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Ocala Christmas Parade
Ocala, FL · Holiday
- When
- December 12, 2026
- Where
- SE 25th Ave & Ft King St, running to Tuscawilla Park · Ocala · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A community holiday parade running since 1955, with the 2026 edition themed around America's 250th anniversary. It is a distinct local institution from the separate Light Up Ocala event held three weeks earlier, with bleacher seating sold at two downtown lots.
The history within reach
- Ocala Christmas Paradesame spot
A community holiday parade running since 1955, with the 2026 edition themed around America's 250th anniversary.
- Light Up Ocala1.6 mi
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The orange-grove farmhouse where a failed New York journalist reinvented herself writing about her scrub-country neighbors, won the 1939 Pulitzer for The Yearling, and answered the neighbor who sued her over Cross Creek.