The World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade

Rock legends Grand Funk Railroad will play a free concert in Hot Springs on Friday, March 16, 2018, the night before the First Ever 15th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade turns 15 next March, and Napoleon Dynamite will be there to fire the starter’s pistol marking the beginning of Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas’s, annual celebration of zany fun and frivolity.

First Ever 15th Annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 17, 2018!

Tim Herlihy, the Tullamore D.E.W. United States Ambassador, selected Hot Springs’ March 17 98-foot parade as the event he’ll attend this year.

Hot Springs has been named No. 8 among the Top 10 Spots in the World to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by Irish Central, the world’s most authoritative Irish media hub.