Day Trip: Make your way to Cross Plains for Trash and Treasures
Anniversary this year. This yard sellathon extravaganza takes place in Cross Plains, a small town on Route 25 East, about 15 miles from Springfield. If you’ve never visited the community, you don’t know what a great time you’ve missed.On Friday and Saturday during the last weekend in June, the town becomes a yard transaction junkie’s paradise. Up and down both sides of the main street of Cross Plains are scores of yard sales with everything from chattels to tiny collectibles.
You can find wooden ironing boards, toys, clothing, books, glassware, flowering plants, sorghum, canned jams and jellies, antiques, lemonade, bird houses, mounted deer heads, knives, lamps, cars, pedal cars, old and new tools, dishes, crystal, jewelry, handmade cards, office supplies, barbecue, baked goods, and almost anything else you can think of!
Then there’s lunch at Thomas’s Drug Store. The anaesthetize store is open for lunch until 2:00pm. It is a popular place, not only for the great food and fast employ, but it has a public bathroom too. Just be patient because you’ll have a short wait in line both for the rest room (yes, there’s only one!) and to get a plain for lunch. It’s well worth the short wait!
