Snowdown Light Parade

For more information on this year's Snowdown, go to Snowdown.org

Parking and Street Closure Information, and FREE Transportation, for the Snowdown Light Parade

Time - parade starts at 6 pm, ends by 7 pm

Closure info:

Parade staging area – 500 block of Main, 5^th Street from Main to Park Elementary – 1:30 to 9 pm
Parade route – Main from College to 14^th Street, to Narrow Gauge on west and alley on east – 2:30 to 10 pm (Narrow Gauge open to parking and thru traffic, except 1100 block, see below; alley open to thru traffic, except 700 block, also see below)
Other – all 2:30 to 10 pm
- East and West 100 blocks of College
- East 100 block of 13^th
- 1100 block of Narrow Gauge (parking closed only, thru traffic allowed)
Thru traffic only on College (no turns onto Main allowed) until 5:30 pm. At 5:30, traffic detoured onto Narrow Gauge and E. 2^nd Ave.
City barricade trailers and street sweepers will take all parking on 500 block of E. 2^nd Ave. starting at 1:30 pm. Durango Police/La Plata County Mounted Patrol at E. 2^nd and College and E. 2^nd and 5^th to allow LIMITED traffic north and south through this block.
Alley between Main and E. 2^nd, and College and 5^th, open to through traffic until 5:15 pm. Exit onto 5^th monitored by Durango Police/La Plata County Mounted Patrol.
Alley between Main and E. 2^nd, and 7^th and College, CLOSED at 2:30 pm for bed races.
Bed Races – 4 to 5:30 pm, 700 block of Main and E. 100 block of 7^th Street
Pedestrian crossings of Main at 8^th and 11^th
Emergency access points – 5^th and Main, College and Main, 9^th and Main, 12^th and Main, 14^th and Main

FREE Transportation

Main Ave Trolley FREE starting at 3 pm. Arrives every 20 minutes. Last Trolley departs Transit Center at 8:40 pm
Special FREE shuttle from Fairgrounds to Transit Center. Starts at 5 pm at Fairgrounds, last shuttle departs Transit Center at 8 pm. At Fairgrounds every 15 minutes.

Parking options

Do NOT park at Town Plaza, Albertsons, Doubletree - parking for customers only
DO park in these locations:
- City lots after 5 pm (Transit Center and 3 lots on E. 2^nd Ave)
- Metered parking outside of closure area noted above, must pay meter until 6 pm
If parking in neighborhoods adjacent to Downtown, do not block driveways
Look for NO PARKING signs on meters Downtown
If parked in any Downtown private lot within closure areas, after 3 pm no exit will be allowed

Contacts for Questions

Alex Wilkinson, City of Durango, Alex.Wilkinson@durangogov.org, 970-375-7325 (office), 970-764-5632 (cell)
Tim Walsworth, BID, timw@downtowndurango.org, 970-375-5068 (office), 970-749-1157 (cell)