Littleton's Western Welcome Week Grand Parade Saturday

LITTLETON, CO – The 90-year-old Western Welcome Week parade steps off in Historic Downtown Littleton Saturday at 10 a.m. The annual celebration of community and the West includes horseback riders, multiple high school marching bands, pipe bands, tractors, floats, Scout troops and everything else you'd expect in the "biggest parade in the southwest metro area."

Celebrating this year's theme of “Community & Friendship” will be Grand Marshal(s): Dick Lautenbach and Bruce Annibel from the Littleton Sister City Bega, New South Wales, Australia.

See a time-lapse video of last year's parade in the video above.

The parade began in 1928 when Houstoun Waring, editor of the Littleton Independent, held a 40th anniversary celebration for the paper, and it just kept going.

Along with food and more than 100 vendors, special events this year will include:

• 10th Friends' "Bag of Books" Sale at Bemis Library
• 9th Create Your Own Pottery Masterpiece at Hot Pots
• Stanton Art Gallery ~ For the Love of the West at Town Hall Arts Center
• 35th All Colorado Juried Art Exhibit at Depot Art Gallery

Events are free.

Free parking is available at Arapahoe Community College, 5900 S. Santa Fe Drive.
A school bus shuttle will take you from Arapahoe Community College up to the parade staging area at Gallup and Littleton Boulevard.

For more information about the Grand Parade and other Western Welcome Week events, visit the Western Welcome Week website.

Image via YouTube.

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