PHOTO: Argent Dollar City
The holidays are lit at these renowned holiday light displays, drive-thrus, and festivals effectually the U.South.
The holidays are here again and if yous're feeling grinchy, there are literally hundreds of places effectually the country where you lot can see colorful lights and soak in the spirit of the season. Nosotros've rounded upwards the all-time of the best spots to visit this vacation season, and then gather your crew, make some hot cocoa (don't forget the marshmallows!), and get in the car for these holly jolly holiday displays.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Bellingrath Gardens & Abode
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Magic Christmas in Lights
WHERE: Theodore, Alabama
Sixteen colorful holiday scenes created using more than than 3 million lights illuminate the walking path at Bellingrath Gardens and Abode'south Magic Christmas in Lights. You can as well tour the fully decorated historic Bellingrath Home for an boosted fee.
PHOTO: Sherman Hogue / Santa Claus House
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Santa Claus Business firm
WHERE: N Pole, Alaska
Information technology's Christmas every solar day at Santa Claus Business firm in North Pole, Alaska. Y'all can write a letter to Santa and see his reindeer, just you lot won't come across the typical holiday calorie-free displays. If you lot time your visit right, however, yous may encounter nature'south holiday lights, the aurora borealis.
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Zoolights Phoenix
WHERE: Phoenix, Arizona
Most of the Phoenix Zoo animals might exist snoozing during Zoolights Phoenix, only there's still enough to run into, including colorful lights, animal sculptures, and more than. Y'all tin too snap a photograph with Santa, sip hot cocoa, and view musical light shows that have place nightly on the zoo'southward principal lake.
PHOTO: Experience Fayetteville
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Lights of the Ozarks
WHERE: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Lights of the Ozarks transforms Fayetteville's Downtown Square into a glittering wintertime wonderland. At that place's also a vendor fair with food, beverages, and gifts, and Santa makes appearances on select dates.
Photograph: The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
PHOTO: The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
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WildLights
WHERE: Palm Desert, California
WildLights is an annual tradition at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens. Along the zoo'southward walking paths, you lot'll encounter brightly lit, life-size animal lanterns, a tunnel of lights, and an elaborate model train brandish.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Denver Botanic Gardens. © Scott Dressel-Martin
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Blossoms of Low-cal
WHERE: Denver, Colorado
Blossoms of Light is a dazzling holiday lite display at the Denver Botanical Gardens. While you lot stroll through the gardens, you can sip hot chocolate, cider, or a cozy latte to stay warm.
Photograph: M.E. McKeown Photography
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Fantasy of Lights
WHERE: New Oasis, Connecticut
Fantasy of Lights is a mile-long bulldoze-thru vacation light display at Lighthouse Point Park. Ticket sales do good the Goodwill of Southern New England and you lot tin enhance your visit with a pair of 3D glasses.
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Winter WonderFest
WHERE: Milton, Delaware
Winter WonderFest is more than simply a drive-thru lite spectacular. Yous tin participate in an interactive scavenger hunt during your drive and visit Santa's workshop to share your holiday wish list.
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Night of a Million Lights
WHERE: Kissimmee, Florida
Give Kids the Globe Village is a storybook-themed non-profit resort that provides cost-costless holiday to critically sick children and their families. During Night of a Million Lights, the entire resort becomes a winter wonderland of lights, Santa visits, photograph opportunities, and snow.
PHOTO: Tim Peluso/Globe of Illumination
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World of Illumination
WHERE: Marietta, Georgia
World of Illumination is a drive-thru holiday light and music evidence that takes identify at Six Flags White H2o water park. For an boosted fee, yous can have part in a three-D Treasure Hunt and don special spectacles that volition reveal hidden images during your risk.
INSIDER TIP In that location'south besides a second location in Georgia this year, Arctic Gamble in Hampton, Georgia.
Photograph: Phillip B. Espinasse/Shutterstock
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Honolulu City Lights
WHERE: Kaneohe, Hawaii
Honolulu Urban center Lights, now in its 40th year, is held in downtown Honolulu. The entire Honolulu Hale (the metropolis hall) expanse is decorated with lights and in that location are indoor and outdoor tree displays. Behemothic Shaka Santa and Tūtū Mele sculptures are at that place, too, with their bare feet in the water because they definitely don't need snow boots in Hawaii.
