- March 24, 2025
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The golf cart with the gingerbread house-eating dinosaur won first place overall and the People’s Choice Award in the 2024 Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade.
Representing the “Elves Rock” golf cart were members of the Donovan family.
James and Denise Alexander and Sara and Marty O’Connor celebrated with a pink Christmas theme.
Katie Steele and Christine Colvin portrayed two of the Golden Girls with their golf cart, with the other two characters seated in the back row.
Kelly and Terry Ledet added Christmas decorations to their LSU-themed golf cart.
The Olszewski-McManamey family represented “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with their portrayal of Willy Wonka, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, Charlie Bucket and an assortment of Oompa Loompas.
Sydney Reed Davey, left, and her parents, Steven and Suzon Davey, gave their golf cart a sweet citrus theme.
Casey and John Scandura appeared in their sleigh as elves Jovie and Buddy.
A thick blanket of “snow” covered the staging area for the Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade.
A thick blanket of “snow” covered the staging area for the Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade.
Santa, his helpers and his reindeer paused for a photo underneath the falling “snow.”
Larysa and Alex Skryhulets and their four sons were all Grinched out for the golf cart parade.
Decorated golf carts were lined up and ready to participate in the annual parade through downtown Winter Garden.
This group worked hard to create the “worst golf cart ever.”
Decorated golf carts were lined up and ready to participate in the annual parade through downtown Winter Garden.
The themes varied greatly in the 2024 Winter Garden Christmas Golf Cart Parade, which took place Saturday, Dec. 7, along West Bay Street and Plant Street in downtown Winter Garden.
Participants were dressed like the Grinch; gnomes; characters from movies such as “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Deadpool” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”; The Golden Girls; musical elves; and more. Carts were decorated to look like a gingerbread house, a Radio Flyer wagon full of toys, a mug of hot cocoa, the Polar Express and other seasonal themes.
The annual parade has become a crowd favorite along the downtown corridor. The event also collects toys for the Police Athletic League’s Holiday Gifts for Kids program.
