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08/19/2025
At this year's 50th Annual Huff N' Puff in Topeka, you can stick around after the Hot Air Balloons take flight for the GLOW! 💖
Head to www.huff-n-puff.org find complete information on the 50th occasion of this special tradition in the heartland! 🌟
08/19/2025
Food Truck Festival in Gage Park is happening in Topeka, August 24th, 2025!
Enjoy the largest, FREE, family fun event in Topeka! It's a celebration of street food! 🥙
🚚LOCAL Food Trucks
🎶LIVE music
🏑ALL AGE activities
📍 Gage Park, Topeka
📆 8/24/25
⏰️ 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
08/19/2025
08/19/2025
The Juno award winning sounds of BRIA SKONBERG are coming to Topeka next month! Join us on the opening day of our 2025 Concert Season for an event you won't forget! 🎫 ➡️ topekajazz.com/tickets
08/19/2025
Yum! We can't wait! 🥰
Looks so delicious we can almost taste it!🍎
Early Bird Tickets for the 2025 Cider Days are available for just $8 at all local Topeka Dillons and the Stormont Vail Events Center!
👉🏻Children 13 and Under Enter Cider Days for FREE.
**Beware of scammers trying to sell counterfeit tickets in the comments below. Please refer to the list above for our official ticket sellers!**
Join us for the 44th Annual Cider Days! 🍎
**Dates:** September 20th & 21st, 2025
**Location:** Stormont Vail Events Center
**Hours:** Saturday 10 AM - 6 PM | Sunday 10 AM - 4 PM
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08/18/2025
Show some love in the comments for the happiest place on earth. Topekans know what this post is about. 😁
If you've ever set foot inside Kansas Children's Discovery Center, you know that this children's museum is where recreation and education converge into wonder! ✨️
Head to KansasDiscovery.org and follow for more information (tickets not available for purchase online. 🤭
08/18/2025
✨ It’s time for another 10 Things to Do This Week in Topeka! ✨
From live music across the city to dog shows, 21+ nights at the zoo, fight nights, car shows, theater productions, food truck festivals, and family-friendly fun, you won’t run out of options! 🤩🐕🎶
Make this week one to remember and find the perfect event for you (and your crew).
While you're at it, tag your crew in the comments below! 👇
Come celebrate Topeka's gems in Gage Park on August 29th and 30th for a weekend of history, culture and wonder! 🎇
🗝️August 29
The Kansas Children's Discovery Center is hosting their FREE day from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Starting at 6:30 p.m. Helen Hocker Theatre is hosting historic presentations on Gage Park
🗝️August 30:
- Topeka Zoo Free Day
- Concerts at the Gage Amphitheater
- Rolling Thunder vehicle exhibit
- Touch-a-Truck
- Free Mini-Train and Carousel rides from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Festivities will include food trucks throughout the park, a Merchant Market and Community Resource Fair from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sunday.🎉
08/18/2025
We love a good mural unveiling! ✨
Be sure to stop by 11th and Topeka to check out the gorgeous new mural!
Big thanks to ArtsConnect Topeka for assisting in this process. 🤩
08/16/2025
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Topeka, Kansas is known not only for being the Capitol of Kansas, but has deep roots in history. From repeatedly finding itself at the Crossroads to Freedom to an Arts District springing to life from grassroots efforts; Topeka is a unique stop on the map and a town that will surprise you.
If you continue reading, you can learn more about the city’s history below, but Topeka isn’t just the epicenter for change. The city has morphed, and is continuing to become a destination with a little of everything. From muralladen buildings to mountain bike and hikingtrails, from local gift shops and businesses to century old trusted companies; Topeka thrives on the ability to adapt and create. You can attend the Midwest’s largest craft beer festival, Tap That; as well as eventslike the Spirit of Kansas, Cruise Nights, Heartland Stampede, Huff & Puff Balloon Rally, and Music & Food Truck Festivals.
Bring the kids for a family fun getaway; even make it educational at one of our many museumsor the Kansas Children’s Discovery Center. Make it a weekend for two, or a friends getaway, and enjoy a little luxury with the Cyrus Hoteland White Linen. Even party it up at one of our breweries and a show at the Jayhawk Theatre or Studio 62. Want to bring the whole fam and relatives? A show at the Topeka Performing Arts Center or Topeka Civic Theater might be right for you, with a stop at Blue Moose, The Pennant, or El Mezcal.
The city is thriving on local fare and trusted good time! No matter which part of the city you end up in, we have something perfect just for you. Yes, even you looking for a day at the spaor a day on the boat; we even have beer yoga for those that take their meditation with a little extra flare.
Downtown Topeka is not only home to the State Capitol, but also to a wide variety of restaurants, hotels, and makers spaces. Evergy Plazanow also calls Downtown home, offering a wide variety of concerts, shows, and more. NOTO Arts District has everything from event venues to art galleries, and an art center where everyone can take classes and become a part of the district alongside Arts Connect. The west side of town is a staple, housing usual favorites, shopping hubs, and local fares scattered throughout. So many neighborhoods make up the city of Topeka and it’s surrounding areas, it takes days to visit it all.
So, with open arms we welcome you to Topeka! Let us help you discover our #TopCity! VisitTopeka.com >>
Topeka History:
Bitter abolitionist and pro-slavery conflict during the 1850s served as a prelude to the Civil War and gave rise to the term "Bleeding Kansas." As Kansas approached statehood, Topekans such as Col. John and Mary Jane Ritchie battled for the abolition of slavery. Ritchie's house became a meeting place for the free-state faction and a station along the Underground Railroad.
After what is widely considered a corrupt election in March 1855, A pro-slavery government was created in Lecompton, Kansas. Fearful that the state might enter the Union as a slave state, anti-slavery supporters gathered in Topeka, in a building now known as Constitution Hall, to draft an anti-slavery constitution for the Kansas territory. For three weeks, 47 delegates from around the state gathered in Constitution Hall and wrote the first of four constitutions for the Kansas territory. Though the constitution was eventually blocked, the building continued as headquarters for the free-state movement, being used as a meeting hall, warehouse for weapons and supplies and as base for the Topeka guard, which protected free-state supporters.
One of the largest railroads in the United States, the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, was chartered by the state of Kansas in 1859, and organized in 1860 by Cyrus K. Holliday. The railroad had a great influence on the settlement of the southwestern United States.
Topeka also was home of the Oliver Brown family, the namesake in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court case that eliminated the "separate but equal" standard in American public schools. Unlike the elementary schools in Topeka at that time, Topeka High School had been integrated since the late 1890s.
The Episcopal Church established the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka in 1860. Billed as the "Wellesley of the West," the college provided a rare opportunity for women to receive an excellent education.
Charles Curtis served at the 31st Vice President of the United States from 1929 to 1933. He was the first Native American VP, the first VP West of the Mississippi, and the only VP from the state of Kansas.
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