Peak bloom: A look at the 2021 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival Jimmy Bernhard Replay Video UP NEXT A sure sign of spring returned to western Washington as colorful blooms of tulips and daffodils blanketed fields of Skagit Valley during the annual tulip festival. While the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival went virtual last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, visitors are allowed back into the fields this year with COVID-19 precautions in place. But visitors looking to get outside and enjoy the picturesque fields of color at RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town are slowly running out of time to get their Instagram-worthy photo op.