{"id":73648,"date":"2025-11-28T22:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73648\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T22:33:09","slug":"timing-route-and-street-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/73648\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing, route and street closures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving<\/a> is behind us\u2014and the countdown to Christmas<\/a> begins! There are little markers in L.A. that let us know that one of the most exciting times of the year is soon approaching: Christmas lights<\/a> being lit, holiday music on the radio\u2026and the annual Hollywood Christmas Parade<\/a>. Every year, thousands of Angelenos don their most festive apparel (still too tight from Thanksgiving dinner) and head to the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/a> as it\u2019s transformed into a winter sort-of-wonderland. Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the Hollywood Christmas Parade, one of the first major Christmas events<\/a> of the season.<\/p>\n

When is the Hollywood Christmas Parade 2025?<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Christmas Parade always takes place the Sunday after Thanksgiving. That means this year\u2019s 93rd annual parade is taking place on Sunday, November 30, 2025, from 6\u20138pm. Pre-parade entertainment starts at 5:30pm, and grandstand bleacher seating opens at 4pm.<\/p>\n

How can I watch the parade?<\/p>\n

Reserved grandstand seating in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre<\/a> and Hollywood Roosevelt<\/a>\u00a0was going for $120, but all those tickets are actually already sold out. Luckily, curbside viewing along the parade route after Highland Avenue is free if you stake out a spot early enough.<\/p>\n

If you just want to watch on TV, all of the action usually airs closer to Christmas on the CW and KTLA (this year\u2019s air date is still to come).<\/p>\n

Where does the parade start?<\/p>\n

The 3.2-mile U-shaped parade route begins at Hollywood Boulevard and Orange Drive, in front of the Chinese Theatre, and heads east. It then turns south onto Vine Street and west onto Sunset Boulevard, where it continues until reaching Orange Drive again. A route map can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who will be appearing?<\/p>\n

Erik Estrada, Laura McKenzie and Elizabeth Stanton will host. This year\u2019s grand marshal is actor Luke Wilson (a pretty big celebrity get, by the parade\u2019s standards), and Black-ish\u2019s Anthony Anderson will receive the Humanitarian Award. The rest of the lineup includes Brian Austin Green, Sharna Burgess, Vivica A. Fox, Tori Spelling, Ian Ziering and soap stars from Days of our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful.<\/p>\n

The parade also typically features plenty of character balloons, marching bands, dance groups and equestrians, too, plus live entertainment from performers including the Gay Men\u2019s Chorus of Los Angeles. The night will culminate with the arrival of Santa and his reindeer.<\/p>\n

\"Hollywood
\nPhotograph: Alex Millauer \/ Shutterstock.com <\/p>\n

What street and freeway closures will be in effect?<\/p>\n

Saturday, November 29, at 12:01am\u00a0<\/p>\n


\nHollywood Blvd between Orange Dr and Highland Ave (through Mon 6am)
\nOrange Dr from Hollywood Blvd south to the alley north of Hawthorn Ave (through Mon 6am)
\nSycamore Ave from Franklin Ave to Hollywood Blvd (through Sun 10pm; also no parking on Saturday\u00a0or Sunday) <\/p>\n

Sunday, November 30<\/p>\n


\nHollywood Blvd between La Brea Ave\u00a0and Orange Dr (closed 6am\u201310pm)
\nHawthorne, DeLongpre and Fountain Aves from La Brea\u00a0to Highland Aves (1\u20139pm)
\nEl Cerrito Pl from Franklin Ave to Hollywood Blvd (1\u20138pm)
\nSycamore Ave and Orange Dr from Franklin Ave to Santa Monica Blvd (1\u20139pm)
\nSunset Blvd between La Brea\u00a0and Highland Aves (1\u201310pm)
\nFountain Ave between La Brea and Highland Aves (2\u201310pm)
\nHollywood FWY\/101 HWY, both northbound and southbound off-ramps for Cahuenga Blvd, and southbound 101 Vine off-ramp (3\u201310pm)
\nNorthbound La Brea Ave between Hollywood and Sunset Blvds (4\u20139pm)
\nHighland Ave from Franklin Ave to Santa Monica Blvd (4\u201310pm)
\nHollywood Blvd from Highland Ave to Gower St (4\u20139pm)
\nVine\u00a0St from Franklin Ave to Santa Monica Blvd (4\u20139pm)
\nSunset Blvd from Highland Ave to Gower St (4\u201310pm) <\/p>\n

Where Can I Park?<\/p>\n

Parking is always at a premium in Hollywood\u2014especially when street closures are in effect\u2014but you usually can\u2019t go wrong with the Ovation Hollywood<\/a> underground parking complex. If you want to avoid the issue altogether, luckily the area is well-served by public transit. You can take the Metro<\/a>\u00a0Red Line to either the Hollywood\/Vine or Hollywood\/Highland stop\u2014both are along the parade route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving is behind us\u2014and the countdown to Christmas begins! There are little markers in L.A. that let us…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7579,43099,48,52,51,47,50,49,7995,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-73648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-contributor-leila-elihu","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-news-events-festivals","17":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}