2026 Dallas St. Patrick’s Day Parade: When does it start? Where can you park? What roads are closed?

DALLAS — Dallas’ celebration of the 12 months is sort of right here.

The 2026 Dallas St. Patrick’s Parade & Festival is about for Saturday, March 14, alongside Greenville Ave. in Dallas. The occasion and surrounding after-parties draw tens of hundreds of individuals to the world annually, and the parade is billed as the biggest St. Patrick’s Day occasion within the Southwest.

So if you’re not going to the parade and pageant, it’s most likely finest to keep away from the decrease Greenville space. But if you’re searching for a celebration, it’s proper the place you need to be.

Here’s every thing to know, together with tips on how to keep away from getting in a site visitors mess:

The parade will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., however the pageant begins earlier, at 9 a.m., and runs to three p.m.

The parade is free to attend. 

The parade will begin on Greenville Avenue at Blackwell Street, simply north of Northwest Highway, and head south to SMU Boulevard, a distance of about two miles.

The quick reply: Parking is proscribed, attempt to take DART to the Lovers Lane and Park Lane stations if you can. Restaurants alongside the parade route may provide paid parking, however no parking will probably be allowed alongside the parade route, or on the following areas from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.:

Central Expressway Service Road from Mockingbird to Park Lane; Meadows Building, Campbell Center, Comerica Bank, AT&T Concentra Care, CVS and Office Depot parking heaps, in addition to The Gild at 8350 N. Central Expwy.

Dallas officials are shutting down several streets, except for the parade route closure alongside Greenville Avenue.

First, there’s the St. Paddy’s Day Dash Down Greenville 5K that begins at 8 a.m. that may power the next highway closures beginning at 6 a.m. till runners go by way of:

• E. University Blvd. – from N. Central Expwy. to Skillman St.
• Skillman St. – from E. University Blvd. to Southwestern Blvd.
• Southwestern Blvd. – from Skillman St. to Caruth Haven Ln.
• Caruth Haven Ln. – from Southwestern Blvd. to Greenville Ave.
• Greenville Ave. – from Caruth Haven Ln. to Energy Square.

For the parade and pageant, the next roads will probably be closed:

• Greenville Avenue from Park Lane to Mockingbird Lane, 9:45 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For the St. Patrick’s Day Concert, the next roads will probably be closed: 

• E. University Blvd. – from N. Central Expwy to Greenville Ave., 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

For the annual St. Patrick’s Day Block Party on Lower Greenville, the next closures will probably be in place:

• Greenville Avenue between 2700 and 3000 blocks, 7 a.m. to eight:15 p.m.

• Goodwin Avenue from Worcola Street to Matilda Street
• Vanderbilt Avenue from Worcola Street to Matilda Street
• Vickery Boulevard from Worcola Street to Matilda Street.
• Greenville Avenue from McCommas Blvd to Belmont Boulevard

The following streets will probably be designated resident site visitors solely – no by way of site visitors from 7 a.m. – 8:15 p.m.  

• Greenville Avenue from McCommas Boulevard to Belmont Avenue
• Morningside Avenue 
• Mercedes Avenue
• Merrimac Avenue
• Monticello Avenue
• Ridgedale Avenue
• Vanderbilt Avenue
• Goodwin Avenue
• Vickery Boulevard

While the parade is free, the St. Patrick’s Day Concert and the Block Party on Lower Greenville are not. General admission tickets for the live performance price $99. Entry to the St. Patrick’s Day Block Party is about to price $20 per particular person and is money solely. Attendees have to be 21 or older and have a sound ID. 

This 12 months, the parade is being placed on by an entity known as the Navarro-Gambit Experience. The group was fashioned by Mauricio Navarro, who has helped produce the parade since 2013, and Sergio Godinez of the occasion planning firm Gambit Group. Navarro stated organizing the occasion was a part of his DNA.