Pasadena Tournament of Roses

Rose Parade January 1, 2025, 8 a.m.

Best Day Ever! is the 2025 theme

Free to see; $75-125 grandstand ticketed seating: sharpseating.com

January 1 every year, except when January 1 falls on Sunday. Then it is held Jan. 2, tournamentofroses.com

136th Rose Parade on January 1, 2025

• 136th Rose Parade presented by Honda and the College Football Quarterfinal at the 111th Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential
• 2025 Rose Parade theme is Best Day Ever!
• 2025 Parade Opening performances by Kiesza and Aloe Blacc
• Grand Finale  features Debbie Gibson, Betty Who and Debbie Allen Dance Academy

We Love a Parade! Especially when it's the Rose Parade in Pasadena. While California just completed over 100 Christmas parades in the weeks leading up to the new year, you'd be lucky to catch one or two bands marching & performing, a couple equestrian units and mostly home-made floats, often with holiday lights. For those who truly love a parade, these local events make you want more of a good thing and in Pasadena on January 1st, it won't be good. It will be fantastic. Celebrity entertainment with singers, musicians, dozens of bands, the finest horses in equestrian units, and the most beautiful, sweet-smelling floats in the World. You gotta' see it to believe it.

GRAND MARSHAL: Billie Jean King

PARADE ROUTE: The 5.5 mile Rose Parade route begins at the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. The parade travels north on Orange Grove, then turns east onto Colorado Boulevard where the majority of the parade takes place. At the end of the route, the parade turns north onto Sierra Madre Boulevard and ends at Sierra Madre and Villa Street.

PARADE PARTICIPANTS:
30 Bands
18 Equestrian Units
39 Floats
700,000+ Spectators

Volunteer Float Decorating
Various Locations in the Greater Los Angeles Area

DECORATING PLACES December 28-30, 2024
Visitors traditionally do not have to volunteer to see the floats before the parade.
$20 (age 5 & under free), sharpseating.com
Rosemont Pavilion, 700 Seco Street, Pasadena, CA 91103 Brookside Pavilion, Lot I, South Side of Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA 91103

• December 28, 2024, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
• December 29, 2024, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
• December 30, 2024, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 

EQUESTFEST December 29, 2024, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. | Show 12-2 p.m.
Los Angeles Equestrian Center
480 West Riverside Dr.
Burbank, CA
$25 | $50 VIP, sharpseating.com

BANDFEST  December 29-30, 2024
Pasadena City College Robison Stadium
1570 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
$25, sharpseating.com
Of the 20+ marching bands traveling to Pasadena from across the United States and around the world to be in the Rose Parade, see 6-8 marching bands. Before the parade, around 9,500 people purchase tickets to see Bandfest.  

Marching Bands in 2025 Rose Parade:

605 (Southern California) All Star Band
All Star Marching Band (Puebla) Mexico
Banda de Musica Herberto Lopez Colegio (Chitre, Herrera, Panama) Jose Daniel Crespo
Fresno State Bulldog Marching Band
Helsingør Pigegarde (Hornbaek, Denmark) Girls Marching Band
Homestead High School (Cupertino, CA) Mighty Mustang Marching Band and Color Guard
Kyoto (Japan) Tachibana High School Green Band
LAUSD All District High School Honor Band
Pasadena City College Herald Trumpets
Pasadena City College (CA) Tournament of Roses Honor Band
Pebble Hills High School (El Paso, TX) Spartan Marching Band
Rancho Verde (Moreno Valley, CA) Crimson Regiment
Salesians of Don Bosco Southern California High School Band
Seminole (FL) High School Warhawk Marching Band
The Jackson State University Sonic Boom of the South
The Lincoln-Way Marching Band
The New England Honors Marching Band
The Salvation Army Tournament of Roses Band
The University of Wyoming Western Thunder Marching Band
United States Marine Corps West Coast Composite Band

ROSE PARADE FLOAT FEST (Post Parade Viewing)   January 1, 2 & 3, 2025  at Rose Bowl Stadium
Sierra Madre and Washington Boulevards
Pasadena, CA
$25, sharpseating.com
Free shuttle service from several locations (like Pasadena City College) will be necessary to accommodate the 150,000 people buying tickets to this event.

136th ROSE PARADE   January 1, 2025 at 8 a.m.
Orange Grove Blvd. & Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA
Free, ticketed reserved seating available
 
110th ROSE BOWL GAME  January 1, 2025 at 1 p.m.
Rose Bowl Stadium
 $165-up, sharpseating.com
Oregon Ducks VS Ohio State Buckeyes or Tennessee Volunteers
Oregon Ducks, champions of the Big Ten Conference will face the winner of the College Football Playoff's first-round game between Ohio State and Tennessee. The first-round game will take place in Columbus, Ohio on December 21, 2024, 5 p.m. Pacific Time

HISTORY
The Tournament of Roses Rose Parade began as a way to showcase the perfect California weather. The fun has lasted through 2 world wars, depression, and has survived any one person. It is the oldest, biggest flower-float parade anywhere on earth!

It started as a promotional event created by Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena. Circa winter of 1890, the club members sought ways to promote the "Mediterranean of the West," and hatched a plan. They invited their former East Coast neighbors to a mid-winter holiday, where they could watch games such as chariot races, jousting, foot races, polo and tug-of-war under the warm California sun. Fresh flowers in the winter, orange crops, sunshine and shirt sleeves weather, prompted the club to add another showcase for Pasadena's charm: a parade that precede the competition, where entrants would decorate their carriages with hundreds of blooms.

The parade In New York, people are buried in snow- here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise, said Professor Charles Holder at a Club meeting. The Tournament of Roses was born. The Rose Parade is one of the watched events, broadcast on TV around the world.

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