COLBERT COUNTY-Thanksgiving leftovers will still be in refrigerators around the Shoals when the Christmas parade season kicks off in Colbert County.
Sheffield and Tuscumbia have the first Christmas parades of the season, with both beginning at 6 p.m., Tuesday, December 2. For more information on participating in the Sheffield parade call 256-383-0250. The deadline to enter the parade is Monday, December 1. For more information on the Tuscumbia parade, call 256-386-7200. The deadline to enter is Friday, November 28.
Muscle Shoals’ parade begins at 7 p.m., Tuesday, December 9. For more information about the parade, call 256-386-9250. The deadline to enter is Monday, December 1.
Cherokee’s parade begins at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 6. Leighton’s parade is also that day. It begins at 7 p.m. Both parades will accept entries until the time of the events.
Susann Hamlin
Susann Hamlin, executive director of Colbert County Tourism and Convention Bureau, said December is chock-full of Christmas activities throughout the county.
“We literally have a holiday event going on somewhere in the country every day from December 1 right up until Christmas eve night,” Hamlin said.
Other holiday events in Colbert County include: The Christmas Train Parade of Lights at Spring Park in Tuscumbia, 4-8 p.m. daily December 1-24. “The Trees of Christmas” at Tennessee Valley Museum 
of Art in Tuscumbia, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday – Friday and 1-3 p.m. on Sunday December 1-24. Sugarplum Market Place at North Alabama State Fairgrounds in Muscle Shoals, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday, December 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday, December 6 and noon-5 p.m. Sunday, December 7. Plantation Christmas at Belle Mont Mansion in Tuscumbia, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, December 7.
“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” at Ritz Theater, 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 12 and 2 p.m. Sunday, December 14. Dickens Christmas Feast at Tuscumbia Roundhouse, 7 p.m. Friday, December 12. Dickens Dash 5K run and 1-mile Tiny Tim Trot, 8:30 and 9 a.m. Saturday, December, 13. “Dickens Christmas, Y’all” in downtown Tuscumbia, Saturday, Dec. 13 and Christmas at Ivy Green, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec., 13.
For more details on any of the events, contact Colbert Tourism at 256-383-0783 or colberttourism@comcast.net.
