Yorba Linda’s 34-year community tradition along historic Main Street — Holiday on Main Street brings a Choo Choo train, petting zoo, photos with Santa, balloon artist, live music, drinks lounge, artisan shopping, and a youth talent show to Old Town for an evening of small-town holiday cheer.
Holiday on Main Street is Yorba Linda’s longest-running community holiday tradition — now in its 34th year — set along historic Main Street in Old Town Yorba Linda, the city’s original two-lane commercial downtown between Imperial Highway and Lemon Drive.
The Main Street Merchants Association hosts the event; the city’s families fill it. The walkable strip becomes a holiday street festival featuring a Choo Choo train for kids, a petting zoo, a balloon artist, face painting, live music, an adult holiday drinks lounge, photos with Santa, artisan shopping, a youth talent show, and the seasonal food and beverage offerings from the Main Street businesses.
For families across Yorba Linda — the East Lake Village blocks, the equestrian neighborhoods, and the Town Center area — and the surrounding north OC communities, this is the season’s official community gathering. Distinct from the Stars, Stripes & Christmas Lights evening at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library (an institutional venue with ceremonial tree lighting and museum programming) and the East Lake Village Christmas Lights (the private-community neighborhood light tradition), Holiday on Main Street holds the city’s commercial-downtown holiday character.
Historic Main Street in Old Town Yorba Linda, between Imperial Highway and Lemon Drive — the city’s original two-lane downtown commercial corridor.
Free to attend. Carnival-style activities, food, drinks, and vendor purchases are paid separately at each booth.
Early December each year (typically the first Saturday), late afternoon into the evening.
Free street parking along Main Street and the nearby residential streets fills early. The Lakeview Avenue public parking lots are within a few blocks’ walk for overflow.
Yes — a Choo Choo train, petting zoo, balloon artist, face painting, photos with Santa, and a youth talent show keep all ages engaged.
Historic Main Street in Old Town Yorba Linda is the city’s original two-lane downtown commercial corridor — a walkable strip between Imperial Highway and Lemon Drive lined with locally-owned restaurants, boutiques, and the kind of small-town storefronts that anchor the city’s heritage identity. Yorba Linda traces back to 1906 and is best known as the boyhood home of Richard Nixon; the Main Street corridor preserves the pre-suburban-boom commercial character of the original village center.
The City of Yorba Linda’s official annual decorating contest and Holiday Lights Map — in its fourth year — invites residents to enter their decorated homes, then publishes a public interactive map highlighting the season’s decorated entries citywide. Free, self-paced, walkable or drivable, and the city’s official kickoff to its residential holiday character.
Brian J. Cook
A new annual community tradition at Yorba Linda’s Town Center fountain plaza — the city hosts an evening tree-lighting ceremony at the open-air shopping center’s central plaza, with balloon-twisting for kids, ornament-crafting stations, festive entertainment, and the tree-lighting moment in the evening. Free, family, and the season’s official Town Center kickoff.
Brian J. Cook
An entire Yorba Linda neighborhood lights up around East Lake Village — synchronized homes, illuminated lakeside paths, and family holiday spirit, free to walk through December. Confirm this season’s display dates on the community Facebook page.
Brian J. Cook
Yorba Linda’s distinctive holiday event — patriotic Americana decor, a ceremonial tree lighting on the Nixon Library grounds, photos with Santa, his reindeer, and a candlelit stroll through the museum’s gardens.
Brian J. Cook
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