People attending the Cinco de Mayo festival in St. Paul on Saturday will find the parade route unchanged, despite a rock slide on Wabasha Street last weekend that led authorities to close a quarter-mile of the road.

City officials suggested Friday that people plan extra commute time, and alternate routes for travel and parking.

If attendees come up Wabasha Street for the festival, they will be detoured to Robert Street, said Alyssa Olson, marketing and event manager with the St. Paul Festival and Heritage Foundation, which oversees the Winter Carnival and Cinco de Mayo celebrations.

Wabasha Street remains closed between Plato Boulevard and Cesar Chavez Street because of last Saturday’s rock slide, which did not injure anyone.

Organizers had to move the parade’s staging area to Humboldt Avenue as a result of the road closure. The parade begins at 10 a.m. and is on Cesar Chavez Street from Wabasha to Ada streets. Olson said she does not expect the road closure to impact festival attendees.

“There’s a lot of exciting new activities this year,” Olson said, including a margarita and beer garden at Boca Chica restaurant, fitness classes hosted by the YMCA, a new stage for entertainment, and more eating contests — hot dogs and elotes have been added to the line-up.

After the rock slide, the city hired a consulting firm to assess the Mississippi River bluff to determine how to best remove the slabs and prevent future rock collapses. The earliest the analysis could be complete would be next week and the road will remain closed in the meantime, according to Lisa Hiebert, St. Paul Public Works spokeswoman.

Drones have been used in the area for “a detailed aerial survey,” and the surveying and engineering assessment work continues, Hiebert said Friday.