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Summer 2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of festivals and events ever brings you hundreds of perfect gatherings for fun across 7 mountain states!

Spring 2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of festivals and events ever brings you hundreds of perfect gatherings for fun across 7 mountain states!

2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of events yet brings you 617 perfect gatherings for fun in 7 mountain states!

Insider’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Our contributing editor, a chronic visitor to the park for five decades, offers her insights and tips for a celebration visit.

Whitesburg, Kentucky: Walking the Old L&N

The paved Tanglewood Trail offers just over four miles of level and enjoyable walking with touches of history and friendliness.

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Salem Fair, July 3-14, Salem, Virginia.

Summer 2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of festivals and events ever brings you hundreds of perfect gatherings for fun across 7 mountain states!
Albino Skunk Festival events offer bluegrass, folk, Americana and more in Greer, South Carolina, May 9-11 and October 3-5.

Spring 2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of festivals and events ever brings you hundreds of perfect gatherings for fun across 7 mountain states!
Balloons Over Rockbridge, July 6-7, Lexington, Virginia.

2024 Festivals & Events Guide

Our biggest compendium of events yet brings you 617 perfect gatherings for fun in 7 mountain states!
Ben Morton Overlook is the best spot for perfect sunsets.

Insider’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Our contributing editor, a chronic visitor to the park for five decades, offers her insights and tips for a celebration visit.
The old train tunnel has become a highlight of the trail.

Whitesburg, Kentucky: Walking the Old L&N

The paved Tanglewood Trail offers just over four miles of level and enjoyable walking with touches of history and friendliness.
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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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