10,000 lights will adorn the tree, as well as colorful ornaments, before it’s lit up at a Nov. 28 celebration.
SAN ANTONIO — The thermometer might suggest we were still in September, but the arrival of a 50-foot tree in downtown San Antonio proved Tuesday morning that we’re in the heart of the holiday season.
The tree, a 50-foot grand fir that traveled from, the Cascades in Oregon, was carefully cleaned up, lowered and finally unwrapped at Travis Park. It arrived courtesy of H-E-B, which on Nov. 28 will celebrate 41 years of tree lightings to kick-start the Christmas season in San Antonio.
Before then, the fir will be adorned with more than 10,000 lights as well as “colorful, decorated ornaments,” said Lacey Kotzur, with H-E-B public affairs.
“We can’t wait for everybody to come out and see it,” she said.
PHOTOS: 50-foot Christmas tree arrives to downtown San Antonio
H-E-B says it pays more than $250,000 every year to transport, decorate and light the tree at Travis Park.
Travis Park has become the go-to site for San Antonio’s annual Christmas tree lighting celebration.
The fun gets underway around 4 p.m. on Nov. 28, Kotzur said, with the lights expected to be flipped on at 6:20 p.m.—around the start time for the Ford Holiday River Parade. It will be a famliy-friendly events, with arts and crafts, entertainment, and giveaways… as well as a chance for young San Antonians to write their letters to Santa.