03/15/2025
HAPPY St. Patrick's Day ☘️! Hope everyone has a SAFE and FUN holiday today! Here's some info from the parades website!
The Dogtown Irish Festival begins at 9:00 a.m. The festival will feature food and drinks from numerous vendors.
The Bud Light Party Zone, located at Clayton and Tamm, will feature a DJ on the Red Bull main stage from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Food and merchandise will be available for purchase from local businesses and vendors in the POWERS Insurance and Risk Management Vendor Village, which will also host the LIT Cigar Lounge Patio.
The Dogtown Pizza Family Zone will feature Irish music throughout the day on the Andrew Broombaugh State Farm Stage, as well as additional vendor booths with family-friendly activities and games.
The Irish Culture Zone at St. James the Greater will feature traditional food and Irish music (more below).
All outside sales in the festival area will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will end promptly at 6:00 p.m. Establishments on Tamm will close at 8:00 p.m.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick’s Day Parade, starts at 11:00 a.m. and lasts approximately two hours.
This year’s parade will contain almost 100 units featuring floats highlighting Irish dancing, music and salutes to Irish history and culture. Like traditional parades held in the Emerald Isle on Saint Patrick's feast day, a good portion of St. Louis' Irish American community will be marching as clans under their family crests and banners.
Ride Sharing area for both cabs and ride-sharing services on Oakland, just west of Hampton, and on Mitchell, as it meets Manchester.
* Wells Drive in Forest Park between Government Drive and Tamm Avenue overpass
* Oakland between just west of Art Hill to just east of Graham
* Tamm between Oakland and Manchester
* The following streets between Childress and Graham: Berthold, Clayton, Victoria, West Park, Nashville, Wade, and Lloyd, Brockschmidt and all alleys
* Childress from Brockschmidt to Oakland will be re-directed to ONE-WAY traffic heading NORTH; There will be No Parking on the west side of Childress in this area
* Graham will be closed to traffic between Oakland and Victoria
* Graham from Victoria to Manchester will be re-directed to ONE-WAY traffic heading SOUTH; there will be No Parking on the east side of Graham in this area.
* Crescent from Clayton to Hampton will be re-directed to one-way traffic heading EAST (reverse of its normal direction)
* The entire Bud Light Party Zone will be closed 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., which includes Tamm Avenue from Berthold to West Park, Wise from Tamm to just east of Childress, and Clayton from just east of Childress to east of Graham.
* Sections of Manchester will be closed to various degrees to provide additional safety for parade participants.
* From McCausland to Mitchell, Manchester will be closed EXCEPT for local traffic and parking access.
* From Mitchell to Gregg, Manchester will be closed entirely.
* From Gregg to Hampton, Manchester will be closed with strictly limited access to residential traffic.
* The above closures will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with the exception that the intersection of Manchester and Tamm will be closed from 6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
A "No Parking" zone will be established along the parade route. Signs will be posted in No Parking areas several days before the event. The No Parking order will go into effect promptly at 6:00 a.m. on March 17 and will not end until 10:00 p.m. Cars parked in this area will be ticketed and towed! If possible, avoid parking on the parade route on Wednesday night to avoid the hassle of moving your car early in the morning!
Because we are ordering many dumpsters and portable toilets, deliveries of these items must begin approximately two days before the event. Small 100-feet No Parking areas will be designated on every cross street of Tamm in both directions beginning Tuesday morning for equipment staging. Please excuse this inconvenience.
To depart the festival area: If you are parked to the west of Tamm, please depart the neighborhood heading west toward McCausland or Skinker. If you are parked east of Tamm, please depart heading east toward Hampton.
The St. Louis Zoo will have their parking lots open for a fee. The large lot north of I-64 is accessible via Wells Drive westbound, using the traffic circle on Hampton Avenue. Please note, you cannot access this lot from eastbound on Wells via Skinker or the Tamm Avenue overpass due to street closures. The Zoo lots located off Oakland and Berthold will also be open. You can access these from Hampton either by going westbound down Oakland or westbound down Berthold.
The St. James the Greater Parish Park Lot is available for a fee, with access only from Tamm and Manchester between 6:00 and 9:00 a.m., and exiting allowed only after 3:00 p.m. Tamm will be open until 8:00 a.m. for vehicles en route to park at the St. James parking lot.
Parking is also available for a fee in the lots of the St. Louis Marketplace on the south side of Manchester and Colombo’s Cafe & Tavern on the north side of Manchester. Note: These lots will be accessible regardless of Manchester street closures, but must be accessed from the west. See above street map for details.
These parking lots are operated independently and are not affiliated with the Dogtown Irish Festival.
Once these lots are full, please do not attempt to park on public streets within the festival area of the Dogtown neighborhood. These streets fill up with cars very early in the morning. Out of respect to local residents and to prevent traffic congestion, instead of parking locally, please consider arranging to get a ride to and from the festival.
In order to protect residents and festival attendees, we will continue to prohibit coolers, backpacks and glass bottles from the festival area. Outside alcohol is also prohibited. None of these items will be allowed into the festival area or past any checkpoints. Containers necessary for child care purposes will be permitted.
BEADS ARE BACK!
if you haveve any further questions check out the website!
https://www.dogtownunited.org/faqs
