December 2024 | Mason County
Festival of the Firs
celebrate the season!
Shelton Cookie Stroll | Dec 14
2nd Annual Cookie Stroll
Shelton, December 14, 12-5 PM
Purchase a commemorative box and ornament, along 12+ cookies made by talented local bakers. Explore 12+ merchant locations, each offering wonderful shopping options. Take this opportunity to discover unique gifts, holiday decorations, and more while enjoying the charm of our local businesses. This event is not only a treat for your taste buds but also a fantastic way to support our vibrant community.
Gingerbread Challenge
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!
Winter Bluegrass Celebration
Three Olympic Peninsula Bluegrass Bands present music DEC 28, 2024. Tickets just $20.
Hoodsport Yule Tides Festival | Dec 14
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.
Shelton’s Christmastown Celebration Friday & Saturday, December 6-7
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!
Kristmas Town Kiwanis & Shelton Downtown Merchants presents Holiday Magic, Dec 6-7.
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.
The best $5 dollars you’ll spend this Christmas.
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.
It’s beginning to look a lot Like Christmas!
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."
Belfair Christmas Parade | DEC 1
Celebrating a decade long journey, the much loved holiday tradition is back and being presented by The HUB Center for Seniors.
A-MAZE-ing Mason County!
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.
32’ Santa welcomes visitors to Christmastown, WA
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.