Grandfather Mountain Highland Games 2025. The long and storied tradition that is the grandfather mountain highland games returns to macrae meadows on thursday, july 11, continuing through sunday, july 14. The grandfather mountain highland games and gathering of scottish clans will take place in macrae meadows at the base of grandfather mountain in boone, north carolina during the second weekend of july in 2025, starting thursday,.

Nowhere in the new world is there a place more reminiscent of the scottish highlands than the home of america’s grandest highland games—grandfather mountain, north carolina. Watch or compete in a variety of traditional.