Clear Lake Kite Festival 2025. This is where you'll find the color the wind kite festival, which takes over the frozen clear lake and turns it into a kaleidoscope of beauty as a collection of kites in every color and shape imaginable take to the sky. It’s 115 miles north of des moines if.

Here’s what you need to know: Although the event technically starts at 11 am, i have arrived as early as 9am on prior years and found that a significant number of kites.