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Chandler Ostrich Festival

Chandler, AZ · Odd

When

March 12–21, 2027

Where

Tumbleweed Park · Chandler · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Chandler's Chamber of Commerce turns Tumbleweed Park into an ostrich-themed county fair each March, with ostrich races, a carnival midway and live music across two consecutive weekends. The festival nods to Chandler's early-1900s ostrich-ranching boom, when plumes for ladies' hats made the bird the valley's most valuable export. (2027 dates approximate, based on the festival's usual mid-March weekends.)

The history within reach

• Chandler Ostrich Festivalsame spot

  Chandler's Chamber of Commerce turns Tumbleweed Park into an ostrich-themed county fair each March, with ostrich races, a carnival midway and live music across two consecutive weekends.

• Chandler Multicultural Festival2.3 mi

  Chandler's Celebration of Unity festival has brought heritage food, dance, and performances from the city's cultural communities to Dr.

• Gilbert, the hay shipping capital of the world5.9 mi

  Gilbert started as a siding on a rail line built to move alfalfa out of the East Valley, and by the 1920s it was calling itself the hay shipping capital of the world.

• Gilbert High School opens in 1918, when the town shipped alfalfa6.3 mi

  Gilbert Public Schools opened the town's first high school in 1918, when Gilbert was a rail siding that shipped baled alfalfa out of the Salt River Valley.

• ASU turns its old farm into a research park6.4 mi

  Arizona State shut down its agriculture programme in 1979 and was left holding a square mile of farmland in south Tempe.