The Roller Coaster Yard Sale, sometimes referred to as the Roller Coaster Fair, is an outdoor

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sale held annually for three days beginning the first Thursday in October. It takes place along several

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and state routes in southern

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and northern middle

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Event description and history

The event was started by Sarah Ann Bowers in 1986. The reason that Bowers started the event is that she wanted to improve the beautiful Cordell Hull Highway ( Kentucky Routes 63 and 90 in Barren County) and needed to prove that the road was very well traveled in the area. In 2001, over 140,000 travelers visited the area from miles around just to take in yard sales along the specific routes. In 2002, the yard sale routes extended into

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, Overton, and

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counties in

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. Soon after that US 127 in

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and

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from Clinton County through Burkesville to Glasgow and Cave City, Kentucky were added to the Roller Coaster Fair itinerary to make the event go completely around the

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area. The current

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route for this event, in terms of mileage, in the present day, totals about , covering five counties in Kentucky and three counties in Tennessee.

Roller Coaster Fair's designated routes

The Roller Coaster Fair takes place at several booths located along these routes listed below.

South-Central Kentucky (Leg 1)

* KY 63 (which is recognized as a Kentucky Scenic Byway) from

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, Barren County, KY to

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. * KY 163 from downtown Tompkinsville to Hestand to the

State line.

Middle Tennessee

* Tennessee State Route 51 entire route from the TN-KY border to

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from Moss to Celina to

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(

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) *

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(formerly TN 42) from Livingston, through

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, Pickett County, to the US 127 Junction at the TN- KY border near

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South-Central Kentucky (Leg 2)

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from Static, through Albany, to the unincorporated community of

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. * KY 90 from

through Burkesville (

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) and Marrowbone, to Summer Shade (Metcalfe County), back to Glasgow, all the way to its western terminus at the junction with KY 70 and

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, about short of

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References

External links

Rollercoasterfair.com: Roller Coaster Fair websiteRollercoasterfair.com: Roller Coaster Fair Brochure
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