Pickers, junkers and antique hunters will scour roadside stops along Highway 127 today through Sunday, Aug. 3-6, looking for bargains during the World’s Longest Yard Sale.
That title’s not bragging when it’s fact – the Highway 127 sale is the longest sale at 690 miles through six states: Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. The majority of the route follows Highway 127 from Addison, Mich., to Chattanooga before picking up the Lookout Mountain Parkway to Gadsden, Ala.
The Highway 127 Yard Sale began in 1987 when Mike Walker, former Fentress County executive in Jamestown, Tenn., planned the event to encourage travelers to bypass interstates in favor of scenic routes that would take them through rural communities and allow them to experience what the small towns had to offer.
The Lookout Mountain Parkway, named by Reader’s Digest as one of America’s most scenic drives, was added to the route a few years after the sale began.
Some of the sale’s main stops locally include the Mountain Top Farm, Picker’s Field and Lone Oak Community Center on Signal Mountain, Hendrick Farm in Dunlap, and “Great Stop” next to Ewtonville Baptist Church in Dunlap.