Bathtub races honor city’s silly side

By Tori Benavente, Post-Record staff writer

The red bathtubs are hot and ready for this year’s Bathtub Races at Camas Days. The annual race begins at 1 p.m. Saturday, at Fourth Avenue and Franklin Street in downtown Camas.

This annual Camas Days event will pit eight three-member teams from local Camas businesses against each other to see which business will be the bathtub champions of the 2017 Camas Days celebration. One member sits in a bathtub full of cold water and steers, while the other two members push the bathtub to the finish line.

Doug Quinn, who has been announcing the Camas Days parade since 1999, said the bathtub races are not something you see anywhere else.

“I don’t know any other community that would do something as silly as a bathtub race, but Camas does,” Quinn said.

Brent Erickson, executive director of the Camas-Washougal Chamber of Commerce said the annual race is an exciting event — especially considering that people watching from the sidewalks can watch as the bathtub teams get drenched with frigid water while racing down the street.