The World’s Longest Yard Sale Returns To Kentucky for 35th Year – LEO Weekly

The annual occasion stretches 690 miles alongside the 127 hall from Alabama to Michigan — and proper by means of Covington and Cincinnati.

This weekend will likely be a treasure hunter’s paradise because the World’s Longest Yard Sale returns for its thirty fifth yr.

The annual occasion, also referred to as the “127 Yard Sale,” stretches 690 miles alongside the 127 hall from Gadsden, Alabama as much as Addison, Michigan — and proper by means of Covington and Cincinnati.

From Aug. 4-7, greater than 2,000 distributors will likely be arrange alongside roadsides, in RV parks and campgrounds, in vintage malls and in entrance yards to promote something and every part alongside the route, which matches by means of Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio and Kentucky.

Based on the 127 Yard Sale web site, the occasion started in 1987 when a county government in Jamestown, Tennessee “deliberate the occasion to encourage vacationers to bypass interstate highways equivalent to I-40 and I-75 in favor of scenic routes that may take them by means of rural communities and permit them to expertise what the small cities and cities needed to supply.”

127yardsale.com has an inventory of main vendor stops, together with Coated Bridge Vintage Mall in Mount Wholesome. However native neighborhoods are additionally internet hosting their very own 127-centric yard gross sales.

MainStrasse in Covington is internet hosting a yard sale pop-up from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 6 and seven. Distributors will likely be arrange alongside Sixth Road. Get extra information concerning the MainStrasse yard sale at fb.

The Northside Summer season Market can also be happening this weekend. There will likely be yard gross sales unfold alongside Hamilton Avenue from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 6 alongside Hamilton Avenue. Get extra information concerning the Northside Summer season Market at northsidesummermarket.

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