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Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade

Marina del Rey, CA · Holiday

When

December 12, 2026

Where

Burton Chace Park · Marina del Rey · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Dozens of boats strung with lights circle the largest small-craft harbor in the country while judges score them from the park, a December fixture since 1963. Fireworks open it; hot chocolate carries it.

The history within reach

• Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Paradesame spot

  Dozens of boats strung with lights circle the largest small-craft harbor in the country while judges score them from the park, a December fixture since 1963.

• Marina del Rey dredges the largest man made small craft harbor in North America0.3 mi

  Los Angeles County had eyed the Ballona marsh as a harbor site since the nineteenth century and finally funded one in 1953.

• Abbot Kinney digs the canals of Venice of America1.1 mi

  Abbot Kinney cut a network of canals into the coastal marsh and opened his Venice of America resort on 4 July 1905, drawing tens of thousands of visitors on the first day.

• Venice of America1.2 mi

  Abbot Kinney drained a marsh and dug canals with gondoliers imported from Italy, on the theory that Americans would take to a cultural resort.

• The Venice Fishing Pier reopens after eleven years shut1.2 mi

  The concrete pier at the end of Washington Boulevard dates from about 1963.