$20 per cart registration to be eligible for prizes

JOIN US AS WE

CELEBRATE OUR FREEDOM!

The 2024 Park West Golf Cart Parade is Scheduled for Thursday July 4th, 2024 - Setup starts at 8:30am - Parade starts at 9:30am Masonborough Park

EVENT Contact: dan@operationvetfit.org

local vendors Can Get involved

This event is a great opportunity to meet the community, share your products and support our combat veterans and the fight to stop veteran suicide. Based on previous years, you can expect more than 300 nearby residents in attendance between 8:30-11:30am. It’s just good business. Vendors can easily reserve there 12’x12’ spot using the link below right now. Details therein.

Supporting our Park West based combat veterans agency, Operation Vet Fit.

Operation Vet-Fit's mission is to assist our nation's combat veterans, active duty members and affected family members through advocacy, mental health services, fitness, and camaraderie based motivational activities and events. Now celebrating over 12 years as the only veterans agency in America without a single veteran suicide.

DETAILS:

Prizes and gifts to be provided by our Park West Master Association in coordination with CAMS, our Park West Property Management Company as well as our supportive community businesses.

* Prizes only available for registered carts that pay the $20 registration fee.*

Get your golf carts all AMERICANED out! This event is in celebration of our nations INDEPENDENCE and FREEDOM while also supporitng the fight to end veteran suicide.

Prizes for paid registered carts will be awarded for the top three golf carts according to the following matrix:

Scoring Categories: - This year we will have a judges stand as you enter the parade line-up at Masonborough Park. All registered carts will be handed a number as you drive-in to line up. They will be scoring all registered carts so please be sure to register yours to be eligible to win.

Originality - The ability to think independently and creatively; the quality of being novel or unusual. Scoring 1-5 points, 5 points being the best.

Creativity - The use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work. Scoring 1-5 points, 5 points being the best.

Patriotism - the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one's country. Scoring 1-5 points, 5 points being the best.

Participants - Will be scored on Originality, Creativity and Patriotism. Scoring 1-5 points, 5 points being the best.

Free ICE CREAM again - Maybe?

So get your Red, White and Blue on and represent that Star Spangled Banner that still waves today "over the land of the free and the home of the brave"

Don’t have a golf cart? Don’t worry. “Patriotize” your bicycle with some red, white and blue and join us. However, please be sure you are not riding your bike around in the start/finish area for safety.

Prize amounts will be based on the support we receive from the Park West Master and registrant donations.

Parade Route:

DETAILED IN BELOW IMAGE.
A 5.11 MILE ROUTE STARTING AND FINISHING AT MASONBOROUGH PARK

TIMELINE:

8:30-9:30am - All Registered golf carts line up inside Masonborough Park before heading out onto parade route. (see blue line in 1st map below) As you pull in, our volunteers will check you in and place a number on your cart windshield. This is how the judges will know your cart. Judging starts as you enter the park and as you return :) NOTE: Only carts that have made the $20 cart donation will be eligible for prizes.
9:30am - Route (see green line on map below) Starting from Masonborough Park, taking a right onto Beckenham Dr. Continuing to take a left onto West Canning Drive. Then taking a right onto Grey Marsh Rd. Right into Hall Point Rd. Left onto Wellstead St. Left onto Ashburton Way. Right onto Grey Marsh Rd. Left into Henrietta Hartford Rd where we will slow to a brief stop before to regroup. (see red line on 2nd map below) Then taking a right back onto Grey Marsh, Taking a right into the villages on Alan Brooke Drive, left onto Beaconsfield, Left on to Hubbell Dr, Left onto Barkla Ave, Right back onto Alan Brooke Dr, then turning right returning into Masonborough Park.
10:30am - Ending at Masonborough Park where carts will fall in line inside the park lot.

• 10:30-11:00 Prizes will be awarded for the Most Patriotic Cart and other categories (pending donation of prize items from local businesses) Prizes will be awarded only to those who have made the $20 cart donation at time of registration.

Start & Finish Assembly Area - Please pull carts all the way around the circle, forming several lines as the carts fill in. We’ve had as many as 87 carts prior.

Green line represents the outgoing route (3.67 miles) Red line represents return route (.85 miles) Yellow Line is the 2024 add on into Villages (.59 miles) Total route distance = 5.11 miles.

What is “Operation Vet Fit?”

This golf cart parade was started in 2019 as a way to bring the community together on our day of Freedom and Independence. Enjoy some event history below.