San Francisco’s Golden Dragon parade finale figure is 268 feet long.
The Golden Dragon is described as the grand finale of San Francisco’s Chinese New Year Parade. Made in Foshan, China, the enormous puppet is carried by a team of about 100 men and women from Leung’s White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association.
San Francisco’s celebration blends Chinese New Year traditions with the American parade format. Chinese immigrants held early New Year festivities in the city during the Gold Rush era, and the first recorded local dragon dance took place in 1860. The modern public festival began in 1953.
A common mix-up is the figure of 150 feet, which refers to an earlier dragon imported from Hong Kong for the 1957 parade. The article also describes a Golden Dragon as more than 201 feet long in a general festival-events section, but its specific grand-finale description gives the quiz’s canonical figure: 268 feet.