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Metal Forging Demonstration

Friday, July 15 & Saturday, July 16   Noon to 8 p.m.
Sunday, July 17  10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Bohemia City in Coiner Park
In Cottage Grove’s early days it was the local blacksmith that produced sharp tools to meet farming, mining, logging and transportation needs.
Head to the south (back) of Bohemia City in Coiner Park to [...]

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Pony & Train Rides

Thursday, July 15  at 4 p.m. through Sunday, July 18
Bohemia City in Coiner Park during Festival Hours

No celebration of Cottage Grove’s early history would be complete without honoring the two major forms of transportation in the community’s early days. Wagons, stagecoaches and trains brought people and supplies and carried away local products to distant [...]

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Oregon Aviation Museum

Friday, July 16 & Saturday, July 17
Hours:  10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
2475 Jim Wright Way
(Located next to the Cottage Theatre and across Row River Road from the Village Green Resort.)
Flight… the dream of mankind throughout recorded history became a reality in the 20th century. Oregonians established their place in the history books as [...]

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Cottage Grove Historical Museum

Thursday, July 15 – Sunday, July 18
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
147 ‘H’ Street
Travel back in time by including a visit to the Cottage Grove Museum as part of your Bohemia Mining Days experience this year.
For the past 50+ years, historically minded residents have volunteered countless hours to collect, catalog, and display a wide variety [...]

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Bohemia Gold Mining Museum

Thursday, July 15 & Friday, July 16 – Hours:  1:00  – 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 17 – Hours: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
737 Main Street
The discovery of gold in the Cascade foothills east of Cottage Grove in 1863 soon transformed the small agricultural community into a gold mining boom town.
Located in Cottage Grove’s National [...]

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Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides

Friday, July 16 & Saturday, July 17
2:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Bohemia City in Coiner Park
Celebrating the spirit and determination of our community’s first white settlers who arrived here by wagon, Bohemia Mining Days offers festival visitors the opportunity to hop aboard a traditional wagon and travel back in time to imagine what that [...]

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BMD Victorian High Tea

Thursday, July 15      6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Bohemia City in Coiner Park
Enjoy the tasty experience of a Victorian High Tea and support the Humane Society of Cottage Grove.

Get into the Victorian spirit of the Bohemia Mining Days Festival and dress in period style clothing to maximize your experience.  You’ll be able to take home your [...]

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Native American Exhibition & Demonstrations

Thursday, July 15  -  6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Friday, July 16  -  11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Bohemia City in Coiner Park

Dancing Exhibition, Story Telling and Games are scheduled throughout the day at the following times:  11:00  a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. / 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. / 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. [...]

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Carnival

Thu, July 15  from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Fri-Sat, July 16  – 17  from 10 a.m.  to 10 p.m.
Sunday, July 18  -  10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Bohemia Park:  Corner of 10th Street and Main Street
The Bohemia Mining Days Board of Directors selected  Portland-based Hayworth Family Shows to provide the carnival rides for this year’s festival.
The [...]

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Costume Contest

Saturday, July 17   at  1:00 p.m.
Coiner Park Gazebo
A costume contest has been a feature of Bohemia Mining Days since its inception. Dressing up for BMD in Victorian or western-wear creates a wonderful spirit throughout the community and reminds festival-goers of the fashions of a by-gone era.
Women’s clothes in particular were so restrictive it limited [...]

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