2025 Upstate SC & Northeast GA Holiday Parade & Event Schedule

The holiday season officially begins tonight, November 21, 2025, with Christmas lights switching on in Downtown Seneca, and starting Monday, November 24, 94.1 The Lake flips the switch to all-Christmas music all day, every day!

The Oconee Holiday Market will be December 5 from 11am to 7pm at Shaver Rec Complex, and pictures with Old Fashioned Santa will be available from 4pm to 7pm.

The area’s parade lineup is as follows:

  • Seneca Tree Lighting at 5 PM and Parade at 6 PM on Dec 1 – this year’s Grand Marshall is Rev. Ted Edgar.
  • Clemson Parade at 6 PM on Dec 2; Westminster Parade at 6 PM on Dec 5.
  • A huge parade Saturday on Dec 6 with Anderson (5:30 PM, Santa arrives 3 PM), Clayton GA (5:30 PM), Pendleton (6 PM), Salem (11 AM), Walhalla (5 PM), Highlands NC (10 AM), and Six Mile (10 AM).
  • Toccoa GA Parade at 7 PM and Seneca’s Jazzy Christmas 5:30–7:30 PM on Dec 11; Fairplay Parade at 1 PM on Dec 13.
  • Plus, Dec 20 family fun during Movie with Santa at 2 PM at VFW Toccoa and festivities 11 AM–3 PM at Camp Toccoa, GA.
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