Roswell's First Christmas Tree of 2026 Lights Up at Bulloch Hall
October 29, 2026
October 29, 2026
The City of Roswell's Annual Lighting of the Christmas Tree is set for Friday, Dec. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Heart of Roswell Park, 925 Canton St. It's free and open to everyone. By that night, Bulloch Hall will have been hosting holiday events for more than two weeks.
Roswell's first big tree of 2026 lights up six days earlier, on Saturday, Nov. 28, at Bulloch Hall. The Christkindlmarket on the same grounds will have been open for more than a week by then. For most of November, the holiday events in town are on Bulloch Avenue.
Friends of Bulloch, Inc. hosts the Bulloch Hall lighting every year, and the event listing runs it from 6 to 9 p.m. Guests gather on the porch of the Bulloch Hall Gift Shoppe and sing carols, then the tree is lit. After that, everyone is invited to walk over to the Christkindlmarket and the gift shop.
Nov. 28 falls on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The market keeps its long weekend hours that day, so the tree lighting happens while the market is already busy. The city's lighting on Canton Street comes the next Friday. For those six days, Bulloch Hall's tree is the big one that's lit, and a third set of trees on Town Square is still being decorated.
That third set belongs to Deck the Square. The city took applications for trees at Town Square, 610 Atlanta St., through Nov. 13. Under the participant terms posted on Eventeny, the trees are ready for decorating by Monday, Nov. 23, decorations have to be finished by noon on Friday, Dec. 4, and teardown can begin Saturday, Jan. 2. So if you walk past the Square over Thanksgiving week, expect a work in progress. The trees should be finished by the time the city lights its own tree.
The Christkindlmarket at Bulloch Hall, 180 Bulloch Ave., runs from Friday, Nov. 20 through Wednesday, Dec. 23, and admission is free. Bulloch Hall's 2026 listing mentions traditional mulled wine, food from around the world, a marketplace of vendors and photos with Santa.
The hours change with the day of the week, which matters if you're planning around work or kids:
The market's own homepage still shows some details from 2024, so use Bulloch Hall's event page for this year's hours.
Weeknights give you about five hours after school or work. Weekends give you nine on Saturdays and eight on Sundays. The Nov. 28 tree lighting falls in the last stretch of a Saturday, when the market is already at its longest hours.
The events in the first half of November are spread across town, but Bulloch Hall shows up again before the month is out.
The City of Roswell's Veterans Day honor walk and ceremony take place at Roswell Area Park, 10495 Woodstock Road. Arrival starts at 8:30 a.m., the honor walk begins at 9:15 a.m., and the ceremony follows at 9:30 a.m., according to the Roswell365 listing.
Roswell Arts Fund's ticketed dinner begins at 6:30 p.m. at BEY Mediterranean Kitchen & Bar, 1035 Alpharetta Street, Suite 1100. The listing describes it as a collaboration among local restaurants, joined by the wine bar Deep Roots.
Two days before the market opens, Bulloch Hall is already decorated. The Christmas High Tea runs from 4 to 6 p.m. and pairs tea with a tour of the house in its holiday decorations. This year's theme marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. Reservations are taken by phone, and the listing doesn't give a price. For anyone who wants to see the house dressed for the season before the market crowds arrive, this is the quietest chance.
Once the market opens on Friday, Nov. 20, the busiest stretch of the calendar starts.
On Sunday, Nov. 22, at 4 p.m., vocalist Karla Harris and the Tritone Chamber Orchestra perform "A Little Peace of the Holidays" at Roswell Cultural Arts Center. Tickets start at $39.75, according to Roswell365. The market is open until 8 p.m. on Sundays, so you can catch the concert and still get to Bulloch Avenue afterward.
On Monday, Nov. 23, the Deck the Square trees are ready for their decorators. After that, the Square fills in a little more each day.
Thanksgiving week ends with Saturday, Nov. 28 and the carols and tree lighting at Bulloch Hall. If your family hosts out-of-town guests over the holiday, the market and tree lighting are both free and on the same grounds that Saturday.
A few spots around town are new since summer, and one more is aiming to open while all of this is going on.
V's Coffee Collab, 34 Webb St., Suite 104. Owner Harrison Bernard opened this downtown Roswell coffee shop in September. He roasts the coffee in-house and sells retail bags alongside work by local artists, as the Roswell Ledger reported. With local art for sale and coffee by the bag, it works for holiday shopping as well as a coffee break.
Georgian Corner, 10930 Crabapple Road. Rough Draft Atlanta reported in August that the main dining room had reopened after a short break, with Nina Armstrong and Gocha Gelashvili running the restaurant.
Corner Sushi & Hibachi, 1425 Market Boulevard, Suite 1370. The restaurant opened in August with sushi and hibachi service, according to the North Atlanta Star.
The Toasted Yolk Café, 1570 Holcomb Bridge Road, Suite 855. Franchise owner DeBlair Tate was aiming for a late-November opening, the North Atlanta Star reported on Sept. 30, but no firm date had been announced. Treat it as a maybe for Thanksgiving week, not a sure thing.
On Thursday, Nov. 5, Madrid Spanish Taverna at 1055 Canton Street, Suite 110, hosts "Four Wines. One Journey." from 4 to 6 p.m. Visit Roswell lists tastings at $35 to $50 and says no reservation is needed.
On Friday, Dec. 4, the Deck the Square decorations are due by noon, and the city lights its tree at Heart of Roswell Park from 6 to 8 p.m. The next morning, Saturday, Dec. 5, Roswell Makers Market runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Roswell Visual Arts Center, with free admission and parking. The Christkindlmarket stays open at Bulloch Hall through Dec. 23.
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