The Best Christmas Town in America (4K)

On any ordinary Sunday afternoon, you’ll find Gary selling plants at the local farmer’s market. But when August rolls around, everything changes.

With only five months until Christmas, Gary devotes every waking minute to reading parade float applications, finding a trolley, hiring the huge crane – and getting clearance from the local airport – to decorate Oxnard Square’s enormous central tree, dusting off Santa’s Sleigh - with its full set of reindeer. And the thousand other details that have to get done by the first week of December.

Gary is the man who makes Christmas happen in the gritty working town of Oxnard.

He does it with very little funding - just an army of fiercely loyal volunteers. They know how important this all is – for the people who live in Oxnard, Christmas doesn’t start until the tree is lit and they see Santa’s Sled.

So if you want to make a gingerbread house with your kids, watch a 100+ foot tree light up, take a trolley ride down Christmas Tree lane (with cookies and hot chocolate!), or watch America’s best Christmas parade, come celebrate the holidays in festive and friendly Oxnard town. That guy giving you directions on the best place to find free parking? That’s Gary.

(filmed December 2019)
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