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December 27, 2007
Mapping Out the Madness: Rose Parade
The LA Times has compiled a handy interactive map to help aid in your Tournament of Roses parade planning.
You can use the map to view road closures, metro routes, parking locations, grandstand locations and, our personal favorite, the post-parade viewing area where all the floats will be on display. It's kind of like backstage at an awards-show, when you get to see all the gorgeousness and garishness up close.
Whether you think the parade is tacky or wacky or simply a mad mess of traffic and bodies and chaos, you can't deny the power of the float: how do they get all those flowers to make such interesting shapes?
Print your map and start your planning. You've got four full days before the craziness begins @ 8am on January 1st!
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Thanks for posting this. My parents are visiting and my mom is dead set on going to the Rose Parade, but since I'm new to California - I wasn't really sure what to do or where to go for information.
Awesome!
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There's nothing quite like seeing the Rose Parade in person.. unlike watching it on TV, you actually start looking forward to the marching bands, as well as the floats..
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If you ever get the chance, it's also fun to volunteer for decorating the floats, although it is a very slow process. Basically it's a matter of applying glue to the surface of the float, and then putting the flowers/plants on the glue (applying enough to cover the area you are working on) (it's not just flowers, but everything had to be some kind of plant). I found it especially fun doing it on the scaffolding. It's amazing how much effort goes into those floats every year.
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Screw traffic. Do this instead:
http://www.metro.net/news_info/press/metro_223.htm
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Screw traffic. Do this instead:
http://www.metro.net/news_info/press/metro_223.htm
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Screw traffic. The MTA has a "Tournament Train" to get you there without a car.