The 6th annual Great Outdoors Festival is making its return to downtown Erwin on Saturday, May 6th from 10am to 4 pm.The festival is held every year to welcome Appalachian Trail thru-hikers into town.“It’s like a hiker hospitality weekend,” said Erwin Communications Director Jamie Rice. “It’s to celebrate us being an Appalachian Trail town, and so we have a lot of events catered toward the hikers that are coming through our area the first week of May.”