Some friends from two hours north of us invited us to join them six hours south of us at their vacation rental place. All four of us spent a wonderful day at Silver Dollar City for the first day of their An Old Time Christmas festival.
We got to see their hour-long Dicken’s Christmas Carol musical, as well as this year’s version of the Fa La La Follies saloon show. And while their 6.5 million Christmas lights are still as spectacular as ever, the new thing this year was the brand new Stars, Lights & Christmas Nights Parade.
The new parade is much longer and nicer than the one we’d seen in past years. In fact, it really comes across as a more Disney theme park style parade in quality. It has some really nice floats, and uses the classic Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer TV special characters and music.
Here is a video of the parade recorded on its very first night:
…and if you really prefer not seeing the left and right sides of the parade video, I have a vertical version just for you.
A few new photos have been added to the Theme Parks gallery, too:
https://www.disneyfans.com/photos/themeparks/SilverDollarCity/SilverDollarCity2026/index.html
They did good. Really good. 😉