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Each year, at Lehi, Utah’s Thanksgiving Point’s Ashton Gardens, they host Utah’s largest tulip festival. We’ve gone every year since our little guy was born and a couple times when we first got married, and it never disappoints.

We went multiple times throughout the spring this year and I read in this article, this was the biggest year yet with “over 900,000 flowers, including Dutch tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, poppies, and more. According to a press release, this year’s sights…[featured] 100,000 more flowers, making it Thanksgiving Point’s largest event since it opened in 2004…According to Thanksgiving Point, over 400,000 tulips were imported from Holland.”

We could definitely tell a difference even from the festival they put on last year. They also added several flower sculptures this year, featuring a lady painting, some fairies, and gnomes — along with a giant tulip gateway and butterfly gateway for perfect photo ops.

The festival started April 9 this year, and I imagine it will begin around the same time next year. It runs until tulip season ends, this year it went until May 17th.

Although dogs aren’t allowed during the tulip festival, Ashton Gardens does host a “dog walk Wednesday” during one of the summer months. Last year it was during the month of July, and this year it was during the month of August.