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Balboa Island Parade
Newport Beach, CA · Holiday
- When
- May 23, 2027
- Where
- Marine Avenue · Newport Beach · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A community parade along Marine Avenue on Balboa Island, with floats, marching bands, classic cars, horses and neighborhood groups. The Balboa Island Improvement Association runs it, and the 2026 edition was the 31st. Thousands of residents and visitors attend, and awards are presented at the All Island Pancake Breakfast.
The history within reach
There's always money in the banana stand.
- Get pitted1.1 mi
A FOX 11 crew came down to Orange County in 2002 to shoot a weather story about the swell and stopped Micah Peasley, then twenty, as he came out of the water at the Wedge.
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- The 1933 earthquake6.5 mi
One hundred and twenty people died and school buildings across the region collapsed, had it struck in daytime the toll among children would have been enormous.