Three Olympic Peninsula Bluegrass Bands present music DEC 29, 2023. Tickets just $20.

The Hoodsport business community is pleased to announce the second annual Holiday Fest to celebrate the season in downtown Hoodsport with activities, food and local shopping and festivities during the afternoon through early evening at businesses throughout town.

FREE crafts, food, live music, workshops, Santa visits and don't miss the tree maze and cocoa wagon rides all weekend to see the lights and pretty shop trees in Shelton's streets!

Charles Dickens classic story of redemption will be “acted” live in a radio performance DEC 2 at the Christmastown Event in the Civic Center.

Shelton is the perfect spot to begin your holiday adventures as Christmastown launches the start of the Festival of the Firs with Holiday Magic presented by Kristmas Town Kiwanis and Shelton Downtown Merchants & sponsored by Peninsula Credit Union.

Warm smells of cinnamon, ginger, cardamon, and all-spice waft from the cozy home, encrusted with candy and icicles made of sugar. A flat gingerbread man stands stiffly outside sporting gumdrop buttons and an icing smile. Gather the family – it's time to get messy and creative. Even if you don't win the cash prizes, you have a great excuse to hang out and eat candy!

Join us for the 1st Shelton Downtown Merchants Cookie Stroll on December 2 from 3:00 – 8:00 PM. Purchase a $25 ticket to receive a commemorative box and ornament, along with sweet treats; 12 cookies made by talented local bakers.

Looking for adventure this Christmas? How bout a new family tradition. Move over Griswalds – along with plenty of local U-Cut farms you can harvest your own tree in the Olympic National Forest for $5 – for less than the cost of a Vente Mocha at Starbucks.

Shelton is the perfect place to kick off Festival of the Firs with Christmastown events beginning December 1. Cue the lights, music, parade, and street celebrations – on the southern Olympic Peninsula, Shelton is where Christmas gets its "roots."

Celebrating a decade long journey, the much loved holiday tradition is back and being presented by The HUB Center for Seniors. The 2023 theme is Whoville.

The Shelton Downtown Merchants’ holiday snapshot photo hunt is returning in 2023. Grab your camera, rally your crew, and join us for a weekend of photo fun.

In 2019 community members collaborated to stand 815 Christmas trees to form a maze in a Shelton parking lot. In the shape of two giant trees, the maze was powered by LED lights donated by PUD 3, wood donated by Sierra Pacific, and Douglas-fir trees sourced from local tree farms that usually do their “thinning” in the spring but fast-tracked it to supply the maze.

Christmas is important to the timber town of Shelton. In 1962, to celebrate the Seattle World Fair, the town hired the Simpson artist, Clarence Beauchamp to build a giant Santa Claus.