Woodbury Fall Festival Parade
Woodbury, NJ · Festival
- When
- October 3, 2026
- Where
- Broad Street (Route 45), Colonial Ave to Salem Ave · Woodbury · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Woodbury has marched this civic parade down Broad Street every first Saturday of October for more than 75 years, with floats, marching bands and local organizations. It is the Gloucester County seat's longest-running community tradition.
The history within reach
The Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and the mothball fleet was the first naval shipyard in the country, employing 40,000 people at its wartime peak.
- Broad Street Run4.0 mi
A ten mile road race down Broad Street from North Philadelphia to the Navy Yard, one of the largest ten mile runs in the country.
- Fort Mifflin4.1 mi
Held for five weeks against the heaviest bombardment of the Revolution, which killed some 250 of its 400 defenders and bought Washington time to reach Valley Forge.
The Dutch West India Company put a trading post called Fort Nassau near the mouth of Big Timber Creek in 1623, the first European foothold on the Delaware and the beginning of Gloucester City.
The US leg opened to a crowd that had largely agreed in advance to wear silver, following a request she had made for a show weeks earlier in Europe.