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Spring 2025 Festivals & Events Guide

For every weekend for the rest of the year, there’s a great excursion awaiting, with a perfect event built in.

2025 Festivals & Events Guide

For every weekend for the rest of the year, there’s a great excursion awaiting, with a perfect event built in.

Clay Morris, Forager

The overarching goal for this West Virginia native is “to get our region’s wild foods into the hands of chefs and back into the hands of people who live here.”

Listening to the Animals

A chance encounter with an alpaca transformed Lee Rankin’s life.

Greening the Mountains: Saved Spaces

Across the seven-state mountain region, parks are being expanded, lands preserved, rivers protected, mining areas reclaimed and much more.

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Rhinestone Fest, for the Love of Dolly, June 6-7, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Spring 2025 Festivals & Events Guide

For every weekend for the rest of the year, there’s a great excursion awaiting, with a perfect event built in.
Celebrate warmer days with concerts, beer, wine, kids activities and more on May 24 at ValleyFest.

2025 Festivals & Events Guide

For every weekend for the rest of the year, there’s a great excursion awaiting, with a perfect event built in.
Clay Morris says garlic mustard excels as a pesto.

Clay Morris, Forager

The overarching goal for this West Virginia native is “to get our region’s wild foods into the hands of chefs and back into the hands of people who live here.”
Apple Hill Farm offers great views as well as tours, socks, gloves and honey from on-site beehives.

Listening to the Animals

A chance encounter with an alpaca transformed Lee Rankin’s life.
Virginia’s Clinch River will host several park sites along its banks. The Sugar Hill section is open.

Greening the Mountains: Saved Spaces

Across the seven-state mountain region, parks are being expanded, lands preserved, rivers protected, mining areas reclaimed and much more.
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At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

June 29, 2026
©Duncan Seaman
Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

June 29, 2026
Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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