Christmas in the Park opens with annual walking tour Nov. 27

Tylertown’s long-running holiday light show marks its 26th season this year as the town’s 40+ acre park, located on the east bank of Magee’s Creek
Christmas in the Park opens on Thanksgiving Eve with a one-time walking tourWednesday, Nov. 27 from 6-9 p.m. Admission for the walking tour is $5 per adult, children 12 and under $2. Enter at the Southwest Events Center entrance on Hwy. 48 East.
The drive through tours begin at dusk Thanksgiving night, Nov. 28, continuing until 8:30 nightly through New Year’s Eve. Admission is $5 for passenger vehicles, $10 for commercial vans and $20 for buses. Entrance for the drive-through tours is on Old Hwy. 98 East at the Magee’s Creek Bridge.
The well-known holiday season lighted tour, Christmas in the Park, attracts thousands of visitors to this small Southwest Mississippi town of just under 2000 residents during the Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve period.
The lighted park has been featured on area television stations, in newspapers and magazine stories and on internet web sites, including being named as one of the state’s “Must See” Christmas attractions and mentioned in the Top 10 Holiday Displays in Mississippi.
This marks the 26th year of the community-supported event, operated by a volunteer committee as an arm of the Walthall Chamber of Commerce.
Many displays are donated by individual who, in some cases, add to their decorations periodically. Most have a special meaning to the families and individuals who donate them to the park. Candy Land and the Gingerbread house were place in the park by grandparents to honor their grandchildren. Now, almost 30 years later, those grandchildren are bringing their children to the park to see those displays which have been refurbished and updated over the years and the many new displays added.
Old McDonald’s Farm was an early display placed by the McDonald family, operators of the farm and tree plantation near China Grove, and the Cajun Village was donated by a lady who moved from Louisiana to Walthall County, celebrating her heritage, and popular with other transplants who have moved here over the years from the state that adjoins Walthall County’s southern border.