Stop and smell the flowers at Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
MOUNT VERNON — Kids splashed through muddy puddles in their rain boots, families stopped to smell the flowers, and friends posed for photos among vast blankets of tulips and daffodils — just another morning at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.
Each year, more than half a million flower lovers travel from far and wide to see North America’s largest tulip festival in Mount Vernon.
The festival’s largest garden, Roozengaarde, features more than 200 varieties of tulips and daffodils and spans 50 acres. The team plants about 1 million bulbs by hand and tens of millions by machine, garden manager Brent Roozen said.
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To avoid crowds, Roozen suggests visitors come during the week or days when rain is only forecasted for an hour or two. Bloom updates are available on the festival’s website as well as its Instagram and Facebook pages.
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