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Woodbooger Festival
Norton, VA · Quirky
- When
- September 25–27, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Norton and Flag Rock Recreation Area · Norton · VA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Norton's tribute to its own local Bigfoot like legend fills downtown and Flag Rock Recreation Area with a trail race, guided night searches, and cryptid themed vendors each September. The city run festival has grown into a signature event for the Southwest Virginia coalfields.
The history within reach
- Woodbooger Festivalsame spot
Norton's tribute to its own local Bigfoot like legend fills downtown and Flag Rock Recreation Area with a trail race, guided night searches, and cryptid themed vendors each September.
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.
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.
A free folklife festival produced by Appalshop in downtown Whitesburg, with old-time and bluegrass music, local crafters and food, and a Sunday gospel show at a nearby church.
A federal job-training scheme put cameras in the hands of young people in a coalfield town so they could learn a trade, and instead of leaving they turned it into a film and radio outfit that has documented the region from inside for over fifty years.