Celebrating Christmas Around New York State – Our Top 5 Parades [VIDEOS]

In the Southern Tier city of Corning, Santa arrives courtesy of the Corning Fire Department. He rides on a fire truck during a parade that takes place in the Crystal City's beautiful Gaffer District.

Head east from Corning on Interstate 86 and you'll run into Olean nestled into the Enchanted Mountains of New York's Southern Tier. In the home of St. Bonaventure University, they turn the main drag through town into Santa Claus Lane.

The Schenectady Gazette has been putting on a Christmas parade for 43 years. The parade takes place the week before Thanksgiving.  During the holidays when you 'Say Schenectady,' you're really saying 'Christmas.'

The parade, held the Saturday before Thanksgiving, precedes the opening of the Foothills Festival of Trees in Oneonta.

Santa arrives in the Big Apple in aquatic fashion thanks to the Lighted Boat Parade in New York Harbor. Not nearly as well known as the tree at Rockefeller Center or the Rockettes, this is an insider's-only NYC Christmas celebration.