{"id":4437,"date":"2012-02-27T12:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T20:45:48","slug":"irish-eyes-are-smiling-at-san-francisco-san-diego-hermosa-beach-st-patricks-day-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/irish-eyes-are-smiling-at-san-francisco-san-diego-hermosa-beach-st-patricks-day-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Eyes are Smiling at San Francisco, San Diego, Hermosa Beach St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sdstpat2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a FANTASTIC year. In addition to the bonus Leap Day on February 29,\u00a0 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day falls on Saturday, March 17, 2012, and so do many of the St. Patty&#8217;s Day parades, parties and festivals.\u00a0 Nearly every city and town in California\u00a0 will be celebrating on Saturday, March 17, 2012. San Francisco has a concentration Irish pubs &amp; bars, and is considered one of the top cities in the U.S. for St. Patrick&#8217;s Day fun, though San Diego gives San Francisco a run for its money on a day when everything GREEN is celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>There are three well known St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parades in California held on Saturday closest to St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, and amazingly, the parades have the state covered from north to south.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>San Francisco St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade &amp; Festival<\/strong> &#8211; 161st Annual St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade\u00a0 on Saturday, March 17th, 2012, begins at 11:30 a.m. at corner of\u00a0 Second and Market all the way to City Hall. Largest event west of the Mississippi includes the free St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Festival at Civic Center Plaza on Grove Street, Polk to Larkin Street,\u00a0 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.\u00a0 sresproductions.com\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hermosa Beach St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; Begins on March 17, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Pier Avenue &amp; Valley Drive.\u00a0 7 block parade route begins at Valley Drive, travels down Pier Avenue and ends at the corner of Hermosa Avenue and 10th Street. Call: (310) 376-0951, hbchamber.net<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/parades\/san-diego-stpatricks-parade.html\">San Diego St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade<\/a><\/strong> on March 17, 2012 marches down 5th Avenue &amp; Junipero\u00a0 at 10:30 a.m., with the festival held at Balboa Park all day long. stpatsparade.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other March 17, 2012 events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/san-diego-gaslamp-shamrock-festival.html\"><strong>San Diego ShamROCK<\/strong><\/a> is a Gaslamp Quarter production to rival its Mardi Gras celebration. Does San Diego ever quit partying? 17th annual ShamROCK at Gaslamp Quarter on Saturday, March 17, 2012 goes from 2 p.m. to Midnight and is billed as the biggest Irish Celebration on the West Coast. Tickets: $35 pre, $45 day of.\u00a0 Buy: SanDiegoShamrock.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Costa Mesa &#8211;<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/costa-mesa-stpatricks-day.html\">Orange County Market Place St. Patrick&#8217;s Day <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 on March 17, 2012 includes dancers from top Irish dance schools in California, entertainment, and lots of shopping and food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a FANTASTIC year. In addition to the bonus Leap Day on February 29,\u00a0 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day falls on Saturday, March 17, 2012, and so do many of the St. Patty&#8217;s Day parades, parties and festivals.\u00a0 Nearly every city and town in California\u00a0 will be celebrating on Saturday, March 17, 2012. San Francisco has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}