Enumclaw's Snow on Cole Has Moved to Friday Nights
October 29, 2026
October 29, 2026
In December 2024, the snow on Cole Street fell on Saturdays. Starting Thanksgiving weekend, the Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce sponsored a weekly snowfall at 5 p.m. each Saturday through December 21, weather permitting, according to the Courier-Herald's December 2024 community calendar.
The 2026 calendar moves the snow to Fridays. Each snowfall is now labeled "Frosty Friday," and two of them share an evening with a City of Enumclaw night market on the same blocks. Downtown's winter now has a regular weekly night, and it starts this weekend with a party thrown by the ski resort at the top of SR 410.
Crystal Mountain's Winter Stoke Block Party returns to downtown Cole Street this Saturday, November 7, from 4 to 8 p.m. The resort calls it its free annual preseason party. Its event page describes it this way:
"Calling you back to the snow mindset! As those fall leaves give way to winter, reignite your snow passion at our FREE annual pre-season block party."
The resort's list covers live music, a beer garden, vendors, giveaways, marshmallow or Twinkie-roasting contests and a gear raffle for its friends at Mission Outdoors. All ages are welcome. The Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce's page for the event adds food trucks and ski and board waxing. Admission is free.
The party isn't new to Cole Street. The City of Enumclaw's calendar shows the same event, same hours and same downtown location on November 9, 2024. This year's timing puts it one week after Trick or Treat on Cole, which the Chamber held October 31 from 4 to 6 p.m., and one week before the Chamber's Wine Walk on November 14, also 4 to 6 p.m. That makes three downtown events on three straight Saturdays before the holiday calendar begins.
Not everything is downtown that first weekend. The Country Chicks Holiday Market runs Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7, at the Enumclaw Expo Center, 45224 284th Avenue SE. Country Chicks LLC organizes it, and admission is $5. If you're making a Saturday of it, you can shop the Expo Center market and still reach Cole Street before the block party winds down at 8.
Here's how December worked two years ago. The City lit its tree on Friday, November 29, at 5:30 p.m. The Chamber's snow started that same evening and then shifted to Saturdays at 5 p.m. through December 21. Enumclaw Parks and Recreation held one Holiday Night Market, on Friday, December 6, from 4 to 8 p.m., at the white tent on the corner of Cole Street and Stevenson Avenue. The Santa Parade came the next evening, December 7, at 6 p.m.
So the snow and the market ran on separate nights. A family that wanted the snow, the market and the parade had to come downtown on a Friday and then again on Saturday.
In 2025 the market moved closer to the Friday rhythm. The City's calendar listed a Small Business Night Market on Friday, November 28, 4 to 8 p.m., with food, crafts and music under the tent and on Cole Street. The City Hall tree lighting was the same evening, with caroling and cocoa at 5:30 and the lighting at 6 p.m.
The Chamber's 2026 calendar names the snow "Frosty Friday (Snow on Cole)" and lists it on every Friday from Thanksgiving weekend to the week before Christmas:
The City is adding its own programming on two of those nights. "Frosty Friday Evenings" on December 11 and December 18 run from 4 to 8 p.m. on Cole Street, from Myrtle to the tent on Cole. The City describes them as a holiday night market with vendors, food, live music, Santa pictures, fire tables and snow.
Those two evenings put everything the 2024 calendar spread across two nights onto one street on one night. Plan around two different start times. The night market opens at 4 p.m., and the Chamber lists the snow at 6:30. Getting there early means browsing vendors in daylight and dusk, then staying for the snow after dark.
The calendar also ends sooner than it did in 2024. Christmas Day falls on a Friday this year, and the Chamber's last listed Frosty Friday is December 18. In 2024 the Saturday snow ran through December 21.
The City hasn't yet posted its own listing for the November 27 tree lighting. Its November 2026 calendar doesn't show the event, and the Chamber's listing gives no time or specific location. Last year the City held it at City Hall with the lighting at 6 p.m., so the City of Enumclaw's community calendar is the place to check in the week before Thanksgiving.
The Enumclaw Santa Parade turns 60 this year. The 60th Annual Santa Parade is Saturday, December 5, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Enumclaw Chamber of Commerce and the City of Enumclaw present it. The Chamber says the route runs the length of Cole Street, from Washington Avenue to Monroe Avenue. Last year's registration page called the December 6, 2025, parade the 59th.
The move to Fridays shapes that weekend in particular. Frosty Friday on December 4 falls the night before the parade, so the first weekend of December now has two consecutive evenings on the same stretch of Cole Street: snow on Friday at 6:30 and the parade on Saturday at 6. In 2024 the order ran the other way, with the market on Friday and the parade on Saturday, and the snow on Saturday too.
For the parade itself, the Courier-Herald's 2024 listing advised getting a spot early because "Cole Street gets crowded quickly!" If you're entering a float or group this year, the 2026 registration page announces a required participant safety briefing and a change to entry pricing. Groups that entered last year will want to read it before registering again.
Holiday Helping Hands doesn't follow the Friday pattern. Plateau Kids Network runs the gift-assistance program for Enumclaw families, and it accepts new, unwrapped toys and other gifts. For 2026, Plateau Kids Network lists family registration from November 6 to December 13. Donation drop-off locations may take part from November 16 to December 13.
Drop-off sites change from year to year. In 2024 they included the Enumclaw Fire Department, Fugate Ford, Grocery Outlet and Works Sports & Outdoors. Plateau Kids Network posted its 2026 collection-site list on its donation page, marked as updated October 18, 2026. Check that list before you head out with a bag of gifts.
Drop-off and registration close on Sunday, December 13. That's two days after the first Frosty Friday Evenings night market and five days before the second. If you're shopping the December 11 vendors with the toy drive in mind, you'll still have that weekend to drop off what you buy.
Dates and times come from the Chamber, the City and the organizers, and the snow has depended on the weather in past years. Check each organizer's page the week of the event.
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