Parade Participant Information
Community organizations, businesses, individuals and politicians are all welcome (politicians, you must be 'fun'). If you're in the Miners' Day parade, please become familiar with the parade rules (below) and be there on time for the lineup in Swede Alley.
Want to be in the parade?
The parade is open to all. Entries for Park City’s annual Miners’ Day Parade on Monday, Sept. 5 are now open. It will be the 126th running of the community’s historic parade down Main Street to City Park. It’s all a part of the Park City Rotary Club’s Miners’ Day Festival. The parade is open to all from politicians to non-profits, commercial companies to individuals – even dogs!
Entry Fees
Parade entry fees range from free for individuals up to $100 for companies with 11 or more employees. Nonprofit or non-commercial organizations are free. Entries are accepted up to Thursday, Sept. 1 at 5:00 p.m. Simply complete the online Miners’ Day Parade Registration form.
Parade Contact
Meeche White
meeche.white@gmail.com
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MINERS' DAY PARADE RULES
On behalf of the PARK CITY ROTARY CLUB, we are excited to have you and your friends and family join in this year’s MINERS' DAY PARADE and FESTIVITIES. Please find the following guidelines which must be followed for a safe and fun experience for all.
1. Please have your plan to check in at Swede Alley by 9:30 a.m. Parade vehicles may travel in the bus lanes in Park City. Your people should arrive by 10:00 a.m. Judging will begin promptly at 10:30 a.m.
2. Check in for your parade position at the Parade Official’s table located in Swede Alley. While there you will receive a number designation to attach to your entry.
3. Please tape your parade entry number to the front part of right side of your car, float, entry, for the ease of announcers and judges. Announcing occurs from the Deck at 505 Main Street and again at the 9th Avenue turn.
4. Parade begins at 11:00 a.m., rain or shine, right after the flyover.
5. The Parade route is down Main Street, turning left on 9th Avenue, then right onto Park Avenue. The parade ends on Park Avenue near the entrance to City Park. All parade entries MUST continue down Park Avenue. You can NOT enter City Park. You may drop off at 7-11 and will only be allowed 30 seconds to disembark.
6. NO alcohol allowed, either in or on parade floats and entries.
7. A spacing of 30-50 feet between parade units/floats will be enforced. Please maintain awareness of units in front and behind you. Keep a safe distance apart, but do not allow more than 50 feet of space between floats.
8. NO items may be “thrown” from any float, person, walker, vehicle or parade entry. NO exceptions. Approved items may be “handed” to spectators only – in direct hand-to-hand fashion. Approved items could include flyers, coupons, small logoed items, small candies, sealed bottles of water. Violators will be stopped by the Park City Police Department officers and asked to leave the parade route immediately.
9. NO water devices such as squirt guns, water pistols, water balloons will be allowed, either in or on parade entries.
10. Children MUST be under adult supervision at all times.
11. Please pick-up all trash created by you on Swede Alley, the parade route and in the area you tear-down your float/entry.
12. All parade entries will be reviewed and subject to approval prior to parade day. Please be clear on your parade application.
13. Parade participants shall indemnify and hold harmless the Rotary Club of Park City, the officers, the members, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, damages, demands and liabilities of any nature, including all costs and expenses including attorney’s fees, for or on account of all injuries or death or any person or on account of all damages to property of any kind whether tangible or intangible, or loss of use resulting therefrom, proximately caused by the negligence or the comparative negligence of the Rotary Club of Park City, its officers, members, and affiliates in the performance of obligations under this Agreement and/or arising out of any activity related to this Agreement.
