Calico Rock Christmas is this Weekend!

We have a BIG weekend in Calico Rock and we hope you will join us for all of it:

On Friday night, join our local FCCLA members at their annual Basket Bingo. It’s held at the High School Cafeteria at 6:00 p.m. It’s so much fun, if you’ve never been. Enjoy walking tacos (this is worth the visit), play Bingo and win gift baskets that will put you far ahead on your Christmas shopping list (or keep them for yourself). It really is a lot of fun and raises money for our local FCCLA Chapter! For questions, call Mindy Woods at 870-297-3745.

If you’re looking for a gift for the hunter or fisherman in your life, visit Lemley’s Country Store on Main Street. Looking for a power tool for the hard to buy-for person in your life or the appliance that your needing, come by Knowles True Value. Looking for a custom shirt or cap, visit Pirate Graphic & Design. How about a new cattle feeder for a unique gift, visit Sentinel Industries. The point is…if you’re looking for it…you can find it in Calico! Shop local.

No problem, we’ve got you covered. Visit www.ExploreCalico.com to see a full list of every cabin, restaurant, gift shop, and business that is licensed by the city of Calico Rock. You will be glad you supported our local economy.

Meet Santa Parents bundle up your kiddos and make your way to Main Street to meet the one and only Santa! He’s cleared his schedule just for the boys and girls in Calico. He will greet his biggest fans beginning at 4:00 p.m. on Main Street in front of the historic Calico Rock Hardware Store building, which has a covered porch in case of weather. Santa has to get back to his work checking his list as 5:00 p.m. so come early to get those pictures and tell the Big Man what you’re wanting for Christmas…oh and that you’ve been nice!

A good Hallmark movie has nothing on Calico Rock! Join us for the main event. The windows along Main Street are going to come alive with scenes from Christmas movies. We’ve had a sneak peak at all the hard work that local businesses and groups are putting into their windows and it’s next level. You do not want to miss Living Windows this year. The windows will open at 5:00 p.m. and will close at 6:30 p.m. We hope you’ll cast your ballot for the window that you think was the most original, had the most design, took a lot of effort, and best represented the Christmas movie they are portraying. We’re looking for the best windows and we need your help. Ballots are available in front of the Calico Rock Museum along with pencils and the ballot box. Ballots will be collected until 6:15 p.m. to give us time to finish counting before the parade begins.

Lighted Christmas Parade The Lighted Christmas Parade is going to begin at 6:45 p.m. from Main Street. The fire trucks, ATVs, emergency vehicles and floats will take off from the Sgt. Mike Stephen Memorial Bridge, travel along Main Street, turn onto Highway 56 and go to the King City Park beside the Calico Rock Fire Department. You can view the parade anywhere along this route. If you’re joining the parade this year, emergency vehicles line up behind upper Main Street. Please go up Chessmond Ferry Road to High Street, turn left onto High Street and then come down the streets to Main Street.

Marvel as the windows of our downtown businesses come to life with scenes from Christmas movies at our Living Windows then enjoy the Lighted Christmas Parade. Living Windows runs from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Lighted Christmas Parade begins at 6:45p.m. from the Sgt. Mike Stephen Memorial Bridge and travels along Main Street to Highway 56, concluding at King City Park by the Calico Rock Fire Department. Due to his busy schedule preparing for Christmas Eve Santa will not be available for photographs this year, although we expect him to make a visit in our parade! Vote for your favorite window with balloting between 5:00 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. Ballots, pencils, and the ballot box will be located in front of the Calico Rock Museum. Ballots close at 6:15 p.m. The winning window is judged on originality, complexity of decorations, live action, and quality of window decorations. Ballot scores are combined with judges scores for the final winner. The First Place Window wins $250, Second Place Window wins $100 and Third Place Window wins $75. The business owners hosting the winning windows will win $100 each. . If your group or business would like to participate in either Living Windows or the Lighted Christmas Parade, please call 870-297-6100. Living Windows and the Lighted Christmas Parade welcomes hundreds of our friends and neighbors into town and is a premier event for our downtown businesses. Christmas in Calico is presented by the Calico Rock Museum & Visitor Center, Main Street Calico Rock, and Mitchell’s Park Street Pharmacy.

If you’re an ATV, float, or any other entry that is not an emergency vehicle, you will line up behind lower Main Street. Please turn onto Rowden Street then right onto Walnut Street. We will start lining up first-come, first serve in Peppersauce Alley stretch back across the historic Walnut Street bridge and into East Calico as necessary.

There is plenty of parking around Main Street with lots available in front of the historic Methodist Church across from Between the Buns, a parking lot behind the museum in Peppersauce Alley (please do not park in the street so we can line up floats), the Rodman Street parking lot behind Upper Main Street, and parking by Calico Creek down behind Lemley’s motel office.  If you have any questions during the event, you can call us at 870-297-6100. We can’t wait to see you in Calico Rock!