Atwater Village Tree Lighting Festival

Los Angeles, CA · Holiday

When: December 6, 2026
Where: Glendale Blvd & Perlita Ave median · Los Angeles · CA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A community-funded neighborhood holiday tradition on the Glendale Boulevard median in Atwater Village, with a holiday market, youth performances, and the lighting of a 75-foot Deodar Cedar at dusk. The Los Angeles Fire Department brings Santa in on a fire truck. The festival has run annually since the early 1990s.

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Atwater Village Tree Lighting Festivalsame spot
A community-funded neighborhood holiday tradition on the Glendale Boulevard median in Atwater Village, with a holiday market, youth performances, and the lighting of a 75-foot Deodar Cedar at dusk.
The Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct, rebuilt in miniature inside Disneyland's other park0.3 mi
Merrill Butler designed this concrete arch viaduct for the county and it opened in February 1929, carrying traffic over the Los Angeles River between Glendale and Silver Lake.
The Glendale Narrows, the stretch of the Los Angeles River concrete would not hold0.4 mi
The flood of 1938 handed the Los Angeles River to the Army Corps of Engineers, which lined most of it in concrete.
Glendale's Southern Pacific depot, now the Larry Zarian Transportation Center0.6 mi
Southern Pacific put up this depot in the 1920s in a mix of Spanish Colonial Revival and California Churrigueresque, and it went on the National Register in 1997.
A Metrolink train hits an SUV left on the tracks in Glendale1.0 mi
At 6.03 on the morning of 26 January 2005 a Metrolink commuter train struck a sport utility vehicle parked across the rails in an industrial stretch of Glendale.