The Town of Nolensville packs its holiday kickoff into one weekend: Santa storytime and the Town Hall tree lighting on a Friday night, then a parade through the Historic District the next morning. Brentwood's events and the Nashville Zoo's light show are up the road. These are the 2026 dates the town and its neighbors have published, with a closing note on lighting a Nolensville home. Check with each organizer before you go.
Storytime with Santa and Mrs. Claus: Friday, December 4, 6:00 pm
- Date:
- Friday, December 4, 2026
- Time:
- 6:00 pm
- Place:
- Board Room, Town Hall
The weekend starts in the Board Room at Town Hall with Storytime with Santa and Mrs. Claus, Friday, December 4, 2026, at 6:00 pm. Space is limited and seats go first come, first served. The town also allows only one parent per family, so arrive early.
When is the Nolensville tree lighting in 2026?
- Date:
- Friday, December 4, 2026
- Time:
- 7:00 pm
- Place:
- Town Hall
The town lights its tree at Town Hall on Friday, December 4, 2026, starting at 7:00 pm, an hour after storytime. Santa and Mrs. Claus visit, a coffee food truck is on hand, and the Nolensville High School Choir sings. Details are on the town's A Nolensville Holiday page.
A Nolensville Holiday Parade: Saturday, December 5, 11:00 am
- Date:
- Saturday, December 5, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00 am
- Place:
- Rolling Hills Community Church, down Nolensville Road to Nolensville Park Road
The next morning, the Nolensville Holiday Parade begins at 11:00 am on Saturday, December 5, 2026. Floats leave from Rolling Hills Community Church and head down Nolensville Road, passing through the Historic District before finishing on Nolensville Park Road.
The route doubles as a lights preview. Houses along Nolensville Road that are lit by Friday's tree lighting are the same ones the crowd walks past on Saturday morning, and they glow again that evening.
Lights up the road from Nolensville
- Glow Wild, Nashville Zoo: straight up Nolensville Pike, the zoo lights up every evening from November 13, 2026, to January 3, 2027, from 5 to 9 pm. Its festive area has an 85-foot Christmas tree with a synchronized light show. Santa is there nightly from November 27 through December 24. Tickets: Glow Wild page.
- Date:
- November 13, 2026 to January 3, 2027
- Time:
- 5 to 9 pm nightly
- Place:
- Nashville Zoo
- Brentwood tree lighting: the city tree is lit on Monday, December 7, 2026, at 5:30 pm at Brentwood's John P. Holt Library on Concord Road, after a Polar Express reading at 4:45. The Brentwood holiday lights guide has the rest of that evening.
- Date:
- Monday, December 7, 2026
- Time:
- 5:30 pm
- Place:
- John P. Holt Library, Concord Road
- Brentwood Neighborhood Luminaries: Saturday, December 12, 2026, dusk to 9 pm, when whole subdivisions light up at once. The Brentwood neighborhoods guide names subdivisions to drive.
- Date:
- Saturday, December 12, 2026
- Time:
- dusk to 9 pm
- Place:
- Brentwood neighborhoods citywide
- FrankTown Festival of Lights, Franklin: a drive-through open every night of the season, from the November 20 opening through New Year's Eve, 5 to 9 pm. See FrankTown's site.
- Date:
- November 20 to December 31, 2026
- Time:
- 5 to 9 pm nightly
- Place:
- Williamson County Ag Expo Center
The Nashville-area holiday lights calendar lists every one of these alongside the rest of the season's parades and tree lightings.
Historic District houses and subdivision houses
Nolensville mixes two kinds of street. Along Nolensville Road in the Historic District, older houses face the road, and the front roofline is most of what passersby see. In the newer subdivisions, houses share long curving streets, and a lit eave shows from several lots away. A roofline track for Christmas lights works for both: it follows a short, simple front on an older house and every turn of a larger two-story one.
Parade weekend on Nolensville Road
Whether the house faces Nolensville Road or a curving subdivision street, the Nolensville permanent lighting page is worth a read, and you can request a free estimate with the December 4 tree lighting at Town Hall in mind.