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ROAN MOUNTAIN â With the Rhododendron Festival just days away, both lanes of the highway leading to the Cloudland Gardens are open, but the plants in the garden arenât quite ready to bloom. A work crew did its part on Tuesday morning, finishing the patching job on the highway from Carvers Gap to the Cloudland Gardens. The crew finished up by lunchtime, collected the traffic warning signs and departed. Long strips of still-hot asphalt lined a long section of the eastern side of the road. Traffic was heavy on the road during the morning, and flagman had to be deployed to alternate traffic on the single open lane. During the afternoon, traffic was able to negotiate both lanes along the entire road. ....
ROAN MOUNTAIN — One of the oldest and most scenic festivals in Northeast Tennessee takes place next weekend when the 74th Rhododendron Festival is held at Roan Mountain State Park. ....
HIGH COUNTRY â After a topsy-turvy year in 2020 that severely affected businesses, especially the entertainment industry, virtually every usual festival hosted in the High Country was forced to suspend activities in the era of COVID-19. Following a difficult year of gathering restrictions and heeding health protocols, light is perhaps seen at the end of the tunnel as the proliferation of vaccines and the reopening of counties and states provide hope for festival venues and activities to resume with some level of normalcy. Traditionally, festivals throughout the High Country are filled with revelers and activities that range from bluegrass and Celtic music to fine arts and symphonies, from hand-created artwork to varieties of performing arts through drama, dance and more. A number of the long-standing festival events look to make their return amid safe guidelines in the summer of 2021. ....
Itâs the 74th festival, marking it as one of the oldest festivals in the region. The Roan Mountain Citizens Club has been putting on the festivals since June 1947. This yearâs event is scheduled June 19 and 20. The festival is always held around the third weekend in June, when the Catawba rhododendron reach their peak bloom in the Cloudland Gardens atop Roan Mountain, which has an elevation above 6,000 feet. Although called a garden, Cloudland is not man-made, as the rhododendron thrives and blankets many acres of mountains in the Appalachians. But the Cloudland Gardens are said to be the largest in the world. Thousands of magenta-pink blossoms erupt when the plants bloom. ....