Photo: The Coeur d'Alene Resort
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Coeur d'Alene Resort Holiday Calorie-free Show
WHERE: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Coeur d'Alene Resort Holiday Calorie-free Show takes place nightly during the holiday season on Lake Coeur d'Alene. Guests can picket from the shore onboard a "North Pole prowl" that travels by light displays and a floating Christmas tree on the way to Santa's workshop.
Photo: Chernise Taylor/Courtesy of Navy Pier
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Light Up the Lake
WHERE: Chicago, Illinois
Calorie-free Up the Lake is held indoors at Chicago'due south Navy Pier, so you can bask the holidays even when it'due south too cold and snowy to be exterior. Yous'll find twinkling light sculptures, train rides, a beer garden, ice skating, and, of course, the jolly ol' man in cherry.
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Santa Claus State of Lights
WHERE: Santa Claus, Indiana
The small town of Santa Claus, Indiana never stops celebrating Christmas, but information technology gets fifty-fifty more Christmassy during the vacation season. 1 example is Santa Claus Country of Lights, a 1.2-mile drive through the Lake Rudolph Campground that tells the story of Rudolph and his bright ruddy nose using colorful LED light displays.
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Mt. Pleasant Festival of Lights
WHERE: Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
Mt. Pleasant Festival of Lights is Southeast Iowa'southward largest bulldoze-thru holiday light event, with over 100 brightly lit displays. You can ride through in your car or opt for an old-fashioned horse-drawn wagon ride.
PHOTO: Doug Stremel/Kansas Tourism
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Christmas Metropolis of the High Plains
WHERE: WaKeeney, Kansas
Wakeeney, Kansas, has been known as the Christmas Urban center of the High Plains since 1950. A four-square block area surrounding the main downtown intersection is done up with greenery and lights, with a 35-foot fully-decorated tree at the middle.
Photograph: Louisville Mega Cavern
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Lights Under Louisville
WHERE: Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky is well known for its caves, but Lights Under Louisville is the but cave yous tin drive through to run into holiday low-cal displays. You tune into a radio station that plays holiday tunes as you enter the cave and displays are themed to everything from local sports teams to classic holiday movies.
PHOTO: Cheryl Gerber for LouisianaNorthshore.com
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Covington'southward 12 Days of Christmas
WHERE: Covington, Louisiana
Covington's 12 Days of Christmas takes visitors on a journeying around historic downtown Covington, Louisiana, searching for 12 lighted displays that draw scenes from the classic Christmas carol. Download the free map online, striking the roads, and create some Christmas memories.
PHOTO: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens | Tory Paxson
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Gardens Aglow
WHERE: Boothbay, Maine
Gardens Aglow at the Littoral Maine Botanical Gardens uses more than 600,000 lights to create its holiday displays, but that's not all. You lot tin brand an evening of information technology by visiting local homes participating in the holiday light competition (a downloadable map is bachelor on the website) and voting for your favorite.
Photo: Courtesy of Gaylord Hotels
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Christmas at Gaylord National
WHERE: Northward Harbor, Maryland
Christmas at Gaylord National is then much more than vacation decor in every corner of the resort (though they practise have that, also). Visitors can view a nightly laser lite bear witness in the atrium, participate in activities like gingerbread house decorating and snow tubing, and bound into interactive scenes from their favorite holiday movies at the resort's signature event, I Love Christmas Movies.
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Winterlights
WHERE: Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Winterlights takes identify at three different gardens around Massachusetts, but the upshot at Naumkeag in Stockbridge allows visitors to peruse the decorated walking paths and explore the interior of the onsite historic home.
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The Big, Bright Light Show
WHERE: Rochester, Michigan
During The Big, Bright Calorie-free Show, the buildings of downtown Rochester, Michigan, are draped with more than one million vacation lights. Y'all can see the lights while yous're passing by in your car or you lot can hop out and visit the local businesses that are participating.
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Bentleyville Bout of Lights
WHERE: Duluth, Minnesota
The Bentleyville Bout of Lights is a walking vacation lite tour through Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be on manus to greet guests and they even have gifts and cookies for kids under x.
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Downtown Hattiesburg Window Bout
WHERE: Hattiesburg, Mississippi
The Downtown Hattiesburg Window Tour is a self-guided tour of holiday-themed window displays in downtown businesses. Thanks to a "go-loving cup ordinance" put in place to eternalize local business, visitors are permitted to grab a drink from ane of the surface area confined or restaurants and sip while they stroll.
