Toms River Halloween Parade: What To Know

TOMS RIVER, NJ — The threat of bad weather appears to be holding off, and with that, the 83rd Toms River Halloween Parade is ready to go.

The parade steps off at 7 p.m. at the corner of Highland Parkway and Main Street, marches down Main Street to Washington Street, then east on Washington Street to Hooper Avenue. Youth groups, high school marching bands, businesses and individual marchers are anticipated to take part in the parade that has been heralded as the second-largest in the world by Guinness World Records.

Here's what you need to know about the parade:

STREET CLOSURES: Main Street, Washington Street and part of Hooper Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning at 5 p.m. Monday, and will remain closed through about 10 p.m., authorities said.

Highland Parkway will be partially closed as it is used for staging marching groups, floats and other motorized groups.

PARKING: There is public parking behind town hall in the parking structure on Horner Street, in the parking lot next to Huddy Park on Water Street, in the parking lot on Irons Street, the parking lot at the corner of Water and Irons streets where the Red Carpet Inn used to stand. There also is parking at the Ocean County Parking Garage, accessible from Hadley Avenue, along with side streets. If you're parking on a side street, be sure to not block driveways.

HOW TO WATCH: The student crew of the Toms River Schools TV, which has been televising the parade for years, will be producing a live stream of the parade for the first time this year.

The live stream will be televised on the school TV channel's YouTube channel, TRSTV.

Matt Knight of WJRZ-FM (100.1) and Jimmy Steal of WRAT-FM (95.9) will provide parade commentary; they will be streaming from the corner of Main and Washington streets.

In addition, Toms River Patch will be livestreaming the parade on our Facebook page. We will be moving around along Main Street.

The Toms River Volunteer Fire Company 1 announced it will be livestreaming the parade as well, on its Facebook page dedicated to the parade.