Deck the Halls Holiday Bazaar in Mount Pleasant

Deck the Halls is the Mount Pleasant–Titus County Chamber of Commerce’s annual holiday bazaar, held at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center on North Jefferson Avenue. The event brings together local artisans, craft vendors, food producers, and small businesses for two days of holiday shopping in a setting that feels like a community gathering rather than a retail event. For anyone spending time in Titus County during the holidays, it’s the kind of event that gives you a direct read on the area’s local makers and the people who support them.

The 2026 event

The 2026 Deck the Halls Holiday Bazaar is expected to take place in mid-November at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center (1800 North Jefferson Avenue). The event typically runs over two days: an evening session on Friday and a full day on Saturday, giving shoppers two opportunities to browse. The exact dates for 2026 have not been confirmed. Check with the Mount Pleasant–Titus County Chamber of Commerce for the schedule when it’s announced.

What the bazaar looks like

The bazaar fills the Civic Center with rows of vendor tables, each one offering something different: handmade jewelry, holiday ornaments, baked goods, candles, leather goods, photography, woodwork, and the kind of crafts that come from people who make things with their hands. The vendors are overwhelmingly local—East Texas artisans and small-business owners who sell at community events throughout the year. Deck the Halls is one of their biggest days.

The atmosphere is what you’d expect from a community holiday market in a small Texas town: casual, friendly, and unhurried. People walk the aisles, stop to talk to the people who made what they’re looking at, and come back with bags full of things they didn’t know they needed. The food is from local vendors, the music is seasonal, and the whole event has the kind of warmth that a shopping mall can’t replicate.

Why it matters

Deck the Halls tells you something about Mount Pleasant that a drive through town won’t. There’s a community of local makers here—people who grow, build, bake, and create, and who bring their work to events like this because the people who live here actually show up to buy it. The Chamber organizes the bazaar as part of its broader mission to support local business, but the event works because the community supports it in return. That kind of cycle—make, sell, support, repeat—is what keeps small-town economies alive.

For anyone evaluating the property as a primary residence or weekend retreat, the bazaar is a good indicator of the social and economic texture of the area. Mount Pleasant has a functioning downtown, a civic center that hosts events year-round, and a Chamber of Commerce that organizes things worth attending. The holiday bazaar is just one piece of that.

Getting there from the property

The Mount Pleasant Civic Center sits on North Jefferson Avenue, a ten-minute drive from the property on County Road 1070. Parking is available at the Civic Center and in the surrounding blocks. The event runs over two days, which means you can split it into an evening visit and a Saturday morning trip without committing a full day.

For anyone already on the property during the holiday season, Deck the Halls is the kind of event that pairs well with a morning walk through the pastures and an afternoon of shopping at the Civic Center. You leave with gifts, you support local makers, and you drive home in the same amount of time it takes to water the horses.