The Highway 127 Corridor Sale, also called the 127 Yard Sale, is an outdoor

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sale held annually for four days beginning the first Thursday in August along

U.S. Route 127 U.S. Route 127 (US 127) is a north–south U.S. Highway in the eastern half of the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 27, US 27 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The northern terminus is at Interstate 75 ...

(US 127). The event has been promoted as "The World's Longest

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History

The original idea came from

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, county executive Mike Walker, and was established in 1987. When it began, the sale route followed US 127 from Covington, Kentucky, to

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, Tennessee. A few years after the event was established, the Lookout Mountain Parkway was added to the route, extending it from Chattanooga southward through northwestern

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and northeastern

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to Gadsden. In 2006, the route was extended northward from Covington, through

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to the

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border, making its last major stops around

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, and points northward. In 2010, the sale was extended northward to

Hudson, Michigan Hudson is a city in Lenawee County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,415 at the 2020 census. The city is mostly surrounded by Hudson Township, but the two are administered autonomously. History Hudson was named for Dr. Danie ...

. In 2012, it was extended again to north of Addison, Michigan, totaling an approximate end-to-end distance of .

Southern extension of the yard sale route

The Lookout Mountain Parkway extension of the yard sale route through Alabama and Georgia includes the roadways listed below. In

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: *Tabor Road off Alabama State Route 211 (Noccalula Road) from Gadsden northeast to Collinsville * Alabama State Route 176 from Collinsville to Dogtown, Alabama, *DeKalb County to Mentone, Alabama, and * Alabama State Route 117 to the Georgia state line. In Chatooga, Dade, and Walker Counties, Georgia: * Georgia State Route 48 to the GA 157 junction in Cloudland, Georgia, * Georgia State Route 157 north to the GA 136 junction, *

Georgia State Route 136 State Route 136 (SR 136) is a State highway (US), state highway that travels west-to-east through portions of Dade County, Georgia, Dade, Walker County, Georgia, Walker, Gordon County, Georgia, Gordon, Murray County, Georgia, Murray, ...

west to the GA 189 junction, and * Georgia State Route 189 to the Tennessee state line on

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. In southern Hamilton County,

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: * Tennessee State Route 148 in Lookout Mountain, and * from the SR 148 junction to the

Interstate 24 Interstate 24 (I-24) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. It runs diagonally from I-57, south of Marion, Illinois, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at I-75. It travels through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennesse ...

interchange in downtown Chattanooga.

Media

The event was featured on

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in 2006.

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External links

127YardSale.com

Turn-by-Turn Directions Through Georgia and Alabama
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History

Southern extension of the yard sale route

Media

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