Don't miss the return of the Totowa, Woodland Park and Little Falls holiday parade
Each holiday season, hundreds of drivers who frequent Route 80 and Route 23 spy the cement mixer festooned with holiday lights driving up and down the highway.
The mixer belongs to Salomone Brothers of Wayne, and each year the company decks it out with holiday lights, in part to participate in Passaic Valley's annual holiday parade.
It will join about 100 light-strewn trucks and holiday floats expected to take part in Saturday's Totowa, Woodland Park and Little Falls Fire Department Holiday Parade of Lights.
Although the parade doesn't step off until after the holiday tree lighting, which happens at 4:45 p.m., a holiday festival will be held on McBride Avenue in Woodland Park from 1 to 4:30 p.m. It features dozens of vendors, food, entertainment, and activities for the kids.
Also expected are carolers, food trucks and DJ music, as well as horse-and-carriage rides from 2 to 5 p.m. and an outdoor ice skating rink from 1 to 5 p.m. At about 4:30 p.m. the band from Memorial Middle School in Woodland Park will provide holiday spirit with live music before the tree lighting.
Santa will assist in lighting the tree, and afterward he will be in a gazebo at Dowling Gardens to greet the kids.
Totowa, West Paterson and Little Falls holiday parade route
The Holiday Parade of Lights will kick off in Little Falls at Passaic Valley High School at 5 p.m. and travel through the three towns.
More than 100 brightly decorated vehicles and floats will be featured as the parade heads down Main Street in Little Falls before making a right onto Maple Street and finally a right onto Paterson Avenue, sending the parade into Woodland Park.
The parade route then winds its way to McBride Avenue. It will make a right onto Dowling Parkway and a right onto Wallace Lane, and will proceed to where it will make a left onto Hromiak Terrace, a left onto Vetrone Drive, and then a left onto Browertown Road, making its way back to McBride Avenue.
There the parade turns left onto Hillery Street, entering Totowa, and continues on Totowa Road, turning left onto Union Boulevard and concluding at Crews Street.
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As in past years, elves along the parade route will be collecting toys for Hackensack Meridian Health's Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital. Toys will also be distributed to less fortunate families within local communities.
The borough is also collecting gift cards in any denomination to benefit the less fortunate. They can be brought to the big red mailbox at the clock tower in Dowling Gardens during the event.
Roads along the parade route will begin to close around 4 p.m. Spectators can park in neighborhoods along the route, as well as at two locations in Woodland Park: 1225 McBride Ave. and the Park West Meadows Shopping Plaza.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Totowa, Woodland Park and Little Falls holiday parade returns
