Rainier Round-Up Days Parade Application for 2018

Rainier Round-Up Days Parade Videos

For a real, good "hometown" feel, come to Rainier.  We're a small community.  Our downtown area is small, but we have the best homemade cookies in the state - freshly baked at "Main Street Cookies" right in downtown Rainier!  Across the street - you can shop at "Ginger Street" for great gifts and collectibles.  

Almost 50 groups participated in the Rainier Round-Up Days Parade.  The parade goes along Highway 507 for about 1/2 a mile.  It's perfect!  Almost everyone in town is either in the parade, or they're watching the parade from the sidewalks.  

For an honest mechanic, check out Turner Automotive - in the gray building in the parade videos.  You'll be pleasantly surprised!

You can see our downtown area in Wally Brown's parade videos below:

Rainier Round-Up Days Parade Part 1

Rainier Roundup Parade Part 2

Rainier Round-Up Days Parade

My husband, George, told me that the Rainier Round-up Days Parade had 4 or 5 floats.  No big deal, right???  WRONG!!!  This was better then the Daffodil Parade.  This is Small Town America in ACTION!!!  I am still impressed with this parade & the small community of Rainier.

Rainier Round-Up Days Parade was fabulous!  Main Street was lined up with people for blocks - on both sides - several people deep to watch the parade!  The people who weren't in the parade, were watching it.  We had over 44 groups in the parade - including all of the football players & cheerleaders from Rainier Public Schools, a fire & logging truck.  There here dozens of motorbike & ATV riders!  

The photos below go from the start to the finish of the parade: 

My grandson, Sean Thorning, wore the Rainier Lions Club mascot costume on the winning Bluegrass Pickin' Party Float.  Pat (our son) drove the red truck that hauled this float.