Christmas in Calhoun County: Your 2025 Hometown Holiday Guide

You don’t have to leave Calhoun County to find Christmas magic this year. From drive-through light shows and town-square parades to local shopping, markets, and cozy restaurants, the holidays are packed with things to do right here at home. Here’s your 2025 guide to a hometown Christmas in Oxford, Anniston, Jacksonville, and beyond. Light Up […]

Oxford Festival of Lights at Choccolocco Park 2025

Your Guide to Calhoun County’s Biggest Holiday Tradition If you love Christmas lights, hot cocoa, and watching kids’ faces light up brighter than a 30-foot tree, the Oxford Festival of Lights at Choccolocco Park needs to be on your holiday list this year. For 2025, the Festival of Lights returns to Choccolocco Park from November […]

Festival of Lights at Choccolocco Park 2024

  As the holiday season approaches, Oxford, Alabama, is set to transform into a winter wonderland with the return of the much-anticipated Festival of Lights at Choccolocco Park. This annual event, running from November 22 to December 24, 2024, promises to captivate visitors with its dazzling displays and festive activities. A Drive-Through Spectacle The Festival […]

A Hidden Holiday Treasure: The Friendship Santa

Santa Village

As you drive by the Oxford Exchange teeming with holiday shoppers, and then further on past Choccolocco Park, illuminated with its Festival of Lights, you’ll eventually come across a more unassuming–yet enchanting–yuletide delight.  If you were to continue to where Leon Smith Pkwy becomes McIntosh Rd, and go a bit further around the bend, you’d […]

Holiday Happenings in Calhoun County

There’s so many great opportunities to get into the holiday spirit this season in Calhoun County, even Santa’s head is spinning!  Parades, Christmas markets, live nativities, and Christmas tree lightings are just some of the festive events you can attend.  Get ready for a holly, jolly Christmas with our holiday event guide.   Christmas Parades Downtown […]