If listening to Door County's Christmas Playlist 96.7 WBDK has not gotten you into the Christmas spirit yet, the City of Sturgeon Bay will try its hardest to get you into it this weekend. Decorated trees and wreaths began dotting the Door County Maritime Museum earlier this week. It is part of the Door County Maritime Museum's annual Merry Time Festival of Trees. It highlights area businesses and organizations while raising funds for the museum and also kicks off the holiday season in Sturgeon Bay. After he is done traveling through the city's streets as a part of the Destination Sturgeon Bay Christmas by the Bay Parade, Santa hops in a U.S. Coast Guard boat and cruises across the water to visit with kids at the museum. While it caters to tourists during the heat of the summer, Deputy Director Sam Perlman says the cold of winter is when it reconnects with the community.

The Merry-Time Festival of Trees continues through December 31st.

In addition to the parade, Destination Door County will welcome shoppers to an indoor winter market at Third Avenue Playhouse from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., reindeer to the Old Bell Tower on 3rd Avenue from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and riders on their trolley loops from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

This is the first of two weekends Destination Sturgeon Bay celebrates Christmas. Next Friday, the Unwrapping Community Car Cruise at 5:30 p.m. will take participants to Community Foundation Square for caroling at 6 p.m., followed by the tree lighting at 7 p.m. The next day, Santa makes his second stop to Sturgeon Bay with a meet and greet at the Door County Historical Museum while the new Holiday Hop Sip and Shop takes place.