GREENFIELD — After a year off, the Franklin County Festival of Trees is returning this year with a new venue and a glowing partnership.

The annual fundraising event is coming to the Roundhouse at the Franklin County Fairgrounds and will run alongside the traditional “Light Up the Fairgrounds” event, creating what organizers are calling “The First Annual Welcoming Winter Wonderland.” Both events are kicking off this weekend at the fairgrounds, 89 Wisdom Way.

April Healey, who helps organize the Festival of Trees with Kirsten Levitt and Naomi Bledsoe, and with assistance from the Greenfield Kiwanis Club, said the event has found a new home at the fairgrounds and the partnership with Light Up the Fairgrounds will benefit everyone.

“We were delighted when the Franklin County Fairgrounds group reached out to us to collaborate with the Light Up the Fairgrounds event,” Healey said. “The two events have historically run simultaneous to each other and it seemed like a great idea to pair them up.”

The Festival of Trees is a prize raffle featuring 70 trees sponsored by local businesses, nonprofits and individuals. Folks are able to buy raffle tickets to drop into each tree’s bucket and if they are selected, they win the tree and its assortment of prizes.

“It’s beautiful this year,” Healey said, adding that the Roundhouse is a fantastic venue. “Now that we’ve had a few years under our belts and we have quite a few perennial sponsors, they’re upping their game.”

Light Up the Fairgrounds, based on Springfield’s Bright Nights, is a drive-thru holiday lights showcase that will be held for three weekends starting Friday, featuring 27 displays, according to WHAI’s Sharon Cross, who helps organize the event.

“Light Up the Fairgrounds is the same as always,” Cross said. “We have a lot of new faces, new displays, so I’m excited about that.”

Proceeds from Festival of Trees raffle tickets and the minimum $5 donation to enter Light Up the Fairgrounds will support the Franklin County Fairgrounds, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western Mass and community grants awarded by Festival of Trees organizers.

Alongside the events themselves, the Welcoming Winter Wonderland will feature a maple cream fried dough food truck and a hot chocolate truck on Fridays and Saturdays. Caroling groups and dance performances will be held to make the festival an entertaining night out for families.

“It should be a banner year for us,” Healey said, “and we’re all really excited.”

If it proves to be successful — and both Healey and Cross think it will be — the partnership between the Festival of Trees and Light Up the Fairgrounds is expected to continue to grow in the future.

“We’re hoping to combine it every year and see where it goes from here,” Cross said. “It gives the community a little more to do than just drive. … We’re excited to have the festival.”

The Welcoming Winter Wonderland opens on Friday, Nov. 29, at 5 p.m. It will be open each Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening through Saturday, Dec. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m.

For more information about the Festival of Trees, visit facebook.com/FCFoT. For more information about Light Up the Fairgrounds, visit bit.ly/3CWI2KN.

Chris Larabee can be reached at clarabee@recorder.com.