Enjoy The Most Colorful Spring Festival In West Virginia At The Wildflower Pilgrimage

Are you looking for a unique way to welcome the new season to wild, wonderful West Virginia this year? Spring in West Virginia is unlike anywhere else, and the opportunities to get out an enjoy it are endless! If you're having a hard time deciding where to start, we've got just the thing: the brightly colored, decades-old, expert-led Wildflower Pilgrimage that happens in the mountains every May. This is one of the spring festivals in West Virginia that is as sweet and memorable as it is colorful!

Every spring for more than six decades (yes, this spring festival really has been running that long!), folks have flocked from all corners of West Virginia (and elsewhere in the nation) to the Mountain State on Mother's Day weekend for the West Virginia Wildflower Pilgrimage.

Sponsored by folks from the West Virginia Garden Club, along with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, the Brooks Bird Club, and more, this special weekend of birding and wildflower identification is a spring highlight for many.

Featuring beautiful West Virginia scenery complimented by beautiful spring blooms, the festival takes attendees through various locations in Blackwater Falls State Park (the Blackwater Falls lodge is the pilgrimage's home base), Dolly Sods, Canaan Valley, Seneca Rocks, Germany Valley, Fernow Forest, Cathedral State Park, Sinks of Gandy, Otter Creek, and more.

This long weekend celebration of the spring bloom in the higher elevations of West Virginia's Appalachian Mountains is filled with a variety of workshops and tours led by all sorts of respected experts, the best in their fields.

Preregistration is required in order to attend this fee-based event, which typically draws several hundred people from more than a dozen different states.

The Wildflower Pilgrimage begins on the Thursday of Mother's Day weekend with some wildflower and birding workshops for beginners.

Then on Friday and Saturday, attendees will choose to join a "tour group" (one tour per day) to venture into the field under the guidance of a nature expert.

Tours range in location and difficulty level, and many of them are family friendly.

Have you ever attended a West Virginia Wildflower Pilgrimage? Will you be heading back out to enjoy the West Virginia spring flowers this May?

For dates, times, and registration and reservation information for this year's most colorful and educational spring festival, the West Virginia Wildflower Pilgrimage, visit the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources website.

If you're looking for a place to stay while you're here for the festival, this cozy cabin is perfect for couples! Or, if you reserve a spot early enough, you might even be able to snag a room at Blackwater Falls Lodge for this unique event. In fact, visiting the falls themselves is one of the best things to do in West Virginia in spring!

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