The 85th Annual Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade will return to the streets of Olde Towne at 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 4. This rain or shine event includes dance groups, antique cars and fire trucks, clowns and high school marching bands. It also will feature an assortment of community groups and equestrian units. County Executive Marc Elrich is scheduled to be in the parade.
The parade is the way the City of Gaithersburg and the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Fire Department celebrate the unofficial end of summer.
The parade will wind its way down East Diamond and Russell avenues. Larry Miller, multiple Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning morning news anchor and consumer investigative reporter for WUSA9 TV, will be the parade’s master of ceremonies.
Food vendors will be located at Olde Towne Plaza and the parking lot next to the Gaithersburg-Washington Grove Fire Station.
Ample free parking will be available at the Lakeforest Shopping Center transit station, with complimentary shuttle service to and from Gaithersburg Elementary School beginning at noon. Those who wish to view the parade in the shade along Russell Avenue can walk there from the transit station by way of Odend’hal Avenue. Limited free parking will be available in the Olde Towne Parking Garage, located at the corner of Olde Towne and South Summit avenues.
Accessible parking for those with disability placards or plates will be available behind the Victor Litz store on the north side of Diamond Avenue and behind the Shell station on South Summit Avenue.
More information about the parade is available at https://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/recreation/special-events/labor-day-parade.
