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Our annual report provides metrics and updates on progress the organization made towards strategic goals in 2025. Explore Sisters will make its annual presentation to the Sisters City Council during a public meeting on April 22, 2026.

Travel Oregon wants to hear your perspective on tourism across the state as we work to improve the lives of all Oregonians. Travel Oregon conducts biennial resident sentiment studies to provide comprehensive, quantifiable measures of tourism impacts in Oregon, measuring residents’ quality of life, perceptions of how tourism impacts their social, cultural, environmental and economic…

Explore Sisters wants to hear about your local events! We post relevant local tourism-related events to our public events calendar designed to reach our visitors. Please include a description of your event and provide a high resolution landscape oriented photo along with relevant contact information and links for the event. There is no charge to…

In February Explore Sisters made its annual presentation to the Sisters City Council and published a 2024 Annual Report. The annual report provides metrics and updates on progress the organization made towards strategic goals in 2024.

Sisters earned a Dark Sky Community certification from DarkSky International earlier this year. Sisters is only the second certified community in the state of Oregon and one of 55 globally. The designation is the culmination of many years of dark sky advocacy by the Sisters community to help bring awareness of the importance of preserving…

Do you have an idea for a great tourism project with a focus on access and inclusion? Explore Sisters would love to partner with you! Travel Oregon will be accepting applications for their Competitive Grants Program, which supports eligible applicants for projects that contribute to the development and improvement of local economies and communities throughout…

The holidays are a special time in Sisters and we want to invite our guests to share in the experience. If your business or organization is organizing holiday activities or events this season please be sure to let us know. We will be creating a one-stop-shop landing page on ExploreSisters.com and promoting through social media…

We want to hear from you! In partnership with Oregon State University, Explore Sisters is conducting a resident sentiment survey, which will measure residents’ quality of life, perceptions of how tourism impacts wellbeing and overall support for tourism in our community. Resident sentiment surveys enable us to lead with a stewardship approach and help us…

The Sisters Country Vision Implementation Team has published its 2023 Vision Progress Report, highlighting recent collaboration and progress toward longer-term goals for the greater Sisters area. The annual report serves as a testament to the collective efforts of local organizations, agencies, businesses and residents to make Sisters more prosperous, livable, resilient and connected.