{"id":424533,"date":"2026-10-11T00:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424533\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T00:44:11","slug":"2026-tree-lighting-celebration-city-of-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/424533\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Tree Lighting Celebration &#8211; City of Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"event-date\">Next date:\u00a0Friday, December 04, 2026 | 05:30 PM &#13;<br \/>\n\tto 09:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>       &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;<br \/>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"main-page-image full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/christmas-tree.jpg\" alt=\"City Christmas tree with the Nutcracker\" title=\"City Christmas tree with the Nutcracker\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer invites Central Florida residents and visitors to kick-off the holiday season in downtown Orlando and help countdown to the lighting of the City of Orlando\u2019s Christmas tree at Lake Eola Park\u2019s Washington Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>The event will include holiday performances at the Lake Eola Amphitheater, food trucks and the return of the Merry Market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy snowfall in Florida, shop local from over 30 vendors and be sure to stop by for a visit with Santa!<\/p>\n<p>For a list of all the downtown holiday happenings, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtownorlando.com\/Fun\/Things-to-Do\/Downtown-for-the-Holidays\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">downtownorlando.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Attendee Parking and Travel Information<\/p>\n<p>Attendees are encouraged to use alternative modes of transportation to travel to the event including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sunrail.com\/schedules\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SunRail<\/a>, ride share, bike share, carpooling and the free downtown\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.golynx.com\/plan-trip\/riding-lynx\/lymmo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LYMMO<\/a>\u00a0circulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlando.gov\/Parking-Transportation\/Parking\/Parking-Garages-and-Lots\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View an interactive map of surface lots and parking garages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next date:\u00a0Friday, December 04, 2026 | 05:30 PM &#13; to 09:30 PM &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Orlando&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-424533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}