PHOTO: Mike Williams Photography/Silvery Dollar City
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An Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar City
WHERE: Branson, Missouri
From early November through the end of the yr, Christmas takes over Silver Dollar City with food, decor, entertainment, and more than. Highlights of An Old Time Christmas at Silver Dollar Urban center include a Dickens' Christmas Carol Broadway-style show, Rudolph'south Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, and a living nascence scene.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Downtown Bozeman Partnership
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Downtown Bozeman Christmas Stroll
WHERE: Bozeman, Montana
The Downtown Bozeman Christmas Stroll takes place on the first Sat in December as the metropolis's official kickoff to the holiday flavor. Santa will be there, of grade, along with decorations, lights, a gingerbread house contest, and festive window displays.
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Holiday Lights Festival
WHERE: Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha's Holiday Lights Festival takes place across three locations effectually Omaha, the Onetime Market, Southward Omaha, and Due north Omaha. All three areas are fully decorated and select locations collect nonperishable food items and monetary donations to support the local community.
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Glittering Lights Las Vegas
WHERE: Las Vegas, Nevada
Glittering Lights Las Vegas is held at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but you won't want to drive through at superlative speed or yous'll miss the millions of glittering lights along the 2.5-mile runway. You lot can drive your own motorcar or purchase a ticket for the open-air Santa tram feel.
Photo: NHMS and Vinny Orest
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Gift of Lights
WHERE: Loudon, New Hampshire
Held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Gift of Lights features more than than 3 million lights, 520 displays, and 80 festive vacation scenes along 2.v miles of track. Before yous leave, you lot can toast marshmallows and make due south'mores over the pre-lit burn down pits.
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Skylands Stadium Calorie-free Show
WHERE: Augusta, New Jersey
Skylands Stadium is home to the Sussex County Miners baseball game squad and diverse annual festivals. During the holidays, that ways the Skylands Stadium Light Prove featuring a drive-thru holiday light trail, a Christmas village, and holiday treats.
Photo: New Mexico BioPark Lodge
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River of Lights
WHERE: Albuquerque, New United mexican states
River of Lights is held at the ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden and has a large drove of lighted sculptures and displays made past local craftsmen. Santa will also exist present at this walk-thru feel, so brand your list considering he'll be checking information technology twice.
PHOTO: Serge Yatunin/Shutterstock
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Dyker Heights Christmas Lights
WHERE: Brooklyn, New York
Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn that simply and then happens to get very excited for the holiday season. Yous can drive through the neighborhood to view the Dyker Heights Christmas Lights on your own or book a number of different bus or limousine tours that'll practice the driving for you.
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Speedway Christmas
WHERE: Concord, North Carolina
Speedway Christmas takes identify at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it'southward probably the simply time nearly of usa have whatever concern being on a race track. All of the calorie-free displays forth the 3.75-mile course are synchronized to holiday music.
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Bound Lake Park Holiday Lights Drive
WHERE: Williston, North Dakota
From just after Thanksgiving until the end of the yr, Spring Lake Park in Williston, North Dakota, lights upwards the dark sky with its Spring Lake Park Holiday Lights Bulldoze decorative displays. On select nights, guests can see reindeer, watch an ice carving demonstration, take-domicile arts and crafts kits themed to a Christmas Luau, the Grinch, and more than.
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Clifton Factory Legendary Christmas Lights
WHERE: Clifton, Ohio
Clifton Mill Legendary Christmas Lights covers the mill and surrounding trees, riverbanks, and bridges with over iv million lights. At that place's besides a miniature hamlet, Santa Claus Museum, a toy collection, and an opportunity to peek inside Santa'due south workshop.
PHOTO: Courtesy of Chickasaw State
Photograph: Courtesy of Chickasaw Country
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Chickasha Festival of Low-cal
WHERE: Chickasaw, Oklahoma
Chickasha Festival of Low-cal is a drive-thru experience that takes identify in Shannon Springs Park. At that place are more than 100-holiday scenes along this scenic bulldoze, along with a brightly-lit 172-ft Christmas tree and an ice skating rink.
