Yorktown Town-Wide Rummage Sale 2026: Map, Dates & Shopper's Guide

Once a year, households all across Yorktown hold garage and rummage sales on the same weekend. The Yorktown Town-Wide Rummage Sale is a community weekend in Yorktown, Indiana — a town in Delaware County just west of Muncie, ZIP 47396: residents get their address on the town-wide list, and for two days the whole town turns into one big, scattered sale. In 2026 it runs Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29, 8 AM to 4 PM both days.

Unlike a highway yard sale strung along one road, a town-wide sale is a grid, not a line. This year's list has 48 participating addresses spread across Yorktown — from the subdivisions on the west side to the older streets near downtown, plus a handful of neighbors just over the line in Muncie. That's the opportunity and the challenge: there's a lot to hit, but it's everywhere at once. The trick is reading the map and building a loop, not driving back and forth across town all morning.

How the town-wide rummage sale works

A town-wide weekend isn't one big sale in a parking lot — it's dozens of ordinary households clearing out garages, closets, and basements on the same two days. Residents who want to be found get their address on the town-wide flyer, with whether they're open Friday, Saturday, or both. That list is the real product of the weekend: it's how shoppers know where to go across town.

The catch is that a flyer full of addresses is hard to plan from — house number by house number, spread from one side of Yorktown to the other. That's exactly what the map below solves: every participating address pinned, with the hours each one is open, so you can build a sensible loop instead of crossing town five times. Browse the full list free, then map the smartest driving order and drive it.

Strategy — work one part of town at a time

A town-wide sale rewards a different plan than a highway event. There's no single route everyone follows; instead you're choosing which part of town to work and in what order. Two simple rules carry most of the morning.

• Cluster by area. The west-side subdivisions sit close together, and so do the older streets nearer downtown. Pick an area, hit everything there, then move on. A dozen sales within a mile of each other is a far better hour than four sales spread across Yorktown.
• Check the days first. Some sales are Friday-only, some Saturday-only, and most run both days. Route around the stops that fit when you're actually out, so you're not pulling up to a driveway that isn't open that day.

Go early. Everything opens at 8 AM, so the best of it is on the tables first thing. Build your loop around the densest streets, start at one edge of the map, and work across before the popular stops thin out by midday.

What you'll find

Yorktown is a settled east-central-Indiana town, and a town-wide sale like this turns over a lot of everyday household goods. Furniture, tools, and household items are the backbone of the weekend — the contents of dozens of homes being cleared or downsized at once, with a few multi-family and three-family sales that have even more to dig through.

Kids' and baby gear shows up in volume: toys, games, and outgrown clothes as families cycle through stages. It's one of the best reasons to hit a town-wide sale early, since the good kids' items go fast.

Antiques and vintage come out of the established homes here — vintage glassware, Indiana glass, antique furniture, sports cards, and the occasional oddity like an old Apple monitor. And across the whole map you'll find the usual mix — decor, kitchenware, cookbooks, and holiday items, frequently underpriced because the seller is clearing a house, not running a booth.

Pro tips

• Work one part of town at a time. Clear the west-side subdivisions or the downtown streets before jumping across town — the map is your route plan.
• Read the days. Friday-only and Saturday-only sales are scattered through the list; plan the one-day stops for the day you can make them.
• Chase the multi-family sales. The three-family and multi-family listings usually have the most volume — worth prioritizing.
• Bring small bills. These are front-yard sellers, not shops — cash, and plenty of singles and fives, keeps things moving.
• Keep the map on your phone. The live map here keeps the full participating-address list in your pocket as you drive the loop.

FAQ

When is the Yorktown Town-Wide Rummage Sale 2026?

Friday, August 28 and Saturday, August 29, 2026, 8 AM to 4 PM both days. It's a town-wide event across Yorktown, Indiana (Delaware County, ZIP 47396), just west of Muncie. Some sales are Friday-only, some Saturday-only, and most run both days.

Where is the map of participating addresses?

The town-wide flyer lists every participating address, and that full list is mapped on the MapMySales live event map — each address pinned across Yorktown, with whether it's open Friday, Saturday, or both, so you can plan a route around the sales nearest you.

Where is Yorktown, Indiana?

Yorktown is a town in Delaware County in east-central Indiana, just west of Muncie, ZIP 47396. A few participating addresses sit just over the line in Muncie, and they're mapped here too.

Are these multi-family sales?

Some are. A town-wide rummage weekend is mostly ordinary households clearing out garages and closets, and a few are multi-family or three-family sales with more to dig through. Dozens of homes take part across town.

When does next year's Yorktown Town-Wide Rummage Sale happen?

The town holds the rummage sale each summer. The 2027 dates will be confirmed closer to the event, and we'll update this page once they're posted.

Happy hunting, Yorktown.