Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game Metro Service

Metro’s Gold Line will offer enhanced service for commuters traveling to the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game on New Year’s Day, January 1, 2016.

To help you ring in the New Year safely, Metro will operate 24-hour, overnight service on Metro Rail, plus Orange and Silver Lines. Free rides will be offered for all bus and rail service from 9 p.m. on December 31, 2015, until 2 a.m. on the morning of January 1, 2016.

All latched gates at Metro Rail Line Stations will be unlatched during this time. At 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day, regular fares will be in effect.

A One-way fare is $1.75 and includes transfers to other Metro lines for up to two hours to complete a one-way trip. A $7 Day Pass covers unlimited travel starting on date of purchase until 3 a.m. the next morning.

Metro has set up an advisory page for commuters traveling to the various New Year’s Day events and post-parade display of floats. Visit this page for full information.

To get to the Rose Parade, commuters from East LA-Atlantic or Downtown LA-Union Station are advised to board the Gold Line towards Pasadena-Sierra Madre Villa, then exit at Del Mar, Memorial Park, Lake, and Allen Stations, all of which are within short walking distance of the parade route.

From Sierra Madre Villa, customers should board any train, then exit at Del Mar, Memorial Park, Lake, and Allen Stations.

Customers are encouraged to load roundtrip fare in advance ($3.50 round trip plus $1 reusable TAP card per person) or buy an unlimited $7 Day Pass before beginning their trip to avoid long return lines to purchase fare.

Enhanced Gold Line service will run at three-car/full platform trains every 9 minutes to all stations. Commuters can use the entire boarding platform when boarding.

Numerous Metro bus lines along the Rose Parade route will be detoured or split into two segments at Colorado Blvd. until streets are reopened. It would be better to use Metro Rail to avoid disruption.

For the 102nd Rose Bowl Game which begins at 1:30 p.m., all customers traveling to the Rose Bowl should exit the Gold Line train at Memorial Park.

From East LA-Atlantic or Downtown LA-Union Station, commuters should board the Gold Line towards Pasadena-Sierra Madre Villa, then exit at Memorial Park.

From Sierra Madre Villa, customers should board any train, then exit at Memorial Park.

After exiting at Memorial Park, walk three blocks west on Holly St. (turn right upon exiting station), past Fair Oaks Avenue, to the free Rose Bowl Shuttle. Shuttle pick-up location is at the west end of Parsons parking lot and will pick up passengers on Pasadena Avenue at Holly St.

Shuttles will run continuously from 10 a.m. until two hours after the end of the game.

To avoid long return lines at TAP Vending Machines, customers should load roundtrip fare in advance or purchase an unlimited $7 Day Pass, good until 3 a.m. the following morning. TAP cards must be tapped on validators or fare gates before boarding each line, including at transfer stations.

On New Year’s Day, Metro staff will be available at key stations to assist customers with their fare.

Two children under age five may travel free with each fare-paying adult on bus or rail.

Map PDFs of the routes and schedules are available for download, along with other important travel information, from the Metro website, www.metro.net.