- Dates: October 18, 2025 - October 19, 2025
- Recurrence: every day until October 19, 2025
- Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Location: Historic Banner Elk Elementary School
- Address: 185 Azalea Circle SE, Banner Elk, NC 28604
- Phone: (828) 898-5605
- Price: $10 Adults and $7 Children 6-12
Experience the town of Banner Elk's annual festival celebrating a local tradition. For over forty years the community and visitors have gathered to race woolly worms and name a winner, whose fuzzy pattern forecasts the upcoming winter's weather.
There will be tons of family fun, food, and craft vendors on Saturday and Sunday. Don't forget to bring your woolly worm for the big Woolly Worm Race on Saturday! The first prize is $1000!