See photos from the final Days of ’47 Youth Parade
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Future missionaries walk in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, following a float with the theme "Building Faith Through Pioneer Stories". Saturday, July 21, 2018.
The Days of ’47 Youth Parade is history. Saturday marked the final march for the 80-year-old tradition.
Organizers said they are doing away with the procession because it was putting too much pressure on Mormon congregations that may be asked to provide floats for the youth parade and for the main event — the Days of ’47 Parade, which is Tuesday, Pioneer Day — in back-to-back years.
Days of ’47 events mark the July 24, 1847, arrival of Mormon pioneers in the Salt Lake Valley.
View images from this year’s youth parade in the gallery below.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Future missionaries walk from the Riverton Harvest Park Stake, follow thier float with the theme "Building Faith Through Pioneer Stories". Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Lily Stevenson, 7, walks with the Granger South Stake, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Riverton Harvest Park Stake float "Building Faith Through Pioneer Stories" features crickets and a giant seagull, followed by kids with "Future Missionary" shirts, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids in pioneer costumes follow the Sandy Granite South Stake float titled "Family History, Foundation for our Future" in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids from the Bountiful North Stake, dress like pioneers as they follow a float with the theme, "Pioneer Stories, a Foundation of Faith" in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Franklin Reese, 5, carries a giant hammer, as the walks with the Holladay Stake float titled "Forty Years in the Making" about the construction of the Salt Lake Temple, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids in pioneer costumes follow the Sandy Granite South Stake float titled "Family History, Foundation for our Future" in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kaylee Stewart, 4, waves to the crowd as she walks with the Hunter Central Stake, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids wave flags from all over the world as they walk with the North Salt Lake Stake, with the theme, "Foundation for All Nations", in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Priscilla Kastner waves to the crows, as she rides on Bill Kastner's shoulders, as they walk with the Midvale Union Park Stake, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Addie Nielsen, 6, rides on the shoulders of her mom, Kimberly Nielsen, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Thomas Van Wagenen, 8, cools down by spraying cold water in his face, as he walks in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Leah Sherrod, holds a photo of a ancestor, as she walks in the Days of 47 Youth Parade,Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids wear masks representing pioneer stories of animals seen along the trail, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Thomas Brown, 7, walks in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids with "Future Missionary" shirts, follow a float with crickets and a giant seagull with the theme "Building Faith Through Pioneer Stories" is followed in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Brothers, Samuel, 2, and Bennett Johnson, 5, ride in a wagon with the Holladay South Stake, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade,Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids walk with the Holladay Stake float titled "Forty Years in the Making" about the construction of the Salt Lake Temple, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Ava Walker and Annie Walker wear pioneer bonnets as they ride in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids from the Riverton Harvest Park Stake wear "Future Missionary" shirts, as they follow a float with crickets and a giant seagull with the theme "Building Faith Through Pioneer Stories" is followed in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids Kids in the Cottonwood Stake carry giant crayons for the theme "Primary Colors, Courage for a Brighter Future" in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kids sing "Book of Mormon Stories" as they walk in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) A float titled "Stories of Courage" makes it's way along 500 South, in the Days of 47 Youth Parade, Saturday, July 21, 2018.
