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Pasadena Holiday Tournament of Roses House Tour 2026
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“The Rose Parade house tours run the week of New…”
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Everyone watches the floats roll down Colorado Boulevard on New Year's morning. Almost nobody sees the wire skeleton underneath, or the volunteers on scaffolding placing individual flowers by hand in the cold days beforehand.
The Decorating Facilities Walk gets you into the barns while the floats are half-finished, which is the only state in which you truly understand them. Every surface is organic material, seeds and petals and bark, glued on one piece at a time until an image resolves out of it, and the more of that process you watch the more absurd and moving the finished parade becomes. The association behind all of it has been running the parade since the eighteen-nineties, and its house on Orange Grove opens for tours as well.
Pasadena in December, in the last weeks before the first, tickets through the association.
Go once and you will never watch the parade the same way again. Take whoever watches it with you every year.
The Decorating Facilities Walk gets you into the barns while the floats are half-finished, which is the only state in which you truly understand them. Every surface is organic material, seeds and petals and bark, glued on one piece at a time until an image resolves out of it, and the more of that process you watch the more absurd and moving the finished parade becomes. The association behind all of it has been running the parade since the eighteen-nineties, and its house on Orange Grove opens for tours as well.
Pasadena in December, in the last weeks before the first, tickets through the association.
Go once and you will never watch the parade the same way again. Take whoever watches it with you every year.
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