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June 19, 2024

June 22: The 2024 Fremont Solstice Parade will follow shorter route + How to join the naked bike ride

Despite packed crowds last year, the 2024 Fremont Solstice Parade will return to a shortened route it used in 2022. But that won’t stop hundreds of people from stripping down, painting their bodies and biking together ahead of the parade as they have for decades (you can learn more about the history of the ride…
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June 14, 2023

The 2023 Fremont Solstice Parade will mark 30 years of naked people crashing the parade on bikes + How to join

The Fremont Solstice Parade is perhaps Seattle’s happiest day of the year, and that’s in no small part thanks to the explosion of brave creativity that is the pre-parade bike ride featuring hundreds of people using their bodies as art canvases. The solstice bike ride is still an unofficial part of the Solstice Parade, but…
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June 13, 2022

How to bike naked in the revamped Fremont Solstice Parade 2022

For the first time since 2019, the Fremont Solstice Parade is back. And of course that means hundreds of people are getting ready to strip down Saturday (June 18), paint their bodies and ride their bikes ahead of the official parade. And this time, the meet-up is happening at Gas Works Park. Crashing the Solstice…
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March 24, 2022

For the first time since 2019, the Fremont Solstice Parade returns June 18

I am so happy to hear that the Fremont Solstice Parade is back. June 18, mark your calendars. The maps even have bicycle icons printed on them! Does this mean the years of the Fremont Arts Council resisting the naked painted bike parade are officially over? I sure hope so. For anyone who has never…
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June 20, 2019

Saturday: Fremont Solstice naked/painted bike ride + How to join

The annual Fremont Solstice Parade is Saturday, and you know what that means: It’s time to get naked, paint your body and crash the parade on your bike. For about a quarter century, people have been biking ahead of the Fremont Solstice Parade in various states of nudity and body art. In the past decade,…
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January 22, 2015

Licata stood up for the Fremont Solstice bike ride exactly when it needed City Hall support

Nick Licata has achieved a lot in his time as a member of Seattle’s City Council, such as his work to improve working conditions for all people employed in the city. But he also played a key role during a critical moment for a creative Seattle phenomenon that would come to be a defining tradition…
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