Franklin TN Christmas Market 2026

The festival's page says Franklin Transit runs a park-and-ride shuttle to the festival, starting at 10 am on Saturday and 11 am on Sunday, for $1 a person each way. Pick-ups are at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm and at Franklin High School, which is used on Sunday only, and the last shuttle back leaves 15 minutes before the festival closes. All shuttle vehicles are ADA accessible. Folding strollers are fine but non-folding ones are not, and pets other than service animals are not allowed on board.

Downtown parking is limited during the festival and there is no street parking inside the festival area, so the organizers steer people toward the Franklin Transit park-and-ride from Harlinsdale Farm or, on Sunday, Franklin High School ($1 each way). For accessible parking they point to the 2nd Avenue and 4th Avenue garages or the park-and-ride, whose vehicles are all ADA accessible.

The organizers recommend the 2nd and 4th Avenue garages for accessible parking, and every Franklin Transit shuttle to the festival is ADA accessible. Restrooms are inside the Visitor Center on 4th Ave North and the 4th Ave Church of Christ, in a restroom trailer on Public Square, and in portable units on 4th Ave S, 3rd Ave N and at 2nd Ave and Main. A first-aid booth run by Williamson Medical Center EMS is on Public Square.

Main Street runs through the middle of historic downtown Franklin, so the downtown blocks and the older streets just around them are the only places within an easy walk. Most of Franklin's hotels sit out by Interstate 65 and the Cool Springs area, a short drive away, where the park-and-ride lots are the simpler way in.