Front Street Maipole – Leavenworth, Washington, USA

Leavenworth once had two Oktoberfests running on the same weekends, and both were called Leavenworth Oktoberfest. The original started here in 1998 with just 400 people and grew to more than 50,000 a year. In 2022 the city brought in a new organizer, so the old team moved their party 21 miles down the road to Wenatchee and kept the name. Some visitors bought tickets to the wrong one.

The tall pole is the Maibaum, or Maipole. Leavenworth has danced around one every May since 1971, and for the festival’s 55th year in 2026 the town put up a brand-new one.

The camera sits on the Rhein Haus, a beer hall that started out in Seattle in 2013 under the name Von Trapp’s. It opened here in 2018, with what it calls the biggest biergarten on Front Street.

Did You Know? Icicle Creek, which runs past town, probably has nothing to do with ice. The name is thought to come from Nasikelt, a local Native word for a narrow canyon.

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