The start of this year’s Freedom Fest Parade is returning to North Main Street.

The 11 a.m. parade and 10:45 a.m. Mini Piggy Fun Run will both start on Tuesday on Main Street north of Eight Place Northwest near Bremer Bank, while parade units will lineup on Main Street near Hormel Foods Corp’s south corporate offices. The parade, which will span about a mile, will again continue down Main Street to Bandshell Park.

This route returns the start to it’s former location after a few years of starting at City Hall and running a block on Fourth Avenue Northeast before turning south on Main Street.

Freedom Fest parade lineup

The 2017 Independence Day Parade will begin at 11 a.m. on July 4.

•Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1216 and Auxiliary

•American Legion Post 91

•Spam Post 570

•Disabled American Veterans Post 27

•American Legion Riders Post 91

•Boy Scouts of Austin

•Girl Scouts of Austin   

•River Rats Car Club

•Spam Museum

•Grand Marshal

•Relay for Life of Mower County

•Cedars of Austin

•Austin High School Alumni Band

•Little Miss Sparkler and Mr. Firecracker

•Buttons the Clown

•Games People Play

•Torge’s Live Sports Pub and Grill

•Casey’s General Store

•Martial Arts Fitness Center – Austin

•Knights of Columbus

•Eagles Car Show Winner(s)

•Austin High School Cheer

•Austin High School Marching Band

•Greenman HVAC

•Moose Lodge 1180

•Collision Specialists, Inc.

•Austin High School Skills USA

•Y Waste Removal, Inc.

•Gene’s Pedalists and Mower County Dairy Princesses

•Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church

•Mower County Fair

•Power 96 and KQAQ 970 AM

•Austin Lions Go Cart Unit

•Mower County Sheriff’s Office

•APAC-PRC

•Kwik Trip

•Red Bike Program – Mary Nelson

•Jane Taylor Academy of Dance

•Rochester Caledonian Pipe Band

•The Village Cooperative of Austin

•African Asian Refugee Services Agency

•Gappa Automotive

•T ‘N G Plumbing

•Acclaim Dance Studio

•Great Clips

•Mower County Farmers Mutual

•Stix of Fury

•Austin Windshield Plus

•YMCA of Austin Gymnastics

•Kuehn Motor Company

•Summerset Theatre

•Culvers of Austin

•Bellisio Foods

•Mower County Historical Society

•Albert Lea Marching Tigers

•American Foundation of Suicide Prevention

•Austin Utilities

•Mayor – City of Austin 

•St. Olaf Lutheran Church

•Windom 4-H Club

•B&T Coaches LLC

•Home Solutions Midwest

•Shrine Oriental Band

•Rochester Dragon Patrol

•Thompson Sanitation

•Pizza Ranch

•St. Marks Living

•The Alley Katz Polka Band

•Miss Mantorville – Marigold Days

•Service Master by Rice

•Austin Youth Hockey

•Austin Bruins Jr. Hockey

•The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota

•Lyle Area Cancer

•Crabtree Lawn & Snow LLC

•Pizza Hut

•Rochester Merry Medics

•Hoot & Ole’s Tavern

•Midtown Towing

•Farmers Market Place, LLC

•Gold Cross Ambulance

•Pacelli Catholic Schools

•H&R Block

•Drum Addicts – Glenville-Emmons High School Drum-Line

•Mower County Breastfeeding Coalition

•KAUS

•SEMA

•MCB

•Darrick’s Preferred Auto, Inc.

•Hagedorn for Congress

•Austin Community Band

•Austin All-Star Baseball

•Hy-Vee

•Crane Chapel

•John Wayne Austinson for Congress

•Impact Martial Arts and Fitness

•Rose Creek Fire Department

•Mapleview Fire Department

•Brownsdale Fire Department

•Austin Fire Department