Downtown Portland welcomes the Grand Floral Parade’s return

The Rose Festival’s Grand Floral Parade may be more than a century old, but it’s still embracing change .

On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to noon, it will wind through downtown Portland, returning to the city’s core after a three-year, post-pandemic hiatus that kept the annual parade east of the Willamette River.

READ MORE: See the Grand Floral Parade route .

The new route weaves past landmarks such as Pioneer Courthouse Square, beginning at Tom McCall Waterfront Park and ending at Providence Park. 24

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Grand Floral Parade float making

Celebrating under the theme of “All Together Now!,” the parade will feature floats big and small, marching bands, horses, drill teams, vintage vehicles, dancers, llamas and Queen of Rosaria Ava Rathi , a 2025 graduate of Lincoln High School.