Taste of Cincinnati 2024: See which roads will be closed for the annual food festival

Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer
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Downtown streets will be closed off this weekend for the Taste of Cincinnati.

The annual food festival will feature a record-setting 85 vendors, including 28 restaurants, 33 food trucks, and two caterers, on Memorial Day weekend, May 25-27.

Taste of Cincinnati will be held on four blocks of Fifth Street, between Main Street and just east of Sentinel Street, causing multiple roads to be closed. If you're planning to attend the festival or will be in or around Downtown this weekend, here's what you should know.

Taste of Cincinnati 2024 road closures

Taste of Cincinnati will be held on four blocks of Fifth Street, between Main Street and just east of Sentinel Street, causing multiple roads to be closed off.
Taste of Cincinnati will be held on four blocks of Fifth Street, between Main Street and just east of Sentinel Street, causing multiple roads to be closed off.

The following Downtown streets will close at 6 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, and reopen by 5 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, unless otherwise noted, per the event's website.

  • Fifth Street: Closed between Walnut Street and Columbia Parkway (will reopen by 6 a.m. Tuesday).

  • Columbia Parkway: Closed between Downtown and the Sixth Street ramp.

  • Sycamore Street: Closed between Sixth Street and Fourth Street (access maintained to garages).

  • Broadway Street: Closed between Fourth Street and Sixth Street.

  • Broadway Street: Converted to a temporary two-way traffic pattern between Seventh Street and Sixth Street.

  • Sentinel Street: Closed.

  • Lawrence Street: Closed.

A marked detour will direct drivers to northbound Interstate 71 and I-471. Event organizers urge motorists to be cautious when traveling around Downtown and to use alternate routes if possible.

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