Bavarian Bulletin - August 11,  2026 Edition

The Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce is now hiring for Oktoberfest! This year's festival runs three weekends: October 2-3, 9-10, and 16-17.

Festival Hours

• Friday: 6 PM – Midnight
• Saturday: Noon – Midnight
• Some shifts will start before opening and end after closing.

Positions & Pay
Hourly rate: $20–$25

• Recycle / Compost
• Bussers / Runners
• Gate Monitors
• Ticket Scanners / Wristbands
• Bartenders
• Supervisors
• Ticket Sales

Returning employees are eligible for a wage increase from previous years.

Requirements

• Must be 21 or older
• Full or part-time weekend availability accepted
• Priority scheduling given to those available all three weekends

Training Provided
We'll cover job training, including alcohol training through the Chelan County Liquor Board specific to festivals and events, plus the cost of MAST and Food Handler cards.

How to Apply
Please submit your application so we have your most up-to-date information.

Media Matters: New Pages, Better Search Visibility

Two areas of leavenworth.org just got even better, and both upgrades were built with search visibility in mind — including how AI search tools and chatbots (like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity) find and summarize us.

The new Oktoberfest page now has an even cleaner structure, with clear headings for dates, venues, ticketing, and safety info, each in its own defined section. That structure matters more than ever: search engines and AI tools both favor content that's easy to parse into clear facts, so a page organized this way is more likely to be the source an AI pulls from when someone asks "when is Oktoberfest in Leavenworth" or "what do I need to know before going."

The new recreation pages (leavenworth.org/recreation/) take that same approach further, at a bigger scale. Recreation is now split clearly by season — Summer and Winter — with each activity (hiking, Nordic skiing, tubing, snowshoeing, and more) broken into its own dedicated page with specifics like difficulty, distance, and permit details. That kind of clear, categorized structure helps search engines index us activity-by-activity, and gives AI tools clean, quotable facts to pull when travelers ask things like "best winter activities near Leavenworth" or "easy hikes in Leavenworth WA."

In short: these upgrades don't just look great, they help make sure Leavenworth shows up — accurately — wherever people are searching, human or AI.

And this is only the start. A full website redesign is in the works, with more of these SEO- and AI-friendly upgrades coming sitewide. Stay tuned!

_{* Remember, these are footfalls counted by five camera locations on Front Street. The numbers are NOT individual people counts, those numbers would be lower.}

Oktoberfest 2026 tickets are on sale here: Oktoberfest event page.  

You can still become a sponsor of Oktoberfest, more information can be found here.

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Websites
Leavenworthchamber.org
Leavenworth.org

Our mailing address is:
Leavenworth Chamber of Commerce

PO Box 327
940 Highway 2 Suite B
Leavenworth, WA 98826-0327

If you have questions, please call us at (509)548-5807

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