Fiesta Hopper: Parade and three days of celebration

Canyon Lake is eager and ready to bust out of its two-year summer-celebration drought and a three-day Fiesta Hopper celebration is just what is needed to make that happen. The annual Fiesta Day pre-Memorial Day activity has always been one of the biggest events of the year in Canyon Lake.

With COVID-19 restrictions making the last two years a shell of itself over the Memorial Day weekend, this year, the Canyon Lake POA and its various committees and clubs have gone beyond anything ever attempted. The successful Fiesta Day Hopper event from last year is being expanded and combined with the traditional Fiesta Day parade and celebrations for an epic three-day event…that doesn’t even include the massive day that Memorial Day is on its own.

For more than 40 years, thousands have crammed into Canyon Lake on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend to celebrate not just the holiday, but the unofficial birth of summer. This year the celebrating begins next Friday and continues through Saturday and Sunday.

Fiesta Days carries a theme this year. This year’s theme is “Fiesta Hopper Celebrates Lake Life,” a tribute to all of the lake activities available in Canyon Lake, like camping, water sports, swimming, fishing, skiing and so much more.

The highlight of the three days of events will be the parade. The parade will take place on Saturday, May 28 at 9:00 a.m. Debby Gagnon, a fixture in the Canyon Lake community as both a business owner and civic volunteer, has been named the Grand Marshall of the Fiesta Days Parade. Debby is the owner of Pack, Wrap and Post in the Canyon Lake Town Center and has been an active member of several service clubs and organizations in Canyon Lake.

 

The parade will begin at Mayflower Drive and Canyon Lake Drive North at approximately 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 28. The parade will make its way down Canyon Lake Drive North and turn right onto Vacation Drive. From Vacation Drive, the parade will make its way to its new endpoint, Lighthouse Drive.

Parade participants can either park or pull over to unload passengers on Lighthouse Drive or continue down Lighthouse Drive to Canyon Club Drive and on to Canyon Lake Drive North to exit the parade/event. Please note, that Canyon Club Drive and Lighthouse Drive will not be designated as one way this year, so parade participants unloading passengers are being asked to pull-off to the sides and not block traffic.

There will be road closures during the parade. At 8:30 a.m. Canyon Lake Drive North (Evans Park to Vacation Drive Stop sign) and Vacation Drive (from the Stop sign to Lighthouse Drive) will close until the end of the parade. Canyon Club Drive and Lighthouse Drive will be the exit route of the parade participants.

There will be no parking from 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 28 on Canyon Lake Drive North (from Steelhead Drive to Vacation Drive), and Vacation Drive to Lighthouse Drive.

The rough schedule for the three-day Fiesta Hopper is Friday, a movie night at the Lodge Pool, Saturday, games, vendors, food, concerts, shows, rides, petting zoo, etc. at five locations: The Canyon Lake Lodge, Sierra Park, Holiday Harbor, Indian Beach and Eastport Park; and Sunday, the Lodge Pool Mini Paddle Boats, Holiday Harbor concert, food, vendors and jump houses and Movie Night at Indian Beach. The Friday Flyer will have detailed information of all events in the June 27 edition.




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