# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Mountain Monarch Festival
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Event Description**: Join in the celebration of the migration of our endangered Monarch Butterflies at the 3rd Annual Mountain Monarch Festival at Gorges State Park! 

This event will feature an exciting lineup of activities including:
-Monarch Migration Programming
-Monarch Tagging & Release
-Monarch Hike
-Food Trucks
-Keynote Speaker
-Native Plants
-Local Vendor Booths
-Local and Student Artists
-Kid's Crafts & Activities
-Face Painting

This FREE event is sponsored by Gorges State Park, Friends of Gorges State Park, NC Department of Commerce, and NC Cooperative Extension.

The festival will be held rain or shine.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sapphire/mountain-monarch-festival/200028624912543
- **Event Categories**: festivals, art, it, food-drinks, fine-arts, kids
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 495

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200028624912543?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=sapphire-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Sapphire
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 976 Grassy Ridge Rd, Sapphire, NC, United States, North Carolina 28774
- **lat**: 35.09739
- **long**: -82.95129
- **full address**: 976 Grassy Ridge Rd, Sapphire, NC, United States, North Carolina 28774

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Friends of Gorges State Park (https://allevents.in/org/friends-of-gorges-state-park/26387253)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 04 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 976 Grassy Ridge Rd, Sapphire, NC, United States, North Carolina 28774
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Friends of Gorges State Park
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** festivals, art, it, food-drinks, fine-arts, kids
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Mountain Monarch Festival ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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