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Rockefeller Center
Jackson Hole-style at the base of the Aerial Tram on Dec. 24. Or children can ski with Santa on Christmas Day near Teewinot and Bridger Gondola.
The Wort Hotel
will once again be celebrating the 12 Days of Christmas
with activities for the entire family while
the Grand Targhee Resort offers sleigh ride dinners, snowshoe tours, movie nights
and more.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
The City That Never Sleeps also knows how to celebrate the holidays. The problem might be trying to do everything during one visit.
Things kick off with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, an annual tradition that will celebrate its 93rd year in 2019. The parade, known for featuring giant balloons, marching bands and Broadway performers, winds through the streets of Manhattan.
Appearing on the televised broadcast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade since 1957 have been The Rockettes. If you don’t happen to catch them in the parade, you can see them in the “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes.” This year’s Christmas Spectacular, which has been performed annually since 1933, will be held from Nov. 8 through Jan. 5, 2020. The 90-minute show is held up to five times a day, even on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
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If you go to the show, or even if you don’t, you cannot miss seeing the huge Christmas tree (and ornaments) on display at Rockefeller Center. There also is an ice skating rink below the tree, if that is something you’d like to do.
From Rockefeller Center, continue southeast and you will end up on Fifth Avenue, home of the legendary Saks Fifth Avenue and its iconic holiday window displays.
But the other retailers along Fifth Avenue also get into the spirit of the season and decorate their windows as well, some with interactive exhibits, inviting passersby to push a button or pull a lever to make things happen.
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
The largest city in western North Carolina, Asheville usually makes it on any list that deals with towns that celebrate Christmas because of the one-two punch of the Biltmore House and the annual tradition of Christmas Dinner at The Omni Grove Park Inn.
Built in the late 1800s for George Washington Vanderbilt II, the Biltmore House is the largest
privately owned house in the United States, with more than 135,000 square feet of living area. During the holidays, the historic museum is decorated with more than 100 Christmas trees adorned with more than 25,000 ornaments and 11⁄2 miles of garland. You also will see thousands of poinsettias and other plants, 500 wreaths and a 35-foot live Fraser fir in the Banquet Hall.
As a bonus for “Downton Abbey” fans, the nationally touring exhibit, Downton Abbey: The Exhibition, will be at the Biltmore from Nov. 8-April 7, 2020. This presentation features set recreations, costumes and never-before-seen multimedia elements.
Over at The Omni Grove Park Inn, the 27th Annual National Gingerbread House Competition will be held Nov. 18, and the winning creations will be on display Nov. 20-Jan. 4, 2020. That means if you are headed to the Grove Park Inn for one of its holiday meals
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