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Join Pasadena Walking Tours on an info-packed perambulation a day or two ahead of the big parade.

Saunter along part of the Rose Parade route with Pasadena Walking Tours at the informative lead.

Missing the Rose Parade, right down to the pool of spit The Japan Honor Green Band dance their way down Colorado Blvd during the 2020 Rose Parade. (Mark Boster / For The Times) Dec. 31, 2020 6 AM PT It’s a tradition, as familiar to Los Angeles’ top high school marching band as the opening notes of “Spanish Skies” or the eight-hour practice marches around Dodger Stadium: The moment they finish the six-mile Rose Parade, members of the band’s massive brass section empty their spit traps, a single, triumphant stream of relief. “It’s really disgusting, but at the end of the...

90 minutes $10 adult There are many lanes, boulevards, and roads in this world, but only a few of them are associated with world-famous, known-far-and-wide, centuries-spanning events. Orange Grove and Colorado Boulevards in Pasadena are two such starry thoroughfares, the sorts of streets that possess a certain cachet, even among those people who've never seen them in person. True, throughout the year, you can find cars motoring along the wide and historic Crown City roadways. And seeing people out strolling the sidewalks with their pups or paramours? That's a given. But on New Year's Day? Se...