Portsmouth Halloween Parade Wednesday; Road Closure List

PORTSMOUTH, NH -- The stage is set for Portsmouth's 24th annual Halloween Parade. The community-sponsored event is Wednesday, October 31, at 7 p.m. The parade will have a new route this year -- it will travel through Daniel Street into Market Square. The parade has traditionally gone through Bow Street.

"This new route allows better and faster access to first responders should ... the need arise," the parade's organizers wrote. "We are still the same grassroots, all-inclusive celebration of community, creativity, and free expression that walks, stalks, dances, trumpets, and drums its way through downtown Portsmouth each year."

This year's parade route starts on Marcy Street, continues to Dutton Avenue and then goes through Daniel Street, Market Square, Congress Street, Fleet Street and State Street before ending in Prescott Park.

The following streets will be closed at 4 p.m. Wednesday to make way for the parade:

• High Street
• Daniel Street
• Congress Street
• Pleasant Street, from State Street to Market Square
• Fleet Street, from Congress Street to State Street
• State Street, from Fleet Street to Marcy Street

Violators will be towed.

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Photo credit: Rick Uldricks/Patch