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North Carolina Azalea Festival

Wilmington, NC · Festival

When

April 7–11, 2027

Where

Downtown Wilmington · Wilmington · NC

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Wilmington's signature spring festival fills downtown with a street fair, garden tours, and a parade, timed to the city's azalea bloom. It has run since 1948, one of the state's oldest festivals, and the 2027 edition is its 80th.

The history within reach

• North Carolina Azalea Festivalsame spot

  Wilmington's signature spring festival fills downtown with a street fair, garden tours, and a parade, timed to the city's azalea bloom.

• The USS North Carolina comes to Wilmington0.1 mi

  The first of the new fast battleships, in every major Pacific offensive and credited with helping save the Enterprise at the Eastern Solomons.

• IRONMAN 70.3 North Carolina (Beach to Battleship)0.1 mi

  Known locally by its original name, Beach to Battleship, this half-Ironman starts with a swim in Wrightsville Beach's Banks Channel, then a bike and run finishing at Water Street Park across from the Battleship North Carolina.

• The Wilmington Ten0.8 mi

  Nine Black students and a white woman organiser were convicted of firebombing a grocery during unrest over school desegregation and given sentences totalling 282 years.

• The Wilmington coup of 18980.9 mi

  Wilmington was a majority-Black city with a Black-and-white Fusionist government, Black aldermen, police and businesses.