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Snowflake Lane

Bellevue, WA · Holiday

When

November 27 – December 24, 2026

Where

Bellevue Collection, between Bellevue Square and Lincoln Square · Bellevue · WA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A free nightly holiday parade down a half mile stretch of downtown Bellevue, with drummers, dancers, lighted floats, and machine made snow. Now in its third decade, it has become the Eastside's defining holiday tradition.

The history within reach

• Snowflake Lanesame spot

  A free nightly holiday parade down a half mile stretch of downtown Bellevue, with drummers, dancers, lighted floats, and machine made snow.

• Bellevue Square, the first regional shopping centre in the Pacific Northwest0.1 mi

  Kemper Freeman Sr.

• The Puget Power Building, Bellevue's first high rise, torn down for a taller one0.3 mi

  Puget Sound Power and Light put up a four storey headquarters here in 1956, the tallest building in Bellevue and on the whole Eastside at the time.

• Bellevue's downtown waterfront was the winter port of a whaling fleet0.5 mi

  William Schupp brought the American Pacific Whaling Company's boats into Meydenbauer Bay in 1919, using the new ship canal to lay the fleet up in fresh water through the off season.

• Bellevue women went door to door to pay for the Eastside's first hospital0.8 mi

  Until 1960 anyone on the Eastside who needed a hospital had to cross the lake to get to one.