The holidays are officially on at Disney Springs. The Disney Springs tree lighting lit up the big Town Center Christmas tree on Wednesday night, November 11, and the snow started falling right after. That snowfall now returns to Town Center every night of the season, and you do not need a park ticket to see it.
How The Tree Lighting Went
A crowd packed the plaza around the tree, with a small stage set up at its base. Hosts in holiday ears and plaid welcomed everyone, and a vocal group dressed for the season sang in front of the tree. For the big moment, a family joined two Walt Disney World Ambassadors on stage, and the tree came to life in warm gold and white.
Then the snow arrived. It is the soapy kind Disney uses for its holiday snowfall, drifting over the plaza right after the tree came on. In past seasons the Town Center snow has fallen every half hour starting at sundown, so if you missed the lighting, an evening visit still gets you the same moment.
The Christmas Tree Stroll Is Back Too
The Disney Springs Christmas Tree Stroll presented by AdventHealth returned the same day and stays up through January 3, 2027. Three trees are new this year. The Bluey tree outside Level99 is wrapped in thick gold tinsel with red and gold ornaments, characters from the show and a gold star on top. Monsters, Inc. gets its own tree for the film’s 25th anniversary, topped with a yellow scream canister and covered in oversized eyeballs, tiny closet doors and Boo in her purple monster costume.
The third new tree belongs to Hallmark, with a gold crown on top, candy-striped ribbon and Mickey and Minnie on wooden ladders hanging ornaments. It ties into the Hallmark pop-up shop at Disney Springs and the Hallmark Channel movie Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True, which premieres November 28. Returning trees include Frozen, Toy Story, Encanto, Moana, Star Wars and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Free stroll maps are in brochure racks around Disney Springs and at spots like The LEGO Store and The Polite Pig. Match a sticker to each tree, and a finished map earns a prize at a pickup location.
Santa And Holiday Drinks
Santa is back at Santa’s Marketplace, and visits again run through a virtual queue in the My Disney Experience app, as we laid out when the Santa queue and the new stroll trees were announced. Over at The Landing, Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar is pouring its holiday menu through January 11, 2027, including a Hot Chocolate Around the Globe Flight with three spiked takes on Joffrey’s cocoa.
With the tree lit, the snow falling and the stroll open, Disney Springs is the easiest free holiday stop on Walt Disney World property right now, and the full lineup is already in place for the weeks ahead.
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