Lee County Tobacco Festival

Pennington Gap, VA · Arts & Culture

When: October 23, 2027
Where: Downtown Main St · Pennington Gap · VA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Lee County Tobacco Festival parades down Main Street in Pennington Gap each fall, celebrating the county's tobacco farming heritage with a beauty pageant, vendors, and floats. Established in 1949, it is Lee County's oldest annual parade and the longest running tobacco festival in Virginia. The 2026 festival and parade are set for October 24, with the parade stepping off at 3pm from the Middle School to Lee Bank.

Open on the map → Official site

Organize this event? Claim this page to confirm the dates and details. It takes about a minute.

The history within reach

Lee County Tobacco Festival0.7 mi
The Lee County Tobacco Festival parades down Main Street in Pennington Gap each fall, celebrating the county's tobacco farming heritage with a beauty pageant, vendors, and floats.
Bloody Harlan and the Brookside strike14 mi
Coal operators here ran the county outright, hiring deputies, evicting strikers and shooting organisers, and it took until the 1970s to finish the fight.
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine15 mi
John Fox Jr wrote a coal-boom romance here in 1908 that sold a million copies, became one of the first films shot in Technicolor, and left the mountains with a stereotype they have been arguing with ever since.
Big Stone Gap Home Craft Days16 mi
Mountain Empire Community College hosts this Appalachian craft and music festival each October, opening with a free Friday concert followed by two days of traditional craftspeople and demonstrations.
Natural Tunnel16 mi
Stock Creek spent a million years dissolving a passage clean through a limestone ridge, leaving a cave more than eight hundred feet long and tall enough that a railroad was laid through it in 1890 rather than around.