ATLANTA — Atlanta is set to be filled with celebrations Saturday and Sunday for the city's Pride Weekend, which will be accompanied by a number of street closures as the big Pride Parade and several other marches focus around Downtown and Piedmont Park.
Here's a rundown of street closures to be aware of as Atlanta celebrates Pride:
Atlanta Pride Weekend street closures around Downtown and Piedmont Park | List
- Sunday, West Peachtree Street to Ralph McGill Blvd. to Peachtree Street to 10th Street: This will be the big closure for the Atlanta Pride Parade. It begins at noon at an assembly area that will be at the MARTA Civic Center Station on West Peachtree. It will travel down to Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. then a block over to Peachtree Street, then travel up a little more than a mile along a main parade route to 10th Street, before it goes east on 10th to Piedmont Park at the Charles Allen Drive gate. Closures will be in place along this route as the parade lasts approximately four hours, and 10th Street will be closed for an hour after the parade for crowd clearance.
- 10th Street partial operational closure: Organizers say off-duty officers will be stationed at 10th and Monroe and 10th and Myrtle, at both ends of Piedmont Park, for most of the day Friday-Sunday. The 10th Street lane closest to the park will be closed from Monroe to Charles Allen Drive for loading, operational and emergency parking purposes. The lane reopens for nighttime traffic.
- Multiple temporary/partial march closures on Saturday, from 10th Street to Peachtree Street to 14th Street: First, the Atlanta Pride Trans March will take palace at 1:45 p.m. The Bi & Pan March will take place at 3:30 p.m. Then the Dyke March will happen at 5 p.m. Each of these processions will involve marchers exiting Piedmont Park at the Charles Allen Gate, going down 10th Street to Peachtree, turning up toward 14th, and going back east on 14th to the park. Organizers say each march lasts about 30 minutes, and street closures will not be full -- just two lanes. Lanes will close as marchers approach and reopen as they pass. No closures are expected to last longer than about 10 minutes.