Acton-Boxborough Friends of Music
A Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to the Acton-Boxborough Performing Arts

Columbus Day Parade

East Boston (Even-numbered years?)

Take the Mass. Pike East to the Ted Williams Tunnel 90 East (follow signs to the airport).
Follow signs to 1A North, past Holiday Inn, by tanks and Sunoco Station then take a right. Don't go up the ramp.
Stay right/ take next right onto Rt. 16.
Follow 2nd set of lights and bear to right. Revere St.
Follow to next set of lights take a right onto Bennington St. is the start of the parade route.

The parade starts at the City Hall Plaza on the Cambridge St. side at 1 p.m. (Government Center on the Green Line).
The Acton-Boxborough group will be at the end of Division 2 (out of 3), so they will appear about 2/3 of the way through the parade.
From City Hall Plaza, the parade will proceed down Court St., which turns into State St.
It will take a left onto Atlantic Avenue (near the New England Aquarium), and proceed past Columbus Park on the waterfront.
Atlantic Ave turns into Commercial St.
The parade takes a left onto Battery Street, then a left onto Hanover St. until the end.
It then takes a right onto Cross Street and then a right onto Endicott St.
The parade finishes at the end of Endicott St.