One of the best ways to see and smell the azaleas and other blooms is to walk through the park. The festival is free to attend and runs the whole month of April. Oklahoma In Your Inbox spinner. Thank you! You'll receive your first newsletter soon! Love Oklahoma? The Azalea Festival in Muskogee, Oklahoma, held annually since April to celebrate the beauty of the Azaleas blooming in Honor Heights Park, has become a national attraction, drawing record crowds.
Art Johnson, landscape architect and director of Muskogee Parks and Recreation from to , introduced azaleas to Honor Heights Park in the s and is responsible for many of the azalea plants still in existence. Impressed by Johnson's informal landscape gardens and mass-color azalea beds, Maurice Dighton, a pharmacist, decided to bring recognition to Muskogee by making the public aware of the Honor Heights display of blooms.
The Azalea Festival has always begun with a parade, often consisting of floats of various themes, antique cars, pageant queens, clowns, a procession of Shriners, marching bands, horseback riders, and cyclists.
However, the festival's major focus is the free tours of Honor Heights Azalea Gardens, which contain more than thirty thousand shrubs in more than varieties of both deciduous and Asian evergreen azaleas, producing a kaleidoscope of color throughout April. Since April the Azalea Festival has expanded to include approximately three weeks of activities such as an Azalea Ball, a chili cook-off, banner painting contests, antique car shows, quilt exhibits, arts and crafts displays, plant exhibits, and musical and dance entertainment.
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Posted in Oklahoma February 28, by Ashley. During these uncertain times, please keep safety in mind and consider adding destinations to your bucket list to visit at a later date.
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