Welcome To Yellville Arkansas
N 36° 13.622 W 092° 41.346
15S E 527940 N 4009175
"Welcome To Yellville Arkansas - Home Of The National Wild Turkey Calling Contest". Indeed, this contest is what puts this town on the map once per year!!!
Waymark Code: WMFWVD
Location: Arkansas, United States
Date Posted: 12/09/2012
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"After World War II, the American Legion post in Yellville elected to hold a festival celebrating the wild turkey. Wild turkey hunting had recently been suspended in Arkansas because hunters had depleted the species. The “National Wild Turkey Calling Contest and Turkey Trot” (usually called simply the Turkey Trot) is held every October in Yellville on the second Friday and Saturday of the month. It includes a parade, a five-kilometer run (the “Turkey Trot Trot”), street dances, and food. Part of the celebration has traditionally included dropping live wild turkeys from low-flying planes in an effort to replenish the species. Reportedly, the effort has, on occasion, killed rather than freed the birds. National attention was given to the turkey drop, including a memorable 1978 episode of the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Current literature about the Turkey Trot carefully avoids mention of the turkey drop, but other sources report that the event, which was discontinued in 1989, has been quietly reinstated, happening south of town during the festival but never publicized." (from (
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Turkey Trot is the home of the oldest National Wild Turkey Calling Contest in the nation. We host a turkey dinner, a parade, a pageant, quilt show, 5K run, lip sync contest, pizza gobble, art show, food and craft booths, live music, and a rodeo.
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