Santa Clara Holiday Tree Lighting

A Santa Clara tradition for more than 100 years

The City of Santa Clara lights its holiday tree at Central Park, 909 Kiely Boulevard, on Friday, December 4, from 5:30 to 8 PM. The free evening includes live entertainment, food, kids' activities, and photos with Santa before the lighting. Central Park is just a few minutes from Granada Hotel.

Illustrative photograph of a past Christmas in the Park exhibit in San Jose; not a photograph of the Santa Clara tree-lighting event. Photo: Christmas in the Park exhibit 1 by Oleg Alexandrov, via Wikimedia Commons. Original photograph and this image adaptation licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized; website renditions may be cropped and converted to WebP for display. This license applies only to the photograph.