Fifty-one years ago this parade had a Grand Marshal and a theme. This year marks number 52, and Main Street from Hernando High School through Broad Street — about a mile and a half of downtown Brooksville — closes for it the morning of Dec. 12.
What it is: The Kiwanis Club of Brooksville’s annual Christmas Parade, running since the 1970s. It steps off at 10 a.m. and works its way down the full Main Street route, the way it has for 52 years running.
How great it is: Fifty-two consecutive years is a longer streak than almost anything else on Hernando’s calendar. Last year’s 51st parade had Florida’s 2025 Teacher of the Year as Grand Marshal and ran the theme “Lighting the Way to Learning” — the kind of community-first programming that’s kept this one going for half a century while plenty of other small-town parades have folded.
Family-friendly: Completely — it’s a free, open-air community parade with no age restriction and no content to flag.
Price: Free to watch from the route.
Good to know: Downtown Brooksville, Main Street. Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026, 10 a.m. Expect road closures along the route from mid-morning.
It lands one week after Brooksville's Christmas on Main Lights Its Tree at the Courthouse Dec. 5 — between the two, downtown Brooksville runs almost the entire month of December on holiday programming. More from BestOfHernando: Brooksville's Downtown Street Market and Weeki Wachee's Winter Waterland.
See this event on our calendar listing for the full date/time and venue map.
In the future, how about having an old cars in the parade?