It's Festival Time!
The 2024 Festival is here,
Saturday and Sunday
October 19th and 20th
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Saturday
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Sunday
Free Admission!
How to Get to Hogansville
Historic Hogansville is located on Interstate 85 between Newnan and LaGrange, approximately 45 minutes south of the Atlanta Airport. Turn West at I-85 exit 28 onto GA 100/54. Downtown is only 3 miles off the Interstate.
Keep scrolling past the map for parking information...
Parking and Festival Access
General Parking Advice
We encourage festival goers to park in designated parking areas around the edges of the downtown festival area. Parking shuttles run to these lots every fifteen minutes. Plan an extra fifteen minutes, and you can relax, enjoy the ride, and avoid driving through and circling around downtown. Lots are organized and supervised by local nonprofit and church groups. Look for the parking signs and smiling people waving flags.
Coming in from the I-85 Exit, there is a parking area on East Main St (Hwy 54), near the Tucker's store. A mile or so in from the highway, slow down and look for the signs and flag wavers. There is also parking closer to downtown in the Elementary School, but this lot can fill up by mid-day, easily.
Coming in from LaGrange on Hwy 29, look for parking along Hwy 29. The Piggly Wiggly lot is one spot, but there will be signs pointing to other lots along Hwy 29. You can also come in over the RR crossing near Van's Hardware to Oak St, where there is parking near the Tower Trail trailhead. Look for the signs.
Coming in from Grantville/Carrolton on Hwy 29, the first parking you see on Hwy 29 when you come into town is your best bet. Look for the signs, before you get to Main St. Much of the parking along there is close enough to walk, and the free shuttles will be running. You can also cross over onto College Ave at the Johnson St RR crossing, which leads to some parking behind the train depot area.
Handicap Parking and Special Needs Access
Handicap access parking is located at City Hall, in the building that used to be PNC Bank, near the post office, on the southeast end of Main Street, near the Post Office. You can scope that out in the map below.
The best way to reach the handicap lot is from the east end of town, coming in on Hwy 54. Coming from the west, you will spend a few extra minutes driving through the downtown, but you can do it. When you see the churches on your left, turn right into the corner where the post office and PNC Bank is located. This lot gives you ready access to the main festival booths area, entertainment stages, and food court.
Thank You to Our Festival Sponsors
Thank You to Our Sponsors and Volunteers
The Hummingbird Festival is a 100% volunteer-driven, community-supported fundraiser for the Hogansville Charitable Trust, a registered non-profit entity that supports Hogansville community improvement projects and programs. As you can see on our Festival Sponsors Page, we are proud to have the support of many businesses, organizations, and individuals, large and small.
The volunteer efforts of dozens of people from the Hogansville community, combined with the funds raised throughout the festival season, combine to create real leverage for the Hogansville Charitible Trust to do good for the City of Friendly People. Click here to download a 'sponsor fact sheet' (PDF file) and find out how you or your organization can be part of the Hogansville Hummingbird Festival!
We always need volunteers! For jobs small, medium, and large--before, during, and after the festival. Something as simple as helping out in the food court for a couple hours or driving the parking shuttle bus can make a big difference. For more information call Mary Stewart at 706-333-2520.
Benefits of the Hummingbird Festival
The Hogansville Hummingbird Festival, 2024 being its 27th year, is the principal fund-raising vehicle for the Hogansville Charitable Trust, a 501(c) 3 Georgia non-profit corporation whose stated purpose is the renovation, preservation and improvement of historic and municipal properties in and around the City of Hogansville, Georgia.
The Festival has raised in excess of $325,000 for this purpose. However, by using these dollars primarily as matching funds for Federal, State and other grants, the money has been leveraged into more than $3,000,000 in improvements for the City.
The projects have included renovations of the historic Royal Theater, now used as Hogansville’s City Hall, three phases of StreetScapes and construction of the Tower Trail which includes a walking trail from Hogansville Elementary School, by the historic Water Tower, and ending on Oak Street by the City’s now retired water treatment plant, and an outdoor classroom. In 2016, the Charitable Trust purchased land in the center of downtown, which has since been donated to the city and named Askew Park. This preserves greenspace for our beautiful historic downtown. In 2018, the Trust made another large purchase for the benefit of the city, this time the PNC Bank building, which is being donated to the City of Hogansville with the intent of using it as a new City Hall.
In addition, the Festival has donated to such charities as the American Red Cross’ Katrina Relief Fund, the Shriners Hospital, the Boys and Girls Clubs of West Georgia, “Breast Friends for Life,” a Troup County support group for breast cancer patients, Hogansville’s GED program, and “God’s Bread Basket,” Hogansville’s Food Bank.
Donate to the Hogansville Charitable Trust