Spirit Christmas to open first Tennessee stores in Nashville and Knoxville for 2026 season

# What happened

# Where the Tennessee stores will be

• Knoxville: 9630 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37922. This location sits near Urban Air Adventure Park.
• Nashville: 2721 Eighth Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37204. The site is south of downtown Nashville.

These are Spirit Christmas' first stores in Tennessee. The company has listed the two addresses on its official store locator for 2026.

# How the seasonal switch works Spirit Christmas locations are set up to operate as Spirit Halloween through October 31, then relaunch as Spirit Christmas on November 6. That single-week gap is the company's announced transition window for these Tennessee openings.

# What to expect inside a Spirit Christmas store Spirit Christmas combines a traditional seasonal retail assortment with interactive displays and family photo opportunities. Notable elements the company advertises for 2026 include:

• Candy Cane Express: a Christmas train station with a near life-size train and caboose guests can steer and interact with.
• Arrivals and Departures terminal: a kids' area for writing letters to Santa and checking the "nice list."
• Animated versions of familiar holiday characters and licensed properties.

Licensed characters and properties listed for 2026 include Snoopy, Frosty the Snowman, Heat Miser, Snow Miser, Clarice, and several Misfit Toys. The store will also carry merchandise tied to Elf, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Year Without a Santa Claus, and SpongeBob SquarePants.

Merchandise categories will cover indoor and outdoor decorations, inflatables, ornaments, nutcrackers, holiday clothing, gifts, stocking stuffers, party supplies, and an edgier Creepmas collection inspired by Ghost Face, Terrifier and Krampus.

# Expansion context Spirit Christmas launched in 2024 with a small group of Northeast stores, expanded to 30 locations across 13 states in 2025, and further grew to 43 stores across 15 states for 2026. The 2026 locator adds several Southern states for the first time, including Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Tennessee joins those states as part of the concept's broader move beyond its earlier Northeast-and-Great-Lakes focus.

# What this means for shoppers in Tennessee Shoppers in Nashville and Knoxville will have local access to Spirit Christmas' mix of holiday decor, licensed character displays, interactive photo opportunities, and themed merchandise when the stores reopen Nov. 6. For timing or future additions, check Spirit Christmas' official store locator for updates.

# Bottom line Spirit Christmas confirmed two Tennessee openings for the 2026 holiday season at specific Nashville and Knoxville addresses. Both stores will follow the company's standard seasonal schedule: operate as Spirit Halloween through Oct. 31 and reopen as Spirit Christmas on Nov. 6, offering interactive displays and a broad holiday merchandise assortment.