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Oregon Coast Town Celebrates 25 Years of Lincoln City Glass Floats - Special Drops Coming

Published 04/03/25 at 5:45 a.m.
By Oregon Coast Beach Connection Staff


(Lincoln City, Oregon) – Those who love looking for those glass floats and even those just like them a lot are going to love April 26 in Lincoln City. That's the day the central Oregon coast town celebrates 25 years of the extremely popular Finders Keepers program, featuring live music, local vendors and lots of glass floats created by local artists.

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This also heralds a host of new special glass float drops in the coming months.

It's a live, in-person event on that Saturday, going from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Taft Waterfront Park. The event is free.

“Festival attendees will have the opportunity to meet some of the talented glass artists behind the magic, shop unique pieces from local vendors, snag a commemorative glass coin, as well as enjoy live music provided by Zuhg Life Presents,” said the Lincoln City Visitors Bureau – known as Explore Lincoln City.

It's a landmark anniversary, ELC said, and the quarter-century-old glass float program was a landmark for Lincoln City when it started back in the winter of '99 and 2000.

How did Finders Keepers start? See Lincoln City Celebrates How It Started. At least a couple of artists came up with the idea in '97, and then in the '99-2000 season, then-president of the visitors bureau, Jennifer Sears, made it an official winter event.

By 2001 it met with rave reviews with some local businesses saying it was the best thing to hit Lincoln City, driving plenty of new folks to town in the dead of winter.

There are other ways you can celebrate the Finders Keepers glass floats, and some ways allow you to win cool new stuff.

Indeed, if you find a glass float and register it in 2025, you could win some specials commemorative coins. Really special Oregon coast items, actually.

“This year, anyone who finds and registers a 2025 Finders Keepers float will be eligible to receive a commemorative glass coin,” said ELC. “Upon registering a 2025 float, the coin will be mailed to the address provided during registration.”

Other in-person events happen through this year and more special coins will be distributed there.

So what are the upcoming 2025 special glass float drops in Lincoln City?

ELC said:

April 19-22, 2025: Earth Day: 50 Earth Day floats
April 24-27, 2025: Dark Sky: 30 floats
May 9-11, 2025: Mother’s Day: 50 floats
June 13-15, 2025: Father’s Day: 50 floats
June 20-21, 2025: Casino Anniversary: 30 floats
June 21-22, 2025: Summer Kite: 10 floats
Aug 30-Sept 1, 2025: Ocean Conservation: 40 floats

See more at the Explore Lincoln City page

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Andre' GW Hagestedt is editor, owner and primary photographer / videographer of Oregon Coast Beach Connection, an online publication that sees over 1 million pageviews per month. He is also author of several books about the coast.

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