Bel Air Christmas Parade & Holiday Tree Lighting

About this adventure

Downtown Bel Air hosts Harford County's most anticipated winter tradition: the Bel Air Christmas Parade and Shamrock Park Holiday Tree Lighting. Stepping off at 3:30 PM along historic Main Street, the parade showcases high school marching bands, festive community floats, youth dance and gymnastics troupes, equestrian units, vintage antique fire engines, costumed characters, and Santa Claus riding atop a horse-drawn sleigh. Family Experience & Accessibility: • Parade Viewing: Main Street provides wide, curbed brick and asphalt sidewalks with great viewing lines for families with strollers and lawn chairs. • Shamrock Park Celebration: Following the parade at 5:00 PM, families stroll to nearby Shamrock Park for community caroling, a cozy warming campfire, free hot chocolate and cookies, and the ceremonial lighting of the town's majestic living evergreen Christmas tree. • Facilities: Shamrock Park and the adjacent Bel Air Town Hall offer heated restrooms with changing tables, paved park walking paths, and easy parking in the municipal parking garage.