The Hollywood Christmas Parade Takes One Evening. The Closures Around It Take the Weekend.
The 94th Hollywood Christmas Parade is on Sunday, November 29, 2026. The Toys for Tots event listing runs it from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. That's two hours of floats and marching bands. The block of Hollywood Boulevard between Orange and Highland, though, closes at 12:01 AM Saturday and doesn't reopen until 6:00 AM Monday. That's close to 54 hours for one stretch of street.
The official 2026 road closure notice reads like a schedule that tightens in steps. The process starts on Thanksgiving Day, speeds up on Saturday, and on Sunday it closes in from the west at set hours. If you live between La Brea and Gower, what matters most is which step your block falls on.
"No Parking" signs go up along the closure routes on Thursday, November 26. Enforcement starts Saturday, November 28, and runs through Monday morning, November 30. The signs go up two days before any tickets do, so a car parked on Thanksgiving afternoon can be in a tow zone by Saturday without anyone having moved it.
Sycamore gets its own rules. It closes between Franklin and Hollywood Boulevard at 11:00 PM on Friday, November 27, stays closed through Saturday, and stays closed all day Sunday. Parking there is banned on both Saturday and Sunday. That makes Sycamore the first street to close, ahead of Hollywood Boulevard.
Here's the sequence before Sunday:
In recent years the parade has started on Hollywood Boulevard at Orange Drive. It heads east to Vine, turns south to Sunset, then runs west on Sunset back to Orange, making a U. Beverly Press put last year's start in front of the TCL Chinese Theatre and reported that the grandstand seating sits at that end of the route. The Orange to Highland block that closes for the whole weekend is that same stretch.
Two of the neighborhood's best-known rooms sit on this block. One is Gable, the Hollywood Roosevelt's new lobby restaurant at 7000 Hollywood Blvd, right at the Orange corner. Eater LA reported that Gable replaced Shirley Brasserie. Its menu is by chef Chris Flint, an alum of Maude and Eleven Madison Park, and its cocktails are by Chad Austin, who came from Bar Benjamin and Bootlegger Tiki. The food leans Korean and cooks over live fire, with dishes like a bulgogi-kimchi pizza torched at the table and family-style branzino. Gable's posted hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 5 to 9:30 PM, and Friday and Saturday, 5 to 10 PM. Saturday, November 28, is a normal service night, and it's also the first evening the boulevard out front is closed to cars.
The other is the El Capitan Theatre, on the same stretch of the boulevard. Disney's Hexed plays there from November 24 through December 13, so the run spans parade weekend. A fan event is set for opening day, November 24.
On Sunday the closures start at five different times between 6:00 AM and 4:00 PM. Each one pulls the loop tighter ahead of the 6 PM step-off.
| Time | What closes | Reopens |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00 AM | Hollywood Blvd, La Brea to Orange | 10:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | Sunset Blvd, La Brea to Highland | About 10:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | Hawthorne, De Longpre and Fountain, La Brea to Highland | 9:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | Sycamore and Orange, Franklin to Santa Monica | 9:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | El Cerrito Place, Franklin to Hollywood Blvd | 8:00 PM |
| 2:00 PM | Fountain Ave, La Brea to Highland | 10:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 101 off-ramps: Cahuenga northbound and southbound, Vine southbound | 10:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | Northbound La Brea, Hollywood to Sunset | About 9:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | Highland Ave, Franklin to Santa Monica | About 10:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd, Highland to Gower | 9:00 PM and about 10:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | Vine St, Franklin to Santa Monica | 9:00 PM |
The earlier closures cover the western blocks near the starting point, and the 4:00 PM group closes the eastern loop to Gower. Starting at 1:00 PM, the side streets between La Brea and Highland are closed too, so the grid west of Highland has no through routes for most of the afternoon. The freeway ramps close at 3:00 PM, a full hour before Vine and Highland. Anyone driving home on the 101 that afternoon will have lost the Cahuenga exits and the southbound Vine exit by then, even though the streets those exits feed into are still open. The notice lists the same La Brea to Highland stretch of Fountain twice. It appears in the 1:00 PM group with a 9:00 PM reopening and again at 2:00 PM with a 10:00 PM reopening, so the window that covers both entries runs from 1:00 to 10:00 PM.
On Sunday morning the neighborhood still runs close to normal. The Hollywood Farmers' Market, run by Food Access LA, sets up at 1600 Ivar Avenue at the corner of Ivar and Selma, from 8 AM to 1 PM. Ivar isn't on the closure list. The market's closing time also lines up with the 1:00 PM wave on Sunset, Sycamore and Orange, so a morning market run fits into the open part of the day.
Bristol Farms Hollywood Selma is a few blocks away at 6220 Selma Ave. It opened April 18, according to the Hollywood Partnership's Q2 2026 market report. The same report puts ABL Hollywood's April 2026 opening at 1649 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
East of Highland, Vine stays open until 4:00 PM. 10/10 Burger, the first permanent U.S. shop from YouTuber and author Mike Majlak, is at 1253 Vine Street, Unit 5, south of Sunset. Its ordering page lists hours of 11 AM to 11 PM daily. The New York Post reported the planned October 10 opening, with the smashburger and a Cinnamon Toast Crunch milkshake on the menu. On parade Sunday, its block of Vine is in the 4:00 PM closure, which runs from Franklin to Santa Monica until 9:00 PM.
Free curbside viewing is available along most of the route. The official ticket page lists reserved seats at $120 for adults and $60 for children under 16. Every seat is reserved. Nearly every seat on the route, then, costs nothing, and the paid seats are at the starting end.
Most of the bands that have been announced are traveling in. The organizers' 2026 lineup includes the Cherry Creek High School Marching Band, the Bullard High School Marching Band and Color Guard, the Don Bosco Royal Techmen Marching Band, the Dodge City High School Band Program, the Franklin Central Marching Flashes, the Burton Bulldog Marching Band and America's Clogging All*Stars. Actress Kate Linder is on the 2026 celebrity list. Toys for Tots is the parade's main charity, and the parade collects toys and donations for the program.
"During this busy holiday weekend, you and your guests are encouraged to use the Metro as much as possible."
That line closes out the organizers' closure notice. Both B Line stops in the neighborhood, Hollywood/Highland and Hollywood/Vine, sit right on the route. If you live near those stations, a train gets you to the curb without crossing a closed street.
Most streets reopen Sunday night between 8:00 and 10:00 PM. The Orange to Highland block of Hollywood Boulevard and the top of Orange stay closed until 6:00 AM Monday, the same morning parking enforcement ends.
The boulevard is busy again by Tuesday. Elf The Musical runs at the Pantages from December 1 to 13, and The Lion King follows from December 17 through February 13, 2027. Hexed plays at the El Capitan through December 13.
Weekends like this one are part of what living near Orange, Sycamore or Vine actually looks like, and they're part of how we describe a home when it goes on the market. If you'd like to talk through how your home's location and calendar fit into its story, Longfellow + Leach Team is happy to help. Get a Complimentary Valuation & Design Plan.
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