With COVID precautions in place, lighted trucks & lit boats to parade in Fort Bragg this weekend

FORT BRAGG, 12/2/20 — After a 2020 full of disappointing event cancellations, one of the Mendocino Coast’s marquee annual fun days, Fort Bragg’s Lighted Truck Parade, is ready to roll this coming Saturday at 6:30 p.m. Add to that the “Lit Boat Parade” in Noyo Harbor on Sunday, and Fort Bragg’s Christmas season is about to be a bright spot in what is otherwise shaping up to be a dark winter of pandemic surge and mass quarantine.

Organizer Steve Wells said the lighted truck parade, which started decades ago with lighted logging trucks, is likely to have a different flavor this year. Wells has gotten applications from people on bicycles, three wheeled bikes, people walking and dirt bike riders, along with the usual holiday light-draped trucks and floats. Wells says the event will continue to be non-political and non-partisan. Political messages are being refused, with the event meant to provide a Christmas-holiday feel, he said. Wells is in charge of the event with Nor Coast Rodders, the co-sponsor of the event with the city. He is also the Fort Bragg Fire Marshall.