The 75th Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is an annual four-day event in Great Smoky Mountains National Park consisting of a variety of wildflower, fauna, and natural history walks, motorcades, photographic tours, art classes, and indoor seminars. Most programs are outdoors in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, while indoor offerings are held in various venues throughout Gatlinburg, TN.
This event features professionally guided walks, exhibits, and other learning opportunities to explore the region's rich natural and cultural resources with over 200 educational hikes on topics like wildflowers, birds, salamanders, fungi, geology, and more. 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.
Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage opening days of registration are always high-demand and active days! In 2025, as part of our fundraising to help offset reduced ticket prices for the next generation (children and students) and increasing costs for the event, we have established the Presale Support Drive. It will open at 10 a.m. Eastern on February 24, prior to normal registration opening 10 a.m. Eastern on March 1, 2025. The Presale Support Drive will only be available to the first 200 people to register and it will feature a greatly increased likelihood of getting your perfect Pilgrimage itinerary! After the Presale Support Drive is over, we will reduce ticket prices to what they have been for the past several years at $150.
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