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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!