Orange City Tulip Festival

Orange City, IA · Festival

When: May 20–22, 2027
Where: Downtown Orange City · Orange City · IA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Orange City's Dutch heritage festival has run every third weekend of May since 1936, filling downtown with twice daily Volksparades in traditional costume, a craft show and an antique tractor show. Between fifty and a hundred thousand visitors come to see the tulip plantings across the town.

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