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Scottsdazzle

Scottsdale, AZ · Holiday

When

November 28 – December 18, 2026

Where

Old Town Scottsdale · Scottsdale · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The City of Scottsdale's holiday celebration lights Old Town Scottsdale from the weekend after Thanksgiving through mid-December, opening with a tree lighting ceremony and sing-along at the Scottsdale Waterfront. Public art installations, culinary demonstrations, and family activities run across Old Town's districts through the season. It is Scottsdale's flagship holiday event.

The history within reach

• Scottsdazzlesame spot

  The City of Scottsdale's holiday celebration lights Old Town Scottsdale from the weekend after Thanksgiving through mid-December, opening with a tree lighting ceremony and sing-along at the Scottsdale Waterfront.

• Parada del Sol Parade & Trail's End Festival0.2 mi

  Scottsdale's Charros civic organization has staged this Western-heritage parade through Old Town since the 1950s, with roughly 150 decorated floats, riding clubs and marching bands followed by the Trail's End street festival.

• Canal Convergence0.5 mi

  Scottsdale Arts stages this multi-night public art event along the Arizona Canal at the Scottsdale Waterfront, now in its 15th year.

• Scottsdale refuses a concrete flood channel and builds a park instead1.3 mi

  In 1961 the Army Corps of Engineers proposed running a seven-mile concrete ditch, 23 feet deep and 170 feet wide, down the Indian Bend Wash to the Salt River.

• Los Arcos Mall, the hockey arena that never was2.1 mi

  Los Arcos opened in 1969 and spent the 1990s losing its shoppers and both its anchor stores to Scottsdale Fashion Square.