2026 WODD dodgeball tournament set for June 27 in Nashua, Iowa

Cedar View Park gave the 2026 WODD dodgeball tournament a setting that was bigger than a routine calendar stop. The event was listed for Saturday, June 27 at 3:30 p.m. CDT in Nashua, Iowa, and it was publicly posted as a ticketed, registerable event, a sign that the draw was meant to reach players and spectators beyond the local rec hall.

That mattered because the tournament sat inside Water Over the Dam Days, which ran Thursday, June 25 through Sunday, June 28, 2026, with a tropical, Hawaii-themed identity. The festival’s event page said all activities took place at Cedar View Park, right on the lake, unless otherwise noted, putting the dodgeball tournament in the middle of Nashua’s summer showcase rather than on the fringe of it. The listing did not include brackets, team names or a prize structure, so the event was defined less by a title chase than by its place in the town’s June lineup.

The park itself helped explain the pull. Cedar View Park Campground is described by the City of Nashua as the premiere camping destination in Northeast Iowa, with 43 RV sites and 5 tent sites, plus water, 30-amp electricity, showers and other amenities. For visiting teams and traveling families, that turned the dodgeball stop into something more than a same-day in-and-out appearance.

Cedar Lake gives the venue its summer edge. The city says the lake covers 470 acres and is about 9 feet deep, and that waterfront setting shapes the feel of every event staged there. The land for Cedar View Park was transferred to the city in 1913 for use as a public park, which made the site a civic asset long before it became a festival centerpiece.

The history behind the water and the dam makes the setting even more central to Water Over the Dam Days. The dam was originally built in 1916 and renovated in 1989/90, according to Iowa Department of Natural Resources fishery information. Festival history materials say restoration was funded by Nashua residents, businesses, former citizens, relatives, surrounding communities, the state legislature and Iowa Public Service, which ties the celebration to a shared local project rather than a single marquee event.

Water Over the Dam Days is billed as one of the biggest parades in Northeast Iowa, and the dodgeball tournament fit that larger draw. In a niche sport that depends on visible stops, Cedar View Park gave Nashua a place on the summer circuit that looked built to bring people back.