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Jun.
12
This northeast Iowa community has celebrated its namesake fruit with this festival for decades. Events include a parade, live entertainment, food, tractor pull, carnival rides, and activities centered on the strawberry harvest season in the rolling hills of the Upper Mississippi River region.
Jun.
13
Held on the grounds of the Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, this outdoor arts festival showcases regional and national artists displaying original paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, and jewelry alongside live music, food vendors, and family activities.
Jun.
17
Held along the Des Moines River in southeast Iowa, this multi-day event features competitive hot air balloon racing, mass ascensions, a nighttime balloon glow, live entertainment, food vendors, and family activities. Known as the hometown of the tv show MASH character Corporal Radar O'Reilly, the community draws balloon pilots and spectators from across the Midwest each summer.
Jun.
17
Known as the Ice Cream Capital of the World, Le Mars is home to Wells Enterprises, maker of Blue Bunny ice cream and the largest single-site ice cream producer in the country. The annual festival celebrates that dairy heritage with ice cream eating contests, a parade, live entertainment, a vendor market, a carnival, and family activities.
Jun.
18
Held annually since 1958, this 68th edition of the Rose Festival celebrates the community's historic Rose Garden and its title as the Rose Capital of Iowa. The four-day event features a Grand Parade, a Kansas City Barbeque Society competition that is the longest-running KCBS event in Iowa, a 5K fun run, a golf fundraiser, a Rose Queen pageant, an Extreme Fun Zone, a Main Street market, craft vendors, food vendors, and tours of the rose gardens during peak bloom season.
Jun.
21
Snake Alley, built in 1894 with brick switchback curves descending a steep bluff, serves as the backdrop for this juried outdoor art fair. Artists display and sell original paintings, sculpture, photography, and handcrafted work along the historic street and surrounding blocks in the Heritage Hill neighborhood.
Jul.
23
Situated in the bluff country of the Upper Iowa River valley, this area was heavily settled by Norwegian immigrants in the 19th century. The annual festival celebrates that heritage with traditional folk music, authentic Scandinavian cuisine, cultural demonstrations, craft vendors, and guided tours of the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, which holds one of the most extensive collections of Norwegian-American artifacts and folk art in the world.
