A portion of Main Street will be closed Monday (Sept. 29) for a few hours to accommodate the Eastern New Mexico State Fair parade that will come through downtown Roswell.
Main Street between 19th and McGaffey streets will be closed to traffic beginning shortly after 9 a.m.
The parade begins at 10 a.m. It will travel south on Main Street from College Boulevard to Summit Street. As the end of the parade passes each intersection, the respective side-street roadblocks will be removed.
The parade will line up in the Wool Bowl parking lot and use Grand Avenue and East College Boulevard to reach Main Street. As the parade makes its way from the parking lot to Main Street, westbound traffic on East College Boulevard will be stopped immediately to the east of Grand Avenue.
Roswell Transit bus service will be stopped at or before 9 a.m. and will resume shortly after the conclusion of the parade. As bus service resumes after the parade, buses may run behind schedule because of the heavy amount of traffic that will be dispersing in the downtown area.
The Roswell Solid Waste Department’s regular curb trash collection from nearby residences will also be impacted by the parade. People who live near the parade route and get their trash picked up on Mondays are asked to make sure their trash containers are at the curb early that morning as trash trucks will be making their rounds in the area early that morning before the parade starts.