Maple Ridge Christmas Festival

The Maple Ridge Christmas Festival is a one-day event with live entertainment and a winter holiday-themed parade in early December.

The festival and the accompanying Santa Claus Parade celebrate the start of the holiday season.

Christmas in Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge marks the beginning of the Christmas season with live entertainment and festive activities at Memorial Peace Park on the first Saturday in December. In 2026 that’s on December 5th. The area gets decorated with lights and other holiday decorations.

Maple Ridge’s festival runs from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Memorial Peace Park. The parade starts at around 6:00 pm.

At the event there are children’s crafts, photo opportunities with Santa or the Grinch, and a small number of other family-friendly activities. There are also food trucks, light displays and a Christmas-themed market to explore.

The festival itself lasts for just a few hours and offers a bit of fun before the parade, which progresses for around eight blocks through the heart of the downtown area.

Maple Ridge Christmas Parade Audience

Where is the Festival?

The Maple Ridge Christmas festival takes place at Memorial Peace Park which is located between 224th Street and the ACT Arts Theatre (at 11944 Haney Place). The park is just a block south of Dewdney Trunk Road and about five blocks north of the Lougheed Highway.

Maple Ridge Christmas Parade

The Santa Claus parade in Maple Ridge is a fairly short parade, but a really good one. It’s perfect for young families! It’s fun, short and sweet! If you like parades and Christmas-y things, we recommend you check it out!

As of early September, the exact route for the 2026 parade hasn’t been released yet, but it should be fairly similar to last year’s event. That December, the parade began on Dewdney Trunk Road between 222nd Street and 223rd Street. From there it turned right onto 224th Street and went around Memorial Peace Park along Haney Place. Lastly, it headed south along 224th before turning left and finishing on Selkirk Avenue.

In the parade there are usually a handful of floats, a small marching band, people on horseback, a fire truck and Santa. It’s a nice parade – short, but with good-quality entries and fun to watch at night.