Portland Rose Festival 2023

Live Stream, TV, Schedule, Events

The Portland Rose Festival is a huge annual flower festival that takes place in Portland, Oregon and is the largest and longest running event of it's type anywhere in the United States, an impressive claim in a country that has a huge number of people interested in flower festivals all across the country.

The Rose Festival represents so much more than just looking at flowers though, also incorporating the Portland City Fair, what includes fireworks and festivities across three weekends in late May and early June and a series of parades that draw massive crowds out onto the city streets, leading up to the climax of the event...

Which is of course the world famous Portland Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade, which is watched by an audience estimated at half a million on the streets itself, and now by even more worldwide thanks to the introduction of TV coverage and a live stream webcast - see below for more details on how to watch live.

Rose Festival Dates

The Portland Rose Festival 2023 will take place from 27th May to 11th June.

Event Details

The main events to look out for are (we've broken down the main events into individual categories for the main highlights, click on the links below to visit the relevant pages):

City Fair - Begining with a concert and fireworks on opening night on the 26th May (best viewed from Tom McCall Waterfront Park). Throughout the festival you can enjoy food, carnival rides and great entertainment on the waterfront. 26th May - 11th June

Starlight Parade - 3 June at 7.30pm

Starlight Run - 3 June at 6pm

Junior Parade - 7th June at 1pm

Fleet Week - 7th - 11th June

Spring Rose Show - 8th - 9th June

Grand Floral Parade - 10 June 10am - 12 noon.

Dragon Boat Race - 10 June 8am to 5pm, held over 2 days at Tom McCall Waterfront Park

Organised by the Portland Rose Society, this is the original and biggest Rose Show anywhere in the United States

You can see the full event calendar for the entire festival, including shows, parades and Dragon Boat races, here

Rose Festival calendar

TV, Live Streaming

In previous years the only way to see the events at the Portland Rose Festival was to attend in person, but this year there is TV coverage and live online streaming being provided of the main highlights by local networks TV channel Fox 12 Oregon, with coverage of all of the parades in particular, especially the popular Starlight Parade and the trademark Grand Floral Parade:

Portland Rose Festival streaming

Hotels and Accommodation

If you are visiting Portland for the Rose Festival then you will find plenty of accommodation options to choose from, with most budgets catered for. The hotels in Portland tend to be reasonably priced compared to many larger US cities, but prices do tend to peak during the festival so it is wise to book well in advance.

You can check availability and make reservations for local hotels here.

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