Grapevine Parade of Lights

Name: Grapevine Parade of Lights
Start: 2026-12-03
End: 2026-12-03
Location: Historic Main Street

Grapevine, TX · Holiday

When: December 3, 2026
Where: Historic Main Street · Grapevine · TX
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

Historic Main Street in Grapevine hosts North Texas's largest lighted holiday parade, with more than 100 illuminated floats and marching bands. The Texas Senate designated Grapevine the state's official Christmas Capital in 2009, and the parade anchors the city's month long holiday season. It falls on the first Thursday of December most years; the exact 2026 date was not yet posted by the organiser at verification.

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GrapeFestsame spot
The largest wine festival in the Southwest, run by the city of Grapevine since 1986 and centred on Texas vintners.
Grapevine Parade of Lightssame spot
Historic Main Street in Grapevine hosts North Texas's largest lighted holiday parade, with more than 100 illuminated floats and marching bands.
Puffy, an 1896 steam engine, still runs from Grapevine to the Stockyardssame spot
The city runs excursion trains out of the restored 1888 Cotton Belt depot on Main Street, over 21 miles of old Cotton Belt track into the Fort Worth Stockyards.
Grapevine keeps its Main Street while the airport swallows the farms0.2 mi
Local historians started pushing to save the downtown in the 1970s, as the new airport turned the surrounding cotton and dairy land into runways and warehouses.
Grapevine is named for the wild mustang grapes on the prairie0.5 mi
In August 1843 Sam Houston met chiefs and captains of ten Native nations out on the Grape Vine Prairie, and the treaty of peace and commerce signed there opened the land to homesteaders.