{"id":218831,"date":"2026-04-04T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218831\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:15:08","slug":"jacksonvilles-largest-egg-hunt-returned-at-riverfront-palooza-downtown-with-more-than-25000-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218831\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville\u2019s largest egg hunt returned at Riverfront Palooza downtown with more than 25,000 eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A countdown from Mayor Donna Deegan kicked off Riverfront Palooza Saturday morning, and seconds later kids and families sprinted into Jacksonville\u2019s largest egg hunt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">More than 25,000 eggs were spread across the Riverfront Plaza ahead of Easter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cLast year, we did Friendship Fountain. Admittedly, we had a huge turnout last year, we had too few mini eggs this year,\u201d said Garrett Callis, Community Programs manager with Jax Parks. \u201cWe\u2019ve greatly increased that, as you can see, we\u2019re rocking and rolling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The egg hunt featured take-off time for five different age groups ranging from 0-12. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI love the fact that Jacksonville\u2019s utilizing the space with the Landing gone now,\u201d said parent William Guzman. \u201cMaking things happen here is, I think, super important, especially for the kids and stuff like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Families could enjoy face painting, live music and other games.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 A countdown from Mayor Donna Deegan kicked off Riverfront Palooza Saturday morning, and seconds later&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2318,1039,75103,116,118,117,16629],"class_list":{"0":"post-218831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-downtown","9":"tag-duval-county","10":"tag-easter","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-riverfront-plaza"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218831","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=218831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}