Lichtenvoorde holds a flower parade (bloemencorso) every September at the start of its annual festival.

The parade features floats covered in flowers (usually dahlias) in imaginative designs depicting a variety of themes.

Its inhabitants are known colloquially as keienslöppers (boulder draggers) due to a historic event.

On 15 March 1874, 99 of the town's shoemakers dragged a 20 ton boulder a distance of around four kilometres to the marketplace to serve as a centerpiece for commemoration of King William III's silver jubilee, after 25 years on the country's throne.

The boulder remains there to this day, topped by a stone lion holding the town's coat of arms.