2022 CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL AT THE MORRISTOWN GREEN

Santa’s Arrival scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 27th 5:00 pm [POSTPONED to Friday, Dec. 2]

Schedule of Events

*Timing details to be confirmed.

Friday, December 2

Santa’s Arrival

• Santa’s Arrival on North Park Place
• Lighting of the Morristown Green

Help us welcome Santa to Morristown with help from the Town of Morristown Fire Department, Morristown Police and Morristown Partnership and Town of Morristown officials!

Santa House
to 8 p.m. – Visits and photos with Santa

Outdoors
to 8 p.m. – Hot chocolate and cookies provided by Hyatt Regency Morristown

Saturday, December 3

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – Theatre of Light Activity
4 to 6 p.m. – Theatre of Light Activity

Outdoors
2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

Sunday, December 4

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – Goryeb Children’s Hospital Holiday Card Making
4 to 7 p.m. – To be announced.

Outdoors
2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

Friday, December 9

Santa House
3 to 8 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
6 to 8 p.m. – Holiday performances with the Original Music School

Saturday, December 10

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – To be announced.
4 to 7 p.m. – Macculloch Hall Thomas Nast Ornament Coloring Activity

Outdoors
2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

Sunday, December 11

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – To be announced.
4 to 7 p.m. – To be announced.

Outdoors
2 to 4 p.m. – Ice Sculpting Demonstrations
2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

Friday, December 16

Santa House
3 to 8 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
5 to 7 p.m. – Holiday Arts and Crafts

Saturday, December 17

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – To be announced.
4 to 7 p.m. – To be announced.

Outdoors
3 to 4 p.m. – Merry Tuba Christmas
4 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

Sunday, December 18

Santa House
Noon to 7 p.m. – Santa visits and photos

Activity Tent
1 to 3 p.m. – Mayo Performing Arts Company – singing holiday favorites
4 to 7 p.m. – Macculloch Hall Thomas Nast Ornament Coloring Activity

Outdoors
2 to 4 p.m. – Ice Sculpting Demonstrations
2 to 6 p.m. – Miniature Train Rides

The Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green, presented by the Morristown Partnership, will kick off with Santa’s Arrival on Friday, December 2nd at 5:00 pm [rescheduled from Nov. 27] and promises once again to transform the downtown into a winter wonderland.

A full calendar of family friendly activities has been scheduled for Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of December concluding on Sunday, December 18th. 

Look for a detailed activities and entertainment schedule on our website (www.morristown-nj.org) and/or via our QR code included on the event poster displayed throughout town.

For over 100 years, generations of residents and visitors have come to the heart of downtown Morristown to enjoy the magic of the Christmas season.

It began in 1913 with a small group of festive volunteers lighting a single star atop one tree on the Morristown Green. Since that time, this tradition has spread holiday cheer to countless families with its addition of a Santa House, holiday music and crafts, a vintage-style oversized rocking horse, ice sculpture demonstrations and free rides around the Green on a miniature electric trail.

All activities are free with the exception of a $15 fee for photos with Santa.

Photos with Santa are available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through December 18 at various times.

Santa’s Arrival, as well as the month-long Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green, are made possible thanks to returning sponsors Atlantic Health System/Morristown Medical Center, Hyatt Regency Morristown, 40 North Restaurants, Lakeland Bank and The Education Association of Morris (T.E.A.M.).

New sponsors this year include Valley Bank, Morristown Airport, Picatinny Federal Credit Union and Primrose School of Morristown. We offer our sincere thanks to all our sponsors who support this time-honored Morristown tradition.

“As a regional bank with deep ties in the communities we serve, we feel that it is our responsibility to support local events that bring our neighbors closer together” said Roger Jones, vice president and marketing manager of Valley Bank. “That’s why we’re proud to sponsor the Christmas Festival at the Morristown Green,” Jones concluded.

In Spring 2023 Valley Bank will open their new headquarters in Morristown. Santa’s Arrival will coincide, as in years past, with the ‘Countdown to the Lighting of the Green’ featuring seasonal décor, thousands of dazzling lights on the Green and stunning lamppost wreaths throughout downtown.

Being that this event is entirely privately funded, we are grateful to participants in our Annual Appeal drive and encourage you to look for how you can help at Donate Now.

The beauty of our downtown, we hope, will once again entice people from near and far to shop, dine, visit and enjoy a wide variety of entertainment.

For additional information please contact Morristown Partnership, 14 Maple Avenue, Suite 201, Morristown, NJ 07960 at (973) 455-1133, or visit us at www.morristown-nj.org.