Tree Set Up
December 7-8
3PM - 7PM
Help Us Bring the Tree Walk to Life!
Be part of creating a beautiful new Downriver tradition! We’ll need plenty of helping hands to set up trees, string lights, add holiday decorations, and transform the Tree Walk into a place filled with light, love, and remembrance.
Come with a friend, bring the family, or gather a group and join the fun. Years from now, you’ll be able to say you helped bring the very first Downriver Holiday Tree Walk to life!
Tree Decoration
Gibraltar Community Park
December 9-12
3PM - 7PM
Gather your family and friends and make decorating your remembrance tree a special tradition of its own. Bring a pot of chili, order some pizzas, play holiday music, share stories, laugh, remember, and decorate together.
It’s more than decorating a tree—it’s time spent together remembering someone you love and creating a new tradition in their honor.
Opening Night
Gibraltar Community Park
December 12
5PM - 8PM
Remembrance Tree Lighting Ceremony and Mistletoe Workshop-An Evening of Free Holiday Activities and Remembrance Dedications
Free Holiday Activities All Evening
Make and Take Remembrance Ornament
Make and Take Love Notes to Heaven Ornament
Make and Take Remembrance Ornament
Make and Take Memory Light
Warm Hearts Hot Cocoa with the Elves
Memories in Focus: Take Home Holiday Picture
Sweet Memories: Holiday Cookie Decorating
Holiday basket and Wreath Raffle
6:30 p.m. Say their Name: Announcing the names of our Memory Trees (Trees are lit as each name is announced) (Remembrance Holiday Tree Activities closed during this time)
Lighting Display
Gibraltar Community Park
DEC 12 - JAN 1
Dusk - 10PM
Light will be illuminated on all Remembrance Trees nightly.
Special Saturdays
Gibraltar Community Park
DEC 12 - JAN 1
TBD
These events will be announced throughout the holiday season
Decoration Removal
Gibraltar Community Park
January 2-5, 2027
Tree Decoration Pick-Up
As our Tree Walk comes to a close, families and groups will have several designated days to return and remove their special decorations and keepsakes. Please be sure to collect anything you would like to keep. Be sure to leave the lights, but take your sign.
Any decorations remaining after the final pick-up date will be lovingly donated for others to enjoy.
Park Cleanup
Gibraltar Community Park
January 6, 2027
Clean-Up — Help Us Wrap It Up!
Help us put the finishing touches on our very first Tree Walk! Volunteers will help clean up the green space, take down trees and lights, pack decorations and supplies, and get everything organized and ready for 2027.
Many hands make light work—and we’d love your help wrapping up one beautiful year and getting ready for the next!