{"id":14672,"date":"2024-09-18T08:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=14672"},"modified":"2024-09-18T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T15:58:37","slug":"sunfair-parade-kicks-off-2024-fair-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/sunfair-parade-kicks-off-2024-fair-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunfair Parade Kicks Off 2024 Fair Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Yakima Sunfair Parade will follow its familiar route of more than one-and-a-half miles through Downtown Yakima on Saturday, September 21<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parade begins at 10:00 am and is anticipated to last until 2:00 pm. It is expected to attract about 10,000 spectators. The parade will include about 200 vehicles as it makes its way down Yakima Avenue from 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to Naches Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parade route will be closed to traffic, and side streets along the parade route will also be closed to through traffic while the parade is underway. As the last entries in the parade pass by the closed side streets, they will be reopened to traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakima Avenue will be closed to all traffic from N. 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue to 6<sup>th<\/sup> Street from 9:00 am until the parade concludes. There will be no parking along the Yakima Avenue parade route from 7:00 am until the parade concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue will be closed to traffic for parade staging from Summitview Avenue down to Bonnie Doon from 7:00 am until all parade floats are off of 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be detours in place to help drivers navigate around these street closures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yakima Transit bus routes will detour around Yakima Avenue and 16<sup>th<\/sup> Avenue down to Naches Avenue from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday. Regular bus service will resume after 1:00 pm. For more about routes and bus times, call 509-575-6175.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about the 2024 Sunfair Parade is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Yakimasunfairparade\">Yakima Sunfair Parade | Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-32f59371-0c6b-49e3-bb01-589bff77d1a3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2024-Sunfair-Parade-News-Release.pdf\">2024 Sunfair Parade &#8211; News Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2024-Sunfair-Parade-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-32f59371-0c6b-49e3-bb01-589bff77d1a3\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima Sunfair Parade will follow its familiar route of more than one-and-a-half miles through Downtown Yakima on Saturday, September 21st. The parade begins at 10:00 am and is anticipated to last until 2:00 pm. It is expected to attract about 10,000 spectators. The parade will include about 200 vehicles as it makes its way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14674,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14672\/revisions\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}