Highland Games 2025 Banner Elk Schedule. The highland games events season begins in may with the gourock highland games, it peaks in july and august with over 30 events each month, and comes to a close towards the end of. Balquhidder, lochearnhead & strathyre highland games.

The highland games are annual events celebrating scottish culture. 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.