Orange City Tulip Festival

About the Event

Orange City invites you to our 83rd Tulip Festival in 2024!

Each year at Tulip-time it is Orange City’s good fortune and great pleasure to welcome thousands of visitors from near and far. Join us for a day as you recall the gentle charms of the old world and catch a new glimpse of the old Dutch customs.

What began in 1936 as a small celebration of Orange City’s Dutch heritage has led to over 80 years of what is now known as the Tulip Festival. Our annual celebration occurs every third weekend in May.

The internationally recognized festival features music and dancing by children and adults in authentic Dutch costumes, two daily parades, nightly musical theater, a carnival midway, Dutch delicacies, delicious food, plus thousands of tulips and a dozen replica windmills throughout this charming village.

So do come; join tens of thousands of visitors and Discover the Dutch at a festival that is ever-charming and colorful!

Schedule of Events:

7:00 a.m: Fly-In Breakfast - Sioux County Regional Airport

8:00 a.m: Children’s Art Exhibit

8:00 a.m: Tour de Tulips Bicycle Ride

8:05 a.m: Tulip Festival Road Race

9:00 a.m:

Antique Tractor Show (begins)
Children’s Art Exhibit (opens)
Horse-Drawn Trolley Tours (begin)
Pedicabs (begin)
Private Tours Dutch American Heritage Museum
Stadscentrum (opens)
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park
Vogel Old Mill (opens)

9:30 a.m: Century Home (opens)

10:00 a.m:

Antique Model Tractor Display
ArtBurst (opens)
Carnival Rides (open)
Craft Show (opens)
Quilt and Flower Show (Opens)
De Straatwinkel (opens)
Dutch American Heritage Museum (opens)
Straatmarkt (opens)
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park
Wooden Shoe Carving Demonstrations

10:30 a.m:

Dutch Dozen Performance
Dutch Street Organ

11:00 a.m:

Petting Zoo
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park

11:30 a.m: utch Dozen Performance

12:00 p.m: Fietsen Zangers

1:00 p.m:

Straat Feest, Street Scrubbing, and Volksparade
$5 reserved seating recommended or bring your own lawn chair

3:30 p.m:

Band Awards and Drum Line Performances
Horse-Drawn Trolley Tours
Pedicab Rides

4:00 p.m:

Dutch Dozen Performance
Dutch Street Organ
Tulip Talk in Windmill Park
Wooden Shoe Carving Demonstrations

5:30 p.m: Entertainment in the Street

6:00 p.m: Volksparade

8:00 p.m: Night Show

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