PHOTO: Courtesy of The Grotto
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Christmas Festival of Lights
WHERE: Portland, Oregon
Christmas Festival of Lights is an outdoor walkthrough feel with lights draped effectually trees and bushes and numerous colorful holiday scenes. Visitors can also listen to holiday concerts, shop for gifts, and accept in a boob bear witness.
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Hersheypark Sweet Lights
WHERE: Hershey, Pennsylvania
You lot can't hop on Hersheypark's coasters during Hersheypark Sweet Lights, but yous tin see them as y'all drive forth the 2-mile trail of animated vacation displays. 3-D "holospec" spectacles to make the feel fifty-fifty more magical.
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Rhode Isle Holiday Calorie-free Evidence
WHERE: Hope, Rhode Island
The Vacation Lite Show has multiple locations across the Northeast U.Southward., including Promise, Rhode Isle. Visitors bulldoze through a series of vacation light displays, all from the condolement (and warmth) of their cars.
Photograph: Northward Myrtle Beach Parks and Recreation / Great Christmas Light Show
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The Great Christmas Light Show
WHERE: Little River, South Carolina
Held at the Due north Myrtle Embankment Park & Sports Circuitous, The Bully Christmas Light Testify is a bulldoze-thru experience with animated displays. The result runs most days through the finish of the year, with a special Santa'southward Village open on weekends.
PHOTO: South Dakota Tourism
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Falls Park Wintertime Wonderland
WHERE: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls gets the full Christmas treatment during Falls Park Winter Wonderland. Trees, light poles, buildings, and basically anything that can't become up and run away are covered in lights.
PHOTO: Curtis Hilbun / Dollywood
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Dollywood's Smoky Mountain Christmas
WHERE: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
There'south not much more than beautiful than winter in the snow-covered Smoky Mountains. In fact, the only thing we can think of is Dollywood's Smoky Mount Christmas. In add-on to Dollywood's attractions and shows, the entire park is decorated for Christmas and there is a holiday fireworks spectacular at night.
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Holiday Lights on the River Walk
WHERE: San Antonio, Texas
If you're visiting San Antonio during the holiday season, have a walk to encounter the Holiday Lights on the River Walk. Walking the path is free, but if you lot're feeling festive you can spring for a holiday caroling boat bout.
PHOTO: Christopher Eugene Lee [Public Domain Mark i.0]/Flickr
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Gallivan Heart
WHERE: Salt Lake City, Utah
The Gallivan Eye welcomes holiday visitors to downtown Salt Lake City each year with glittering lights, ice skating, and a towering Christmas tree.
Photo: Woodstock Area Chamber of Commerce
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Christmas at the Farm
WHERE: Woodstock, Vermont
Christmas at the Farm is held annually at Billings Subcontract. In addition to holiday lights and trees, visitors tin roast s'mores, make candles, go along a sleigh ride, and take a snowshoe trek by the river.
Photo: Skipper Films Productions
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Tinsel!
WHERE: Sterling, Virginia
Tinsel! Is a fully immersive vacation feel with activities for all ages. Yes, there'due south plenty of decor, simply at that place's also wine tastings, food trucks (and heated tents in which to have a nice meal), crafts, carolers, and more.
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Oglebay Festival of Lights
WHERE: Wheeling, West Virginia
The Oglebay Festival of Lights has been a Wheeling, WV mainstay since 1985. Today, the effect uses more i meg lights to create xc calorie-free displays. While you're there, don't miss the animated Magical Mansion Show and lxx-foot-tall Christmas tree.
PHOTO: Mark A Lee/Shutterstock
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Hamlet of Lights: Christmastown!
WHERE: Leavenworth, Washington
Every single 24-hour interval from Thanksgiving through Feb, the city of Leavenworth (which is also on this year's Go List) is lit upward with holiday decor. On select days during Village of Lights: Christmastown!, guests can also roast chestnuts, take photos with Santa, and participate in other family-friendly activities.
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Garden of Lights
WHERE: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Garden of Lights embellishes the natural beauty of the Greenish Bay Botanical Garden with more than 325,000 holiday lights. Yous can walk the paths on foot or take a horse-drawn wagon ride for an entirely new feel.
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Cheyenne Street Railway Holiday Trolley
WHERE: Cheyenne, Wyoming
The Cheyenne Street Railway Trolley takes residents and visitors effectually the city'due south landmarks all year round. The Cheyenne Street Railway Vacation Trolley tour showcases areