Green Hill Highland Games

Where can you find a ton of tartan, bold bag pipes and feats of super human strength in Roanoke County, Virginia? Only at the 2014 Green Hill Highland Games where you'll see some of the most impressive kilt-donning athletes around! On Saturday, September 27 from 9am-5pm Roanoke County’s Green Hill Park will host the Green Hill Highland Games. Both male and female athletes will challenge one another in traditional Scottish heavy athletics and strength competitions, including the Weight Throw, Scottish Hammer Throw, Stone Put and the always entertaining Caber Toss, which involves tossing a long, tapered pine log or pole end-over-end. Come on out and cheer on the athletes, spectator admission is FREE.For more information about the 2014 Green Hill Highland Games or if you have what it takes to compete in the Highland Games and want to register for the competition, visit www.RoanokeCountyParks.com or contact Wendi Schultz at 540.777.6326 or email wschultz@roanokecountyva.gov.

For more information about the 2014 Green Hill Highland Games or if you have what it takes to compete in the Highland Games and want to register for the competition, visit www.RoanokeCountyParks.com or contact Wendi Schultz at 540.777.6326 or email wschultz@roanokecountyva.gov