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Ligonier Highland Games

Ligonier, PA · Sports

When

July 16–17, 2027

Where

Idlewild Park · Ligonier · PA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Idlewild Park hosts one of the oldest Highland games in the country each July, with caber toss and hammer throw competitions, massed pipe bands and dozens of Scottish clan society tents. The games have run since the 1950s and held their 67th annual gathering in 2026. Competitors and clan societies travel from across the country for the weekend.

The history within reach

• Ligonier Highland Gamessame spot

  Idlewild Park hosts one of the oldest Highland games in the country each July, with caber toss and hammer throw competitions, massed pipe bands and dozens of Scottish clan society tents.

• Arnold Palmer7.5 mi

  Born in Latrobe, where his father was the greenkeeper and then the pro at the country club the family could not otherwise have belonged to, he later bought it.

• Rolling Rock7.6 mi

  Brewed at the Latrobe Brewing Company in green glass with a painted horse and an enigmatic '33' whose meaning the company itself never settled.

• Fred Rogers7.7 mi

  Born in Latrobe, a steel-and-brewery town in the Laurel Highlands, a shy, often-sick child who spent long stretches indoors with puppets.

• The banana split7.8 mi

  A 23-year-old apprentice pharmacist split a banana lengthwise, laid three scoops in the trough and charged a dime, double the going rate for a sundae.