of seeing our history pass into the hands of a new generation.

We were looking back at footage from last year's event and had to share. This video is a wonderful reminder of the community and passion that we all bring to Powerland Heritage Park every summer. It's a testament to what we build, together.

While this captures the spirit we all love, we're also focused on making our upcoming 55th anniversary the most memorable yet. Get ready for some amazing new additions this year!

Let's make 2025 another one for the history books. 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞!

Get your tickets for July 26-27 & August 2-3 here: https://tinyurl.com/55steamup