Harvest Parade & Festival

On the grounds of Jurupa Valley City Hall, 8930 Limonite Avenue, the city sets out a pumpkin patch where families pick a pumpkin to carry home, while supplies last. Nearby are tables for pumpkin decorating, caramel apples, inflatables, fall-themed activities for children, and a live DJ. Everything is free, and giveaways go out until they run out. The City of Jurupa Valley runs the whole morning, parade and festival together. In 2026 it falls on Saturday, October 10, from 9 a.m. to noon.

Floats on Limonite Avenue

The parade comes first, and the festival follows it. The city’s notices for the 2026 edition promise community floats and performances, and its call for entrants asked groups to decorate a float or march for an organization or business. Limonite Avenue closes at Bain Street and Collins Street. Spectators park at City Hall, at the Santa Ana River Park lot at 64th Street and Downey Avenue, or in designated neighborhood areas. A free shuttle runs through the event from those lots to the parade staging area and to City Hall.

The 2026 schedule is shorter and starts earlier than the one the city tried the year before, when the parade and festival were new.

The first parade, October 2025

The city held its first Harvest Parade and Festival on Saturday, October 11, 2025. As the city announced it and as the Inland Empire station KCAL listed it, the parade stepped off at 10 a.m. at Limonite Avenue and Beach Street and traveled east to Archer Street near City Hall. The festival followed from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Limonite was closed from Bain Street to Archer Street from 7 a.m. to noon.

Before the day, Mayor Brian Berkson said, “We’re excited to bring a parade closer to City Hall and highlight the incredible school marching bands, youth sports groups, and community partners that make Jurupa Valley the gem of Riverside County.”

The listing promised floats, performers, and entrants from high school marching bands, youth sports teams, dance troupes, car clubs, equestrian groups, and local organizations. At City Hall there were to be carnival games, activity booths, photo opportunities, face painting, an inflatable slide, music, and tables of community resources.

The Brigade and the Real Jalisciense Band

The Press-Enterprise reporter Mark Acosta wrote that afternoon that “a new fall tradition got its start.” The paper’s photographer, Milka Soko, recorded the lineup as it came down Limonite. The Jurupa Valley High School Brigade marched, and so did the Real Jalisciense Band. High school cheerleaders Alexis Dersinger and Aliyah Martinez danced. The Huerta del Valle float passed, and Abigail Cano of the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians took part. Members of Cielo, a Mexican folklore group, walked the route. Hector Valdivia rode, and junior, young and miss rodeo participants appeared in the parade. Aolanis Felix, 9, was in it too.

Salvador and Maria Salas were among the residents who watched. Children greeted Sunny the mascot. At the festival afterward, among the carnival games and face painting, Johnathan Arceneaux took a photograph of his children, Alayna, 4, and Harper, 1.