Thanksgiving Parade by the numbers
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Tomorrow is the 76th McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade. There will be over 100 parade units, 20 marching bands watched by about 400,000 people. Interested in more numbers, like how many people pick up the doo-doo those 142 horses drop along the way? Read on.
- 1934: The year the Parade was founded to lift people's spirits in during the Great Depression
- 5,280 feet: the length of the Parade route
- 425,000: spectators expected to attend 76th McDonald's® Thanksgiving Parade
- 65,500 cubic feet: the amount of helium used to inflate 12 giant parade balloons
- 6 hours: the time it will take to inflate all 12 giant parade balloons
- 408: people needed to handle the balloons throughout the Parade route
- Almost 1,000: people volunteer at the 76th McDonald's® Thanksgiving Parade
- 4,000: participants in the 76th McDonald's® Thanksgiving Parade
- 2,462: high school and college students marching in the Parade
- 8,818 miles: the minimum total distance traveled by the visiting units in the Parade
- Over 1,154 miles: the distance that the Central Florida Marching Brigade will travel to be in the Parade - more than any other unit except Santa Claus who is joining us from the North Pole!
- Over 150 hours: The combined travel time that all visiting units will put in to be part of the 76th McDonald's® Thanksgiving Parade
- 10: different ethnic groups participating in the Parade this year
- 568: horses' legs in 76th McDonald's® Thanksgiving Parade
- 45: members on the "poo crew" who work to pick up after all the horses in the Parade
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