Quilt show makes parking changes

Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show announces important changes in traffic flow and parking for the 37th annual show on Saturday, July 14.

The Sisters Elementary School parking lot, located just east of Locust Street and accessed via East Cascade Avenue will be designated for handicap parking only this year. This more than doubles the amount of handicap parking available. The parking lot just to the west of Locust St., between the Sisters Schools Administration building and City Hall, will continue to be designated for handicap parking. A five-passenger cart will shuttle between the center of town and the Sisters Elementary School parking lot.

Highway 20/Cascade Avenue will again be closed to traffic from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, July 14. New this year, westbound traffic (coming from Bend and Redmond) will be routed north on Locust Street, west on Barclay Drive and south onto Larch Street for access to downtown and the show. The block of Main Avenue between Locust and Cedar will be closed to traffic and utilized by traffic control officials as a staging and communications area. 

There will be no parking on Highway 20 east of Sisters, on either side of the road. Not only is there plenty of parking on the streets of Sisters, but it is extremely dangerous to walk into town on Highway 20 with the high volume of traffic. There will also be no parking on Locust Street, north of town. Again, high volumes of traffic make that an unsafe place to park and walk into Sisters.

Parking is available and free to the public on the city streets of Sisters. Do not block driveways or alleys.

Free parking and a free shuttle is available at Sisters High School. Signs will direct drivers to that location. The shuttle, provided by the Sisters Lacrosse Team, runs continuously from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.