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Snowdown parade to alter traffic

Erika Wilson Golightly of Asa Fire Tribe performs at last year’s Snowdown Light Parade. The 2015 version begins at 6 p.m. Friday.

Traffic will be diverted Friday afternoon and evening in downtown Durango to prepare for and hold the Snowdown Light Parade on Main Avenue.

The details:

Crews and equipment with police escorts will be setting up barricades in lanes of traffic on Main Avenue, between Fifth and 12th streets.

The 500 block of Main will be closed at 2:45 p.m. Also, Fifth Street will be closed from Main to East Third Avenue.

Beginning at 3:45 p.m., Main Avenue traffic from College Drive to 13th Street will be detoured to Narrow Gauge Avenue or East Second Avenue. City crews will be setting up the Snowdown Light Parade pedestrian barricades at that time.

No parking will be permitted on Main Avenue and on Narrow Gauge from 11th to 12th streets.

All of the above streets will be posted “No Parking,” with specific times, at least 24 hours in advance. Vehicles illegally parked will be subject to towing at the owner’s expense.

Free parking at the La Plata County Fairgrounds and Durango High School lots will be available. The Snowdown Board of Directors is sponsoring free trolley rides between the fairgrounds to downtown from 5-9 p.m.

The parade begins at 6 p.m. and trophies will be awarded to participants in 10 categories.



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