Taos Lilac Festival

The Taos Lilac Festival is a community event held each year during the two weeks between Mother’s Day and Memorial Day to celebrate the arrival of blooming lilacs throughout the Taos area. The grand festival weekend is the weekend before Memorial Day. This year, as last, activities planned for the Grand Festival Weekend include an Arts and Crafts Fair, a Pet Parade, Vintage Flying Jenny Carousel and Live Music all in Kit Carson Park. A self-guided walking tour map of the Taos historic district is available for touring the area, viewing and enjoying the aroma of blooming lilacs.

The New Mexico Beer & Wine Garden is featuring beers, wines and foods from New Mexico. There will also be the Taos Taco Cook Off and the Lilac 5K. In addition to lilac gardening sessions from Los Jardineros Garden club there will be a large gardening center tent featuring gardening supplies, lilac advice and twelve varieties of lilacs for sale.