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Boulder Lights of December Parade

Boulder, CO · Holiday

When

December 12, 2026

Where

Downtown Boulder, Pearl Street · Boulder · CO

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Downtown Boulder's Lights of December Parade closes out the Light Up the Holidays season with an evening procession through Pearl Street. It is organized by the Downtown Boulder Partnership and draws crowds from across the Front Range. The parade starts at 6pm.

The history within reach

• Boulder Lights of December Paradesame spot

  Downtown Boulder's Lights of December Parade closes out the Light Up the Holidays season with an evening procession through Pearl Street.

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  County clerk Clela Rorex read the Colorado marriage statute in 1975, found nothing in it that named a husband and a wife, and issued licences to six same-sex couples at this counter.

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• The Boulder Theater, an opera house rebuilt in art deco0.2 mi

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• The Carnegie Library that Boulder built as a Greek temple0.2 mi

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