The Enchanting Spring Wilflower Pilgrimage in the Smokies

Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Gateway to the Smokies is once again host to this fantastic, long held event in the Smokies called the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage. This year this event will be celebrating it's 73rd anniversary.  The local residents hold this event near and dear to their hearts and look forward to it every year.

April 26-29, 2023

The Spring Wild Flower Pilgrimage is an annual nonprofit event featuring professionally guided walks, exhibits, and other learning opportunities to explore the region's rich natural and cultural resources. Pilgrims from more than 40 states and several countries make the pilgrimage each year to learn more about fungi, ferns and fauna. Pilgrims from more than 40 states and several countries make the pilgrimage each year to learn more about fungi, ferns, wildflowers, trees and shrubs, medicinal plants, insects (terrestrial and aquatic), salamanders and snakes, birds, mammals (bats to bears), journaling, art and photography, and park history.

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Enjoy special guest speakers:  (taken from https://www.wildflowerpilgrimage.org/evening-speakers.htmlDr. Christopher Johnson, Senior Instructional Designer (left), and Bengt Carlson, Experiential Learning Coordinator (right), Adjunct Instructors in the Honors Program and Department of Philosophy and Religion from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will reflect on the meaning of a "pilgrimage" and why people become pilgrims.