Festival Fun for Everyone

Details about the Sacramento Pride Festival

Sacramento Pride consists of a parade and festival.  The parade is free and starts at 10:00 am from 5th & S streets and marches north towards the festival.  The festival costs $10 per person (children five and under are free) and is located on Capitol Mall near the Tower Bridge, between 3rd and 7th streets.

Transit and Bicycles

Pride is easy to get to without a car!

• Light Rail:  Let our Pride sponsor Regional Transit drop you off right at our front door — the Capitol Mall stops are right here!
• Amtrak:  The Sacramento Amtrak station is only a few blocks from the festival.  Exit the station on 5th Street and walk south three blocks to our entrance gate.
• Bicycle:  We will have a free bike corral area near the 7th Street entrance.  Bring your own lock.

Driving Directions

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From the Roseville/Auburn areas (80 corridor)

• Take I-80 west.  At the split (just past Madison), stay in the left lanes and continue in the San Francisco direction.
• Right after the Truxel exit, take I-5 south (towards Los Angeles) and you will come into downtown
• Exit on J Street, and stay in your right lane on the exit.
• You will turn right on 3rd Street – you will see the Holiday Inn on your left.  Stay in your left lane.
• Look for our friendly folks jumping around to direct you into the garages at 3rd & N and 4th & N

From the Bay Area, Fairfield, Davis areas

• Take I-80 east (towards Reno).  But once you’re in West Sacramento, keep moving ahead onto Highway 50.  Don’t take the exit to Reno – keep heading towards downtown Sacramento.
• Take I-5 north (towards Redding).
• Exit on J Street, and stay in your right lane on the exit.
• You will turn right on 3rd Street – you will see the Holiday Inn on your left.  Stay in your left lane.
• Look for our friendly folks jumping around to direct you into the garages at 3rd & N and 4th & N

From Folsom, Rancho Cordova, and the Highway 50 folks

• Take Highway 50 east towards downtown Sacramento
• Exit at 10th Street, follow the signs to turn right on 10th
• Take 10th Street north, past the Capitol building, until you hit L Street.  Hint:  be in your left lane as you’re passing the State Capitol
• Turn left on L Street
• Turn left on 7th Street, and look for our friendly folks jumping around to direct you to the garage at 7th & L.

Parking

Official Pride Parking is offered in three garages:

• 300 Capitol Mall (Westamerica Bank) — enter on 3rd Street before N
• 400 Capitol Mall (Wells Fargo Tower) — enter from N Street, turning left on 4th
• 621 Capitol Mall (U.S. Bank Tower) — enter on 7th Street just south of L

Each of these garages is offering a flat fee of $10 for the entire day, with a portion of the fee coming back to Pride.  Parking is also available in other garages and on the streets.  Please remember that on-street parking is enforced on Saturdays – so feed that meter and pay attention to the time limits!  Don’t come back to a nasty parking ticket.

More things to know:

• Come early to catch the parade — park in the garages and take a quick walk south on 5th Street.  Parade starts at 10 – get there by 9:30.
• Please leave your pets at home.  Large crowds and hot streets aren’t great places for even the best behaved dog in the world.  Pride is really more of a people event.  If you want a dog activity, consider the Sacramento SPCA’s Doggie Dash the morning of Pride — have fun with the pooch, take Fido home, then come to Pride.
• Please avoid bringing large coolers into Pride.  We have lots of food and beverage – at reasonable prices.  Coolers are a problem in large crowds.
• Make a weekend adventure!  The Citizen Hotel has a great $99 room night special on Pride Weekend.  Click here for more information.

Headline Entertainment

We are excited to have an amazing line-up of headliners to entertain you at Pride this year…

COMING SOON!

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