Olympia Harbor Days Festival
Fri, Aug 29
|Olympia Waterfront
The Olympia Harbor Days Festival, a free event offered every Labor Day Weekend, is an award winning free and family friendly event that showcases many of the vintage tugboats of the Puget Sound with a walk aboard show at the docks and races in the bay.


Time & Location
Aug 29, 2025, 5:00 PM – Aug 31, 2025, 6:00 PM
Olympia Waterfront, 806 State Ave NE, Olympia, WA 98506, USA
About the event
Olympia Harbor Days
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025 5:00 PM - 9:30 PMSATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 2025 10:00 AM - 7:00 PMSUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2025 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Olympia Harbor Days Festival, a free event offered every Labor Day Weekend, is an award winning free and family friendly event that showcases many of the vintage tugboats of the Puget Sound with a walk aboard show at the docks and races in the bay. Visitors to the event may also find tall ships, steamships, other historic vessels of twentieth century commerce, tribal canoes, and current recreational small watercraft. Harbor cruises on Budd Bay are also offered.
On land, festival attendees enjoy great food, great music, great artisans, plus nautical and marine themed attractions, and hands on activities, including Olympia’s tugboat heritage, tribal history and the working waterfront with Port of Olympia tours. All in all, here are over 300 things to do…