2024-12-01 Featured Holidays on Amelia Island Featured Holidays on Amelia Island Featured December 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024 Holidays on Amelia Island Lights, decorations, a historic downtown, and the warmth of Southern hospitality combine to make the holidays especially enchanting on Amelia Island. From the night before Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve, here’s a sampling of holiday happenings that will banish even the strongest case of the “Bah Humbugs.” Annual Ritz-Carlton Christmas Tree Lighting Omni Turkey Trot […]
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series Okefenokee Swamp Park Annual Light Show December 30, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series Okefenokee Swamp Park Annual Light Show Join us for the annual Holiday Light Celebration at Okefenokee Swamp Park including a holiday train ride, hot cocoa, smores and thousands of twinkling white lights! Santa’s Workshop will be on hand December 19 – 23 for pictures with Santa and crafts for kids (1 per child). Holiday fun for the whole family!
Featured 6:00 pm - 11:59 pm New Year’s Eve Shrimp Drop Featured December 31, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 11:59 pm New Year’s Eve Shrimp Drop Join the City of Fernandina Beach and Light Up Amelia for a unique, family-friendly New Year’s celebration! Ring in the new year at the downtown waterfront in conjunction with the Greenwich Mean Time stroke of midnight (7PM). Enjoy holiday food, drinks and party favors all leading up to the dropping of the LED-lighted shrimp followed by FIREWORKS. Free
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series Okefenokee Swamp Park Annual Light Show December 31, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Event Series Okefenokee Swamp Park Annual Light Show Join us for the annual Holiday Light Celebration at Okefenokee Swamp Park including a holiday train ride, hot cocoa, smores and thousands of twinkling white lights! Santa’s Workshop will be on hand December 19 – 23 for pictures with Santa and crafts for kids (1 per child). Holiday fun for the whole family!
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade & Celebration January 20 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade & Celebration Come celebrate "Unity through Diversity" with the MLK Day Parade & Celebration! The parade begins at The Peck Center (11th Street) and goes to Ash to Front to Centre and culminates at the MLK Center on Elm Street. For more information, please contact Rev. Patricia Thompson at 904-524-1659.