Cherokee Indian Fair Parade 2023

Tuesday, October 3 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Join the spectacle of the Annual Cherokee Indian Fair Parade, featuring vibrant floats, marching bands, and beautiful smiling faces!

Parade Schedule

10AM - Road Closure
10:30AM - Commercial Floats
11AM - Floats Arriving
2:30PM - Judging of Floats
3PM - Parade Starts

The parade will start from the Casino Trail/intersection, taking a left onto 19 South through downtown Cherokee, crossing the bridge turning right onto 441 North, and ending at the traffic light by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The parade will then turn right across the bridge, taking the roundabout up toward the Ginger Lynn Complex to disband. Vehicles will disband to the left in GLW parking, and all floats will disband taking the route behind the Ginger Welch Complex.

For more information or to participate in the parade, reach out to Josie Long at the Cherokee Welcome Center.

Location:

The parade will start from the Casino Trail/intersection and end at the Ginger Lynn Complex.

Cherokee, NC 28719

Contact: Cherokee Welcome Center - Josie Long
Phone: (828) 359-6490
Email:

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Tagged fish will be specially stocked for this event, and when you catch one, you redeem it for cash prizes at the Natural Resources Enforcement Office, 517 Sequoyah Trail, Cherokee, NC 28719, which is across the street from Cherokee Welcome Center off Hwy 441. Prize redemption hours are from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each tournament day, with a final tag turn in time of 4 p.m. on day two.

Register anywhere fishing licenses are sold or at FishCherokee.com by Friday, August 23,2024. Fishing hours are one hour before sunrise and end one hour after sunset each day. Open to all ages and for all legal fishing methods.

Fisheries & Wildlife Management reserves the right to cancel, reschedule, or amend any tournament or event due to catastrophes, pandemics, states of emergency, adverse weather, etc.