Feeling lucky? Tampa traffic might change your mind this St. Patrick’s Day weekend.<\/p>\n
The city’s annual River O’Green and St. Patrick’s Parade is expected to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the downtown area Saturday. The celebration begins at 11 a.m., but you could see the impacts sooner.<\/p>\n
Here’s a list of all the closures to know about this weekend:<\/p>\n
Staging roads close, 9 a.m.<\/p>\n
North Boulevard between Main Street and Cass Street<\/p>\n
Laurel Street between North Boulevard and Doyle Carlton Drive<\/p>\n
Green Street between Laurel Street and North Boulevard<\/p>\n
Cass Street between North Boulevard and Tyler Street<\/p>\n
Parade route closes, 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
Cass Street between Tyler Street and Tampa Street<\/p>\n
Gasparilla Plaza between Cass Street and Ashley Drive<\/p>\n
Ashley Drive between Tyler Street and Kennedy Boulevard<\/p>\n
Marion Street between Cass Street and Kennedy Boulevard<\/p>\n
Franklin Street between Cass Street and Kennedy Boulevard<\/p>\n
Polk St. between Ashley Dr. and Marion St.<\/p>\n
Zack Street between Ashley Drive and Marion Street<\/p>\n
Twiggs Street between Ashley Drive and Marion Street<\/p>\n
Madison Street between Ashley Drive and Pierce Street<\/p>\n
Disbanding roads close, 12 p.m.<\/p>\n
Morgan Street between Cass Street and Kennedy Boulevard<\/p>\n
Polk Street between Marion Street and Pierce Street<\/p>\n
Zack Street between Marion Street and Pierce Street<\/p>\n
Twiggs Street between Marion Street and Pierce Street<\/p>\n
Other closures, 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Florida Avenue between Cass Street and Kennedy Boulevard<\/p>\n
Tampa Street between Kennedy Boulevard and Cass Street<\/p>\n
Poe Garage<\/p>\n
Due to the parade route, no one will be able to enter or exit the Poe Garage between 1:30 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
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To see the full parade route and for additional event info, visit the Tampa Rough Riders’ website<\/a>.<\/p>\n RELATED: Your guide to Tampa’s River O’Green 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Other events expected to bring traffic this weekend include a Zach Bryan concert at Raymond James Stadium and a Lightning game at Benchmark International Arena, both at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n Tampa is also hosting a volleyball tournament Saturday morning at the Convention Center, Yankees Spring Training at Steinbrenner Field at 1 p.m. and multiple shows at the Straz Center.<\/p>\n You can find the latest information on road closures<\/a>, as well as parking options<\/a>, on the city’s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feeling lucky? Tampa traffic might change your mind this St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The city’s annual River O’Green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[88465,88467,88466,135,137,136,88464,88468,77437],"class_list":{"0":"post-188955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-cass-street","9":"tag-kennedy-boulevard","10":"tag-marion-street","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-tampa-street","15":"tag-tyler-street","16":"tag-yankees"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188955","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=188955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}