2026 St. Patrick’s Day Route will Reverse This Year – Get the details and little history lesson
In honor of America’s 250th Birthday, the Allied War Veterans will change the St. Patrick’s Day Parade route, starting at Andrew Square instead of Broadway Station. Technically, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade is actually a celebration of Evacuation Day in the City of Boston. On March 17, 1776, a ragtag group of Minute Men and soldiers drove the British out of Boston, ending a brutal 11-month occupation and marking a key Revolutionary War victory.
An important part of this victory was Henry Knox and his “noble train of artillery.” Knox, a 25-year-old Boston bookseller and American revolutionary, reported to General George Washington in Cambridge that he and his volunteers had just transported 59 cannons and artillery 300 miles, from Fort Ticonderoga in New York to eastern Massachusetts, in the dead of winter.
Knox eventually guided the cannons up to Dorchester Heights (from what would be Andrew Square up Telegraph Street) and aimed them at the British fleet in Boston Harbor during the American Revolution. When British General Howe saw the artillery at Dorchester Heights, the British troops said, “To hell with this,” and evacuated Boston on March 17th.
Check out the route below:
Begin at Andrew Square, straight up Dorchester Street
right around Thomas Park
left on G Street
right on Sixth Street
left on K Street
Right on Fourth Street
left on P Street
left on East Broadway
bear right onto West Broadway
Right on A Street
(Before A Street, 18-wheelers will exit straight down Broadway, exiting the parade.)
On a side note – back in the day, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade would reverse direction every year.
