450-Mile Outdoor Festival

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450-Mile Outdoor Festival

By: © Nelson Taylor 2012

This event is original because it doesn't exist just in Covington, KY. It starts there and ends 450 miles away in Gadsden, AL. The route is the US Highway 127 Corridor and the Lookout Mountain Parkway. And it isn't really a festival. It's more like the World's Largest Yard Sale, taking place for a long weekend every mid-August.

Some 100,000 people stop and browse through the seemingly endless array of junk. The tourism departments for Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee all get together to pull this off. Why? They want the rest of the world to witness the historic, back-road towns of the south -- and, of course, to increase their revenue. It's all a ploy to rob rich folks blind.

450-Mile Outdoor Festival - When, Where and More Info Please

When: August every year
Where: Covington, KY, U.S.A.
More Info Please: For more info call 800/327-3945 or visit www.kentuckytourism.com.
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America Bizarro

The above snippet is just one of a collection of 240 off-beat articles on 2camels from Nelson Taylor's wonderful America Bizarro.

America Bizarro is a unique travel guide that celebrates humorously interesting, pop-culture kitschy and off-the-map odd festivals, out-of-the-way gatherings, kooky conventions, conferences and contests throughout the United States.

America Bizarro by Nelson Taylor

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