The annual North Carolina Azalea Festival parade will be held on Saturday, April 5th in downtown Wilmington. The parade will feature floats, marching bands, and Queen Azalea LXXVIII Bethany Joy Lenz.

The N.C. Azalea Festival has been in full swing since Wednesday, April 2, bringing a flurry of events and brightly colored fashions to the Port City. Unlike in some years, the azaleas started blooming ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - A shuttle service will be available at Independence Mall on Saturday. Starting at 7 a.m., shuttles will run every 15 minutes, taking passengers downtown for the Azalea ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -Preparations are underway for this year’s North Carolina Azalea Festival. Over 1,000 volunteers are putting together traditional events like the parade, the street fair, and ...

Spring might have officially started on March 20, but, for me, it really starts with the N.C. Azalea Festival. In today’s StarNews, reporter John Staton highlights key events from this year’s festival ...

The Assistant Director of Parks for Muskogee Parks and Recreation, Rick Ewing, said the Azalea Festival started small. “It started with a donation to Honor Heights Park of some azaleas that somebody ...

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — The 2026 Azalea Festival is already just a few months away, and the official artwork was unveiled on Tuesday night. Created by Wilmington native Elizabeth Sheats, the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Mobile Azalea Trail Maids are now enroute to Washington D.C. to participate in the 60th Annual Inaugural Parade for President-elect Donald Trump. We caught up with them as ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Sad news here locally---the Mobile Azalea Trail Maids were scheduled to participate in President-Elect Donald Trump’s inaugural parade Monday. However because the parade was ...

The parade will be held Saturday, April 5, from 9:30-11:30 a.m. The parade will move north on Third Street beginning at the intersection with Market Street and ending at Bladen Street. A map of the ...