LA Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade 2027

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Firecrackers go off in long strings and the sound comes back off the buildings on Broadway, doubled, so that for a few seconds you cannot tell where the street ends.

Then the lions come. Troupes out of kung fu schools all over the region, some of them kids, weaving through a crowd that has stood on this sidewalk for generations: grandparents who watched this parade as children now holding grandchildren who will do the same. Marching bands, community floats, dragon dances, and a festival that spills off Broadway into the plazas with food, lanterns, and calligraphers working in the open where you can stand and watch the brush move.

Chinatown, free to stand and watch, and take Metro, because the parking disappears hours ahead of you.

This one runs on the Year of the Goat. Bring whoever in your family has been meaning to take you to something like this and never quite got around to it.