Get ready…this is what you need to join the Big Parade (links are to PDF documents.)

• The “How To,” which details how you can join us, what to bring, what to expect, etc.
• The Day One schedule, which will tell you what you’ll see and when on Saturday, May 19.
• The Day Two schedule, for Sunday, May 20.
• The transportation info sheet, if you want to take the bus or train to join us. 
• For zoomable versions of the maps - good for at-your-desk viewing (the PDFs are better for actually joining us) go here for Day One and here for Day Two.

Saturday will include a kid’s segment; a guided tour of the Los Angeles River; the Echo Park Arts Walk; Angelino Heights Victorian architecture; Silverlake; and finally the Music Box Stairs (and a Laurel & Hardy movie.)

Sunday will include Silverlake, including the urban wilderness of the old Corralitas Red Car Property;  music by Steve Moramarco (of the Abe Lincoln Story);  a compact loop of 12 stairways in the Franklin Hills; a walk through Griffith Park led by Mike Eberts, author of “Griffith Park: A Centennial History,” and - as we approach the Hollywood Sign - a genuine eclipse.

And don’t forget, there’s a prologue walk on Friday, May 18, if you’re really ready to go. Info here. 

The Big Parade is a two-day walk through Los Angeles that will start in downtown, at the famous Angel’s Flight Stairway, and finish at the Hollywood Sign above Beachwood Canyon. Day One ends - and Day Two begins - at the famous music Music Box Stairs - site of the Oscar-winning Laurel & Hardy film of the same name - in Silverlake. It will take place May 19 and 20, 2012. Each day includes a main segment of about five miles; the walk runs on a schedule so that people can join and leave the group as we progress.

We always walk together, at the pace of the slowest walker. Nobody gets left behind!

There’s also going to be a prologue on Friday, May 18, 2012, led by Bob Inman, covering the stairways between Eagle Rock and downtown. 

Remember—and this is most important: This is a community walk. That means we stay together as a group, and it means that YOU CAN DO IT! Why? Because we break the walk into segments so that walkers of all ages and levels of fitness can join us at specific times (of course, anyone is welcome to meet us at any point along the way - and all are invited to join us at the end to celebrate the walk).

A core group of will be doing the entire event. But - as the name “Big Parade” implies - the true nature of the journey is public-based. In addition to passing dozens of landmarks, we will be joined by community members, both individuals and in groups, as we pass through the city’s most diverse neighborhoods. The walk is broken into specific segments.

Among the other features of the walk will be:

- Ramps, tunnels, and little-known passageways that reveal LA’s pedestrian character.

- Art, art, art—on the streets and all along the way.

- Cross country and trail segments in Echo Park, Silverlake, and Griffith Park.

- Landmarks that are famous, not-so-famous, infamous, and just-plain-weird (over thirty of them, mapped and ready for viewing)

- Music.

- Visits with community groups and local organizations.

- AND A MOVIE/PARTY Saturday night at the Music Box steps. 

Now that you know, JOIN US!