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 usually celebrate the start of the holiday season.

Last year’s Maple Ridge Christmas Festival and Parade took place on Saturday, December 7th, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Christmas in Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge celebrates the start of the Christmas season with live entertainment and festive activities at Memorial Peace Park on the first Saturday in December. The area gets decorated with lights and other holiday decorations.

The festival typically runs from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm at Memorial Peace Park on a Saturday in early December. The parade starts at 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 couple of hours and offers a little fun before the parade, which progresses for around eight blocks through the heart of the downtown area.

See the Maple Ridge Christmas Festival website for full details about the event.

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!

At the time of publishing this article in early December last year, the exact route for the 2024 parade hadn’t been released yet, but it would have been fairly similar to the 2023 event. That year, 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 and finished near 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.