Event Category: Children & Family

  • Heartland Light Display

    Heartland Light Display

    Enjoy this festive holiday light display with a grand total of 178,566 lights! Remember lights are on from 5-10pm every night until January 3rd so come back & enjoy them again & again. For the rest of the season you can pull up the main driveway under the rainbow arch & turn around in the…

  • Lueders Light Display

    Lueders Light Display

    We at Lueders Ridiculous X-Mas Lights are doing a computerized light show, we have increased our channel count and added many more lights now we have 200,000+ lights. We hope you will come to enjoy it as much as we enjoy presenting it. Be sure to tune you radio to 97.5 FM. Most of all…

  • University of Okoboji Oktoberfest

    University of Okoboji Oktoberfest

    Join us Saturday, September 27th for the 34th year of University of Okoboji Oktoberfest fun brought to you by the Iowa Great Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce. This fun fall festival kicks off with a bike ride in the morning around the beautiful waters of Lake Minnewashta and West Lake Okoboji and is followed by…

  • Fireworks Over West Lake Okoboji

    Fireworks Over West Lake Okoboji

    Join us for fireworks Over West Lake Okoboji every weekend throughout the summer following the concert on Preservation Plaza.

  • 4th of July Flea Market – Treasure Village

    4th of July Flea Market – Treasure Village

    The annual 4th of July Flea Market will be held July 4-6 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Treasure Village at Lake Okoboji, IA.  They will offer a wide variety of handy, decorative, delicious, wearable, or collectible items. A concessions trailer will offer a delicious menu for meals or snacks while ice cream is available…

  • Memorial Day Flea Market

    Memorial Day Flea Market

    The annual Memorial Day Flea Market will be held May 24-26 on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at Treasure Village at Lake Okoboji, IA.  They will offer a wide variety of handy, decorative, delicious, wearable, or collectible items. A concessions trailer will offer a delicious menu for meals or snacks while ice cream is available from…

  • Walleye Weekend

    Walleye Weekend

    Each year the Iowa Great Lakes Area kicks off walleye season with the Iowa Great Lakes Area Walleye Weekend tournament put on by the Iowa Great Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce. Ten walleye are tagged and released in to the chain of Iowa Great Lakes. Starting at midnight on Saturday, May 2nd you can cast…

  • Vintage Okoboji Ice Drags

    Vintage Okoboji Ice Drags

    Join us for this annual event on East Lake Okoboji!  Vintage snowmobiles from around the midwest gather to race down a four lane 500ft track on East Lake Okoboji in front of the The Ritz in Arnolds Park.  Racing is open and free to the general public to watch. Co-Director Chris Duncan says, they’re busy…

  • 4th of July Fireworks

    4th of July Fireworks

    There’s something special about celebrating our Nation’s Independence Day in Okoboji, Iowa with a beautiful fireworks display over West Lake Okoboji.  Families have gathered together for this tradition in Okoboji for generations to watch the fireworks from a boat or along multiple vantage points from the shoreline, including from Preservation Plaza in Arnolds Park.  They…

  • University of Okoboji Vettes in the Park

    University of Okoboji Vettes in the Park

    Vette’s in the Park is Iowa’s largest Corvette Event, held every year on the last weekend of July in beautiful Okoboji Iowa (typically around 100 new and classic Corvettes). Saturday car show in the Park main-street and greenspace 8am to 2:15pm. There is a free outdoor greenspace concert Saturday night by the original rhythm section…