Holiday Lighted Parade & Tree Lighting

DOWNTOWN PORTAGE HOLIDAY PARADE & TREE LIGHTING ENTRY FORM
 
The Downtown Portage Business Improvement District is excited to be hosting the Holiday Parade! We invite you to join us and participate in the parade on Friday, November 29, 2024.
 
All area schools, churches, businesses and private parties are encouraged to participate and help celebrate the holidays with us. All are welcome to help make this a grand community event. We ask only that parade entries have a holiday theme and that your entry be lit with lights.

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PARADE DETAILS:

• Holiday Parade is Friday, November 29, 2024 at 6PM. Registrations are due by 11/22/24
• This year we will be doing a theme: "Favorite Holiday Movie," bring your favorite holiday movie to life on your float! We will have prizes for our favorite floats.
• Do not incorporate a Santa in your unit, as the “real one” will be featured along with the Portage Fire Department at the end of the parade.
• No candy throwing is permitted from the vehicles. Please walk along the route to distribute candy. 
• The parade will take place entirely on Cook Street (Hwy 33). It will begin at the corner of MacFarlane Road and Cook Street in front of St. Mary Church. It will proceed east down Cook Street to the Market Square parking lot where it will end.
• Lineup will begin at 430PM. Parade entrants will be staged by your arrival on MacFarlane Road. Enter the parade staging area from West Pleasant and proceed to the intersection at MacFarlane Road.
• Tree lighting is immediately after the parade at Commerce Plaza.