Tampa’s Downtown event site.<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDowntown Tampa parking <\/p>\n
Those who plan to drive to the event can park in the Fort Brooke Garage at 107 N. Franklin Street, or the Twiggs Garage at 901 E. Twiggs Street.<\/p>\n
You can also park in Ybor City and take the TECO Streetcar, for free, to Whiting Station.<\/p>\n
If you plan to use public transit, HART’s free Route 1 or other HART bus routes will get you to the festival.<\/p>\n
For bicyclists, free on-site valet will be provided courtesy of the Tampa Downtown Partnership.<\/p>\n
\nRiver O’ Green road & waterway closures <\/p>\n
Even if you won’t be at the festival, it could impact your Saturday.<\/p>\n
Tampa police are advising of the following road closures on March 14:<\/p>\n
Ashley Drive – Closes at 11 a.m.Gasparilla Plaza – Changes direction at 11 a.m., closes at 1 p.m.Cass Street at Ashley Drive – Closes at 1 p.m.All road closures are expected to be lifted at 7 p.m. <\/p>\n
Boaters should be aware that the Hillsborough River between Cass Street and Kennedy Boulevard closes from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 14.<\/p>\n
River O’Green is one of the region’s largest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. It draws thousands of residents and visitors to Downtown every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual St. Patty’s Day celebration returns March 14. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 What’s the craic? Tampa’s River O’Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-170325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}