Events

Known as the “City of Festivals,” Lenexa hosts numerous celebrations and events each year, bringing families and neighbors together while promoting a small-town sense of community as part of a thriving metropolis.

You can find Rain to Recreation staff participating in or hosting many of these festivals, including:

Dumpster Days and E-Waste America dumps between 300 million and 400 million electronic items per year, according to estimates from the EPA and the TakeBack Coalition. Lenexa is teaming up its e-waste and Dumpsters Days events to provide citizens with convenient, frequent and more affordable ways to dispose of unwanted items.

Household Hazardous Waste Day

If you struggle to walk through the pile of old paint cans, harmful chemicals and cleaners in your garage or basement, come to the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event. Most trash collectors won’t accept these materials, but Rain to Recreation and Johnson County’s Stormwater Management Program host a day each fall to get those items out of your house and disposed of properly.

Rain Barrel Parade Artists, craftsmen, designers, architects, citizens and art students are invited to submit designs for a city-wide Rain Barrel Parade. The parade is a public art exhibition that places rain barrels designed and decorated by local artists throughout they city and is part of a new city-wide education campaign, Rainscapes, that promotes water conservation and water quality.
	Tails on the Trails Watery fun for our four-legged friends and their human companions. Swim, check out vendors and information and compete in the pet/owner look-a-like contest.
Waterfest Celebrate it, respect it, learn to protect it. Waterfest is a free event where Lenexa residents to join together to celebrate water. The 11th annual Waterfest is July 31, 2010 at Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park.