Your Ultimate Guide To All The 2025 East Texas Spring Festivals

While the holidays may be described as the 'most wonderful time of the year', springtime in East Texas comes in a very close second.

Everything is coming back from dormancy, sprouting beautiful, colorful flowers, green leaves springing from tree branches, and the pollenators are back, doing their job of spreading pollen!

I will say this: while springtime is beautiful in East Texas, I'm not fond of having to fire up the lawn mower and cut the grass every so often, but I'll accept it because it's a fact of life.

The blooming and greening of the trees and flowers are not the only things competing for our attention this Spring; the best festivals, special events, fun runs, fairs, and other activities will have us checking things out and enjoying spring weather.

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This spring, visitors will be flocking to Palestine, Texas to Tyler, Texas to Jacksonville, Texas to take part in these wonderful events. While many of them will be free to attend, others may require an admission fee, which is okay because oftentimes a portion of the proceeds benefit a local East Texas non-profit.

Your 2025 Guide To 9 Exciting Spring Festivals And Events In East Texas

It is that time of the year for us to get outside and have some fun. There are exciting festivals and events that will be providing us with a lot of activities.

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Again, one of the most beautiful sights in East Texas, Miss Lee's Daffodil Gardens, will be open with more parking and walking trails through the daffodils. Located south of Gladewater off Highway 271. The gardens will be open seven days a week from mid-February through mid-March.

Be sure to save the dates for all the fun happening around East Texas this spring in your calendar now so they won't sneak up on you because your garage and storage building spring cleaning can wait for another week. Have some fun this spring!