Rockford Thanksgiving Events

November 22nd, 2013 by maureen

Each year, Rockford is an amazing place to celebrate the holiday season and this year is no exception! The season kicks off in full gear this Thanksgiving weekend with two events bound to provide hours of fun for your family. Rockford Thanksgiving Turkey Trot The Rockford Road Runners' oldest race is the Rockford Thanksgiving Turkey Trot which takes place on Thanksgiving Day. The trail race course at Aldeen Park is approximately a 5K distance. Runners guess their time with no timepieces allowed. Finish closest to your predicted time to win Thanksgiving turkeys or pies but you must be present to win. Start time is slated for 9am though those that expect to take longer than an hour may have an early start at 8:30am. To learn more about this event and to sign up online (volunteer signup also online), click here to visit the Rockford Road Runners' website. Stroll on State Stroll on State is a new holiday celebration in downtown Rockford on Saturday, November 30th from 4pm-10pm. It will be a spectacular holiday event perfect to get your family in the holiday spirit! There will be holiday decorations, delicious food and plenty of activities to do including...

Stroll from City Hall to the PNC Bank Plaza at 5:45pm for the tree lighting at 6:15pm
Horse-drawn carriage rides will occur along the stroll route
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" showing across from Capri
The Moonlight Jazz Orchestra will perform at Chase Bank from 6:30-8:30pm
SantaLand featuring Santa and real reindeer at Joe Marino Park
Sony artist Clark Kelly performing live music at Rockford Art Deli
Ice skating in the visitor parking lot in front of the Rockford Register Star building
Carolers and elves at Eddie Green Park

Delicious food will also be a part of this inaugural event with restaurants sampling dishes and holiday drink specials, cakepops by The Sweetery and S'mores stations and hot chocolate along the stroll route. And various food vendors will be downtown as well including...

300 Block of State Street (by the movie screening)
Minis on a Mission - hot mini donuts, coffee, hot chocolate, hot dogs
Deli Italia - pizza slices
East Side of City Market deck (across from the Ice Brigade)
Lulu's - fresh hot churros, roasted potatoes with toppings, homemade hot chocolate
AnJan's Eats - smoked pork sandwich with bourbon glaze, apple-cran slaw, chicken noodle soup, hot apple cider
Fork & Stein - 3 kinds of sliders (bacon cheeseburger, turkey tenderloin with chipotle cranberry BBQ, TurDuckEn turkey chicken slider with duck fat, sauteed onions and cheese), skewered curried swedish meatballs
PNC Bank Plaza (by Christmas tree) then moving to Water Street
Javamania - coffee, hot chocolate, tea, espresso drinks
RRStar Lot (by ice skating)
A Taste of Chicago food truck - hot dogs, polish sausage, nachos, tamales

These holiday events are just two more of the reasons that the Rockford area is an amazing place to live! If you'd like to find out more about living in the Rockford area, click here to contact Dickerson Nieman Realtors.

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Rockford Thanksgiving Events

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