Santa Clarita Valley Fourth of July Parade Returns for 2022

The Santa Clarita Valley Fourth of July Parade is back! After a 2-year hiatus, the parade returns to Old Town Newhall on Monday, July 4, to celebrate the front-line personnel – from healthcare workers to first responders, schoolteachers to restaurateurs and more – people who kept our community safe and sane during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 90th Anniversary Parade brings together thousands of participants and spectators to celebrate America’s independence, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Newhall roundabout. From there, the parade heads north on Main Street, west onto Lyons Avenue in front of the Newhall Library, and then north onto Orchard Village Road ending at Dalbey Drive.
“I know our Santa Clarita community has missed this hometown Fourth of July parade for the past two years, so the SCV Parade Committee is bringing it back bigger and better than ever,” said Mayor Laurene Weste. “Not only will it be an amazing display of patriotism, but it will also be an opportunity to show gratitude to our frontline workers who have kept our community, and nation, moving and healthy during the long months of the pandemic. Join your family, friends and neighbors as we come together once again to celebrate the freedoms of our great country.”
SCVTV, our nonprofit community television channel, will provide live coverage via SCVTV.com and Facebook, as well as Spectrum Channel 20, AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, Apple TV and Roku. Tune into the live coverage for exclusive interviews, float-by-float announcing and a multi-camera production. Watch it again at 8 p.m. on July 4 and at various times in the days to follow. Maybe you’ll see yourself!
The Santa Clarita Valley Fourth of July Parade is put on annually by a volunteer committee that includes veterans, city officials, educators and members of local fraternal organizations.
“Our community is more than ready for a return to normalcy, and this could be one of the biggest parades we’ve seen in years,” said Leon Worden, who has chaired the parade since 1996. “We’ve all been through a lot the last two years, and it’s fitting that we honor the people who were there for us – be it an ambulance driver or a teacher who had to adapt to Zoom classes or the person who went to work at the local grocery store day after day without knowing what would come next.”
Worden noted that the 2020-2021 cancellations were the first time since World War II that Newhall skipped the parade. Wartime restrictions put the kibosh on the event from 1942-1944. Otherwise, it has been held annually since 1932.

BEFORE THE PARADE:

6:00am Parade registration opens.
6:30am Equestrian staging begins at Heritage Junction (Hart Park).
6:30am Santa Clarita Rotary Club PANCAKE BREAKFAST in the Roger Dunn Golf parking lot on Main Street between 5th and 6th streets.
7am Street closures are
scheduled to take place.
7am Santa Clarita Runners’
10K RUN-WALK starting and
ending at Newhall Park.
7:30am Equestrian judging at
Heritage Junction (Hart Park).
8am Santa Clarita Runners’
5K RUN-WALK starting and ending
at Newhall Park.
8am Parade registration closes.
9am PARADE BEGINS.

AFTER THE PARADE:

Approx. 11am Lunch at
American Legion Post 507
(next to Old Town Newhall Library)
Approx. 12:30pm Parade
trophies awarded at The Main.
Approx. 9:20pm CITY OF SANTA CLARITA FIREWORKS SHOW at
Westfield Valencia Town Center.