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Kansas Festivals & Events Worth Planning Around
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items No affiliate links here, just the dates we actually circle on the calendar every year, from our own county fair to the ones worth the drive.
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Wabaunsee County's Own
Wamego's Oz Trail Traditions
Flint Hills Signature Events
Wabaunsee County's Own
Our home county's calendar, in order of the year.
A small, genuinely charming antique tractor show that kicks off the local event season every spring.
Spring Crank Up! Tractor Show
Our own county fair, complete with 4-H exhibits from local kids. About as small-town-Kansas as it gets.
Wabaunsee County Fair
Our go-to spot to watch fireworks without fighting a real crowd.
Lake Wabaunsee Fireworks
A local summer night out, right in our own backyard.
HOT ALMA NIGHTS
A proper small-town rodeo to close out the summer.
Eskridge Labor Day Rodeo
Exactly what it sounds like, and exactly as much of a local institution as the name suggests.
WB County Mountain Oyster Fry
Wamego's Oz Trail Traditions
Our neighboring town has built an entire yearly calendar around its Wizard of Oz obsession, and it's genuinely fun to plan around.
Thousands of tulips, 200+ craft vendors, and the unofficial kickoff to spring around here.
Tulip Festival
Wamego's Independence Day celebration, aptly named for having the biggest fireworks display in all of Kansas!
Boomtown
Costume contests, a Toto look-alike contest, and a whole downtown leaning fully into the Oz theme.
OZtoberfest
Wamego's kickoff to the holidays, with train rides, Santa, horse-drawn carriages, and the whole park strung with lights over the water. A good one to fold in right alongside OZtoberfest and Tulip Festival as another reason to make the short drive to ...
Season of Lights
Flint Hills Signature Events
Worth planning a whole day (or weekend) around, not just an afternoon.
A genuinely unique event: the Kansas City Symphony performing live on the open prairie, with the location changing to a different Flint Hills pasture every year.
Symphony in the Flint Hills
The oldest consecutive rodeo in the state, and it's right in our own corner of the Flint Hills.
Flint Hills Rodeo
Giant show kites (including a 600-pound American flag kite) filling the sky over the same farm already on our Kansas favorites list, plus the petting zoo, farm market, and Grain Bin Bar to round out the day. A new one worth watching for.
Flint Hills Sky Kite and Balloon Festival
A free, all-day community celebration in Blue Earth Plaza right outside the Flint Hills Discovery Center. Live music, food trucks, a Taste of Kansas vendor area, and kids' activities, with the Discovery Center itself open to explore alongside it.
Flint Hills Festival
Blue Earth Plaza's tree lighting kickoff, complete with an aerial drone light show, Santa, and free hot chocolate. Nightly lighting displays run through the first week of January, so it's less a one-night event and more a season-long stop worth worki...
MHK Festival of Lights