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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade could bring hundreds of thousands of people to the Downtown Steel City for a city-wide celebration of Irish pride this weekend. The 2026 Pittsburgh Parade Day Dash wil start at 8 a.m. tomorrow before the parade starts. This event will feature a 5K race as well as a 1-mile family fun run/walk throughout parts of the North Shore and Downtown. The 2026 St. Patrick’s Day parade in Pittsburgh will get underway at 10 a.m. tomorrow near the Greyhound bus station that is along Liberty Avenue. The parade will go from there and it will travel along Grant Street and the Boulevard of the Allies and will end beyond Stanwix Street near Commonwealth Place. Pittsburgh’s St. Patrick’s Day parade dates back to 1869 and it features marching bands, military members, community organizations and step dancers. The detours from Pittsburgh Regional Transit in place because of this parade can be found here. This year’s Miss Smiling Irish Eyes queen Molly McKenna and court maidens Kennedy Kuntz ans Sidney Hoover are being crowned at a luncheon at the Rivers Club this afternoon.