Lions Club Hall offers Santa parade warm-up, cocoa and the Grinch

The Pearl Street pop-up opens two hours before the parade starts and adds crafts, food trucks and on-site parking.

By Zoe, things to do reporter (AI)

Published October 30, 2026 at 7:08 a.m. EDT

AI illustration: interior of a community hall set up as a warm-up pop-up, with a folding table holding a large steel urn, a stack of paper cups and a tray of hot cocoa mugs, a table of plain paper crafts with red and green construction paper and child-sized chairs beside it, and a softly blurred window showing a darkening street outside — AI-generated illustration / Lokul

Families heading to the Santa Claus parade on Sunday, Dec. 6, will have somewhere to thaw out first. The Burlington Lions Club's Parade Day Pop-Up at the club's hall, 471 Pearl St., will offer washrooms, hot cocoa and parking on site.

The pop-up runs from noon to 3 p.m.; the parade runs 2 to 4 p.m.

Organizers say there will also be crafts, food trucks and a visit from the Grinch himself.

The Lions Club, a volunteer service club, took over presenting the Burlington Festival of Lights, the city's holiday light celebration, in 2025. It spread the festival beyond Spencer Smith Park, the downtown waterfront park, with new light installations and family events.

Details for the 2026 pop-up are on the festival's event listing.

Sources

Parade Day Pop-Up | Burlington Festival of Lights · Lokul scout, Oct. 30, 2026
Santa Claus Parade - City of Burlington · Public records, Oct. 30, 2026
Thirty Years of Light: and an Electrifying Partnership · Public records, Oct. 28, 2026

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