Questions about the parade? Email: parade@ypsilantijaycees.com or call our hotline at: 734-332-9139
***NEW - Parade Lineup posted below****
Parade happens Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 10:00 am
The Ypsilanti Heritage Festival invites you to join us at the 2011 Festival Parade. Thousands of spectators, children of “all ages,” families and friends, will gather on the parade route to enjoy the bands, floats, marching units, neighborhood groups, school organizations and much, much more as they march through Ypsilanti to Riverside Park, site of the 33rd Annual Ypsilanti Heritage Festival.
Parade Route
The parade will step off at Ballard Street and Michigan Avenue and travel east on Michigan Avenue through downtown Ypsilanti, North on Huron Street to Cross Street and west on Cross Street where the parade disbands at Washington Street.
Line-up starts at 9am on Michigan Ave between Ballard & 1st all parade entries should be in place by 9:30am.
2011 Parade Lineup
1 Vietnam Veterans Chapter # 310
2 Heritage Festival Grand Marshals
3 Ypsilanti Heritage Festival
4 Ypsilanti Mayor and City Council
7 Ypsilanti Fire Department
8 Tittabawassee Valley Fife & Drum Corps
8a Eastern Michigan University
8b Eastern Michigan University Athletics
9 EMU-Elderquest Rubber Duck Race
10 Team Dingell
12 Ypsilanti Area Jaycees Beautiful Babies
13 Ypsilanti Area Service Unit - Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan
14 Lincoln High School Marching Band
15 Lincoln Education Association
16 Ypsilanti Heritage Foundation and Riverside Arts
16a Friends of Rutherford Pool
17 Ypsilanti Cooperative Preschool
18 Ypsilanti Rotary Club
19 !929 Ford Model A Pick Up Truck
20 Ypsilanti District Library Bookmobile
21 Willow Run Marching Band
21 Willow Run community Schools
22 Upward Basketball & Cheerleading
23 Bethesda Bible Church
24 Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra
25 Iron Saints Chapter of Christian Motorcyclists Association
26 Ypsilanti National Little League
27 Marine Corp League #414
28 Michigan Sting Girls Basketball Club
30 Little Miss Washtenaw County
31 Ypsilanti Public Schools Marching Band
32 Saline Twirlettes
32a Michigan Wheelmen
33 Ypsilanti Youth Orchestra
34 Wiard's Orchards, Inc.
35 Michigan Firehouse Museum
36 Emmanuel Lutheran Church
37 National Heritage Academies
37a Growing a Sustainable Ypsilanti
38 Cub Scout Pack 249
39 Harmony Acres Arabian Horses
40 Talladay Farms Corn Maze
