Yes, you read that right. Memorial Day weekend in Southeast Missouri means a 100-MILE long yard sale that stretches along US Highway 25 from Jackson to Kennett. The mostly rural, usually quiet road turns into a snarled traffic jam all weekend long as bargain hunters crawl along, trying to decide which booth will be their next stop.
While there are stretches of country road that do not feature the booths, nearly every inch of roadside in every small town along the way is covered with vendors. Yards and narrow roadsides turn into parking lots, and police have to work to maintain two lanes of roadway free for traffic.
Residents along the route sell booth space to vendors, many of whom come back to exhibit their wares year after year.
Consult your map and hop onto the route at the starting or ending point or anywhere in between and experience the ultimate in yard sale euphoria!
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