Hundreds Of Thousands Attend Atlanta Dogwood Festival

ATLANTA -- After two days, the 83rd Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival got off to a wet start Sunday morning. When the rains cleared, the festival was in full gear, fishing it’s 83rd year with high attendance to rival records of recent years. More than 1,600 runners joined the Mimosa 5K on Saturday morning, and approximately 200,000 attendees visited the Piedmont Park site throughout the three-day fine arts festival.

“We were all concerned with the weather conditions Sunday morning, but the potential storm turned out to be a non-event,” said Brian Hill, festival executive director. “Safety is our number one priority, but ultimately, it ended up nothing more than a rain shower. Once the sun came out, so did the people, so we closed this year in great shape.”

The 84th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival will return to Piedmont Park April 17-19, 2020.

The city’s longest-running festival, the Atlanta Dogwood Festival is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing the annual springtime celebration of arts and entertainment. The Society of American Travel Writers named the Atlanta Dogwood Festival as one of the Top 10 Spring Festivals in 2012 and Sunshine Artist magazine named the festival the 8th best in the country in 2017.

The Art Fair Sourcebook ranked the Atlanta Dogwood Festival in its list of Top 25 Fine Art Festivals in the country for 2013. The festival has also earned significant recognition for the overwhelming success of its Green Festival Initiative, which in 2011, 2012 and 2013 received a Gold Award for Best Festival Environmental Program from the International Festivals & Events Association.