The 2025 Hopkinsville HES Christmas Parade featured 102 entries and 22 floats that traversed the route from Glass Avenue to downtown Hopkinsville.
The parade was led by sponsor HES with antique bucket truck and a crew of lineman dresssed up in Christmas Vacation style as the Griswold family. Following HES was the 101st color guard and band, law enforcement from Hopkinsville, Oak Grove, and Christian County, the Christian County Rescue Squad, and fire trucks from Hopkinsville, Oak Grove, and volunteer departments throughout the county. And the parade featured a preview of what is to come as the Hopkinsville and Christian County High School bands combined to perform along the parade route.
Retiring Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority Executive Director Derrick Watson served as the Grand Marshall of the parade. Watson told WHVO Hoptown This Morning Co-host Kyle Rader it was a pleasure to be honored this year.
The Hopkinsville Water Environment Authority float took Grand Champion honors.
Redeemed and Restored took second place.
City Salvage and Recycling earned the Spirit Award
General Steel Crane and Rigging earned the Spirit award.
Following the HES Christmas Parade Grand Marshall Derrick Watson led the crowd singing Christmas carols and then lit the Christmas tree with the help of his family.
The weather cooperated with temperatures in the 30s before the cold weather moved into the area Saturday. The parade took around an hour to traverse through downtown Hopkinsville from Glass Avenue to 14th Street.
Photos from the parade by Scott Brown can be found by clicking here.
