The MACPA hopes you enjoy the upcoming holiday season – and we’ve found several ways you can do just that. Relax and rejuvenate with family and friends at the various holiday events happening throughout Michigan listed below.

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Dearborn – Greenfield Village Holiday Nights: Experience 200 years of holiday traditions in one evening as you take part in early Christmas celebrations.

Detroit – America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: The parade has delighted crowds since 1924 with fabulous floats, bands and marchers with gigantic paper-maché heads.

Flint – Christmas at Crossroads: Enjoy a display of over 600,000 lights (even the Huckleberry Railroad locomotive is lit up) while costumed villagers decorate homes and shops and Santa visits with children on the streets of this historic village.

Holland – Dutch Winterfest: A flurry of activities will occur as part of the two-week Dutch Winterfest, kicking off with a European Lantern parade and continuing with a number of historical holiday events.

Mt. Pleasant – A Dickens Christmas: From carriage rides to a live nativity, musicians to Santa and his reindeer, and a lighted Christmas Parade, A Dickens Christmas has it all.

Sault Ste. Marie – Christmas Parade of Lights: Starting with parade and followed by a beautiful tree-lighting ceremony, the Christmas Parade of Lights is sure to get you in the holiday spirit!

South Haven – Holidays in the Village: Get in the holiday spirit as you embark on a mistletoe stroll, view the winter light festival, shop in the holiday marketplace, enjoy a parade and concerts, or ice skate in the new downtown rink.

Westland – Wayne County Lightfest: Visit the Midwest's longest drive-through holiday light display with four miles of colorful lights and giant animated displays from Nov. 18 -Jan. 1.

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