The World's Longest Yard Sale
Welcome to the World's Longest Yard Sale in August on Highway 127 and the Lookout
Mountain Parkway!
It's coming.....
August 5-8, 2010
"I Drove, I Stopped, I
Shopped till I Dropped!
Named by
Alabama's Governor Bob Riley as a Top Ten Event in Alabama!
As Seen on HGTV, in Southern Living,
Country Living, USA Today, Newsweek, The Tonight Show and more!
The World's Longest Yard Sale Details:
Yard Sale Date: August 5-8, 2010
Place: The Lookout Mountain Parkway and the U.S. 127 Corridor
From: Gadsden, Alabama to Hudson, Michigan
**Note - The World's Longest Yard Sale (also known as The 127 Sale)
is a 4-day event. The dates will be determined each year by the First
Thursday of the month of August. The event will take place Thursday
to Sunday for 4 days of yard sale heaven!
**Please drive with caution and
be alert of the others around you. The month of August is usually very warm in the deep
South so pack plenty of water and don't forget the sunscreen. We can't wait to see you!!
Travel more than 675-miles of scenic
beauty and see tons of yard sales. Get started on your journey by traveling the 93- mile
Lookout Mountain Parkway route from Gadsden, Alabama to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the
most "scenic rural America" in the United States. Alabama has more than 1,000
yard sale vendors alone! You will find everything from antiques, collectibles, furniture, dishwares,
fresh garden produce, homemade jams and jellies, food vendors, live
entertainment and so much more. Continue with the yard sale, following the
U.S. 127 Corridor from Chattanooga, TN to Hudson, MI for another 575 miles of yard
sale bargains. When combined, the Lookout Mountain Parkway and the 127
Corridor have had as many as 5,000 vendors lined along the scenic yard sale route in past
years and
the year 2010 promises to be even bigger.
Residents of DeKalb County,
Alabama invite you to spend some time touring the area and enjoying the hospitality of our
people.
Spend the night in one of our
many Bed and Breakfast Inns, State Park or other cabin rentals located in Historic
Mentone and other motels and unique accommodations located within minutes of the yard sale
route. View scenic vistas and majestic waterfalls as you visit the Little River Canyon National Preserve
and DeSoto State Park. See deer and
cattle grazing side by side in rolling hills and farmland. Come travel the
Lookout Mountain Parkway in DeKalb County, Alabama!
"America's most Scenic Shopping Mall!!"
Directions - South to North:
*IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT ROAD CLOSURES*
There is road construction on I-59 in Gadsden. Noccalula Falls Exit
188 on I-59 is CLOSED. If you are traveling North on I-59, you must
take exit 183 and turn right onto Hwy. 431/278 and continue to
Noccalula Road where you will turn left. Follow your signs for the
Lookout Mountain Parkway!
Yard sale begins at the Noccalula Falls
Park in Gadsden, Alabama on top of Lookout Mountain. Follow Tabor Road, across from
Noccalula Falls. Stay on this road and it will become Alabama 176. Follow 176 to
the Dogtown Community and stay straight through the 4-way stop. The road then becomes
DeKalb County 89. Stay on 89 through communities such as Five Points, Fort Payne,
Fischer, DeSoto State Park and on into Mentone, Alabama. From Mentone turn right
onto Alabama 117 and follow into Georgia where it becomes Georgia Road 48. You will stay
straight a short distance before turning left on GA 157, then left on 136, right on 189
then right on 157 again. This carries you directly in front of Rock City where you travel
down Lookout Mountain and pick up TN 27 to the U.S. 127 Corridor for the remainder of the
yard sale where it ends in Hudson, MI. (The road winds around a little in Chattanooga
as you make your way to the 127 Corridor. Follow Ochs Hwy. off of Lookout Mountain to
Tennessee Ave. to Broad St. to Hwy 27 to the U.S. Hwy. 127)
Simply reverse these directions if you
choose to follow the route from North to South. Although the Yard Sale officially goes
from Gadsden to Hudson, feel free to jump on board anywhere in between. Lots of
treasures
and antiques await you from one end to the other and all points in-between.
*Note - The Gadsden to Chattanooga route
is called the Lookout Mountain Parkway and will bear green signs that state this. Reader's
Digest named the Parkway as one of America's most Scenic Drives.
Watch the 2008 Sale on HGTV!
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The Big Mill Antique Mall in Fort Payne is
full of antiques and collectibles just waiting to be discovered. |

The Little River Canyon National Preserve is
the perfect place for fly fishing and enjoying nature, and it is only 5
minutes from the World's Longest Yard Sale route in Fort Payne. |
Lodging:
For lodging and general information
about the World's Longest Yard Sale contact:
| ALABAMA:
DeKalb County Tourist Association
888-805-4740 and 256-845-3957
Gadsden/Etowah Tourism
888-565-0411 and 256-549-0351 GEORGIA:
Dade County Chamber
877-733-3233 and
706-657-4488
TENNESSEE:
Fentress County Chamber
800-327-3945 and 931-879-9948
Originators of the Yard Sale
Pickett County Byrdstown
888-406-4704 and 931-864-7195
Greater Cumberland County
931-484-8444 |
KENTUCKY:
Northern Kentucky
859-578-8800
Anderson County
502-839-5564
Mercer County
859-734-2365
Danville-Boyle County
859-236-2361
Liberty-Casey County
606-787-6463
Russell County
270-866-4333
Tri-City
606-589-5812
Albany-Clinton County
800-874-2611 |
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Pikeville-Bledsoe County
423-447-2791
Sequatchie County - Dunlap
423-949-7608
Hamilton County -
Chattanooga
423-756-2121 |
OHIO:
Defiant County
419-782-7946
Paulding County
419-399-5215
Williams County - Bryan
Chamber
419-636-2247 |
Maps:
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World's Longest Yard Sale Map
(Click on image for a larger map)
Map Courtesy of the
Gadsden Times |

Courtesy of
Fentress County
Chamber of Commerce |
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