📆 The Best Things To Do This Month In Columbus

Plus: 🍄 It’s Almost Morel Mushroom Season!

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Chelsea Wiley
March 06, 2026

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If you’ve been waiting for a good excuse to get out of the house, March is delivering. The city’s calendar is filling up with parades, performances, markets and plenty of other ways to spend a fun day in Columbus. Whether you’re looking for something low-key or a reason to stay out a little later, there’s a lot happening around town this month. Here are a few events worth adding to your plans.

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Headlines 📰 

🚌 What should West Broad Street look like in the future? Hilltop residents packed a community meeting this week to weigh in on transit, development and how it might reshape the neighborhood. (NBC4)

👏 Freed from enslavement at 24, a remarkable man arrived in Ohio with just 50 cents and went on to become one of Zanesville’s most successful entrepreneurs. Now, the community hopes to honor Nelson T. Gant with a statue, and share his incredible story. (WOSU)

🦁 Looking for fun ways to keep the kids busy this spring? From baby animals at the zoo to new exhibits at COSI, here’s what’s new at some of Columbus’ favorite family spots. (Columbus Monthly)

🌦️ Weather: 75 and partly sunny, with early morning fog and a chance of showers and thunderstorms.

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Explore Columbus through a new lens by checking out the arts-focused event calendar from Art Makes Columbus. Discover the events that bring our community together and experience art made authentically. For more info, head over to columbusmakesart.com.

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