The Trout Parade took place on Friday, May 30th, 2025. Thank you to everyone who came out and made it such an awesome day! We hope to see you next year. 

The Trout Parade is a celebration of Vermont and our brook trout, waterways, and inhabitants.

Every January, students at Sustainability Academy raise Brook Trout as part of Trout Unlimited’s Trout in the Classroom program. In the past, we have celebrated the release of the trout with a procession through our school and school grounds with puppets that honor trout and related creatures. This year, we are inviting the larger community to take part. We hope this will be a start of a tradition that brings Burlington together to honor the waters of this land, our watershed and the creatures that swim, fly, crawl and share this space. Please join us! Trout themed outfits highly encouraged!

May 30, 2025 

• Public assembles at the Flynn at 12:00pm to join the 4th and 5th grade students. 

• Community Parade departs the FLYNN at 12:30 and will process up to Sustainability Academy (SA). 

• Pre-K-3 Students leave SA at 1:00pm and process to Battery Park when the community arrives. 

• Once we arrive at the park, students will perform a short trout life cycle pageant at Battery Park.  

• The public event and celebration ends no later than 2:30pm at Battery Park. 

There is no rain date. If there is inclement weather the community participation will be canceled and we will have a smaller event on a sunny day just at Sustainability Academy for students.