Phones began ringing in December at visitor centers throughout Northwest Georgia with bargain-seekers planning a summer weekend getaway to the annual Dixie Highway 90-Mile Yard Sale.

This year’s sale takes place Friday through Sunday, June 4-6, along the historic Dixie Highway in Ringgold, Tunnel Hill, Rocky Face, Dalton, Resaca, Calhoun, Adairsville, Cassville, Cartersville, Emerson, Acworth, and Kennesaw. Thousands of individual yard sales will be held during this annual event hosted by Georgia’s Dixie Highway Association.

Some of the unique items sold in past years have included authentic chenille bedspreads, antique gum ball machines, and even a “Tiffany blue” professional salon hood hair dryer. Enterprising residents baked cakes, smoked barbecue and erected old-fashioned lemonade stands just as they did when the Dixie Highway route first opened in the 1920s.

To purchase a yard sale sign $5 each or find a space to rent call 706-625-3200.

For more information, visit http://www.dixiehighway.org.