Newport St. Patrick’s Day Parade to kick off Saturday

NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) — The Newport St. Patrick’s Day parade will take place Saturday, March 16 starting at 11 a.m.

The parade will start from Newport City Hall at 43 Broadway and staging will begin at 9 a.m.

The parade route will proceed down Broadway and into Washington Square, continue down Thames Street and onto America’s Cup Avenue.

The route will then take the parade onto Thames Street and it will end on Carroll Avenue at St. Augustin’s Church.

There will be a parking ban from 5 a.m. until 3 p.m. on the following streets:

• Broadway from Cranston Avenue to Washington Square at Thames Street
• Equality Park Place and Equality Park West
• The west side of Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland Blvd
• Lower Thames Street from America’s Cup Avenue to Morton Avenue
• Carroll Avenue from Morton Avenue to Harrison Avenue
• Narragansett Avenue between Spring Street and Bellevue Avenue and both sides of America’s Cup Avenue at the Gateway center

Heavy traffic is expected in Newport and with limited parking there will be public parking at the Gateway Center on America’s Cup Avenue and the Waterfront Lot on Mary Street.

There will be uniformed and plainclothes Newport police officers on the routes and city ordinances will be strictly enforced.

This includes open containers of alcohol in public, underage drinking, disorderly conduct and noise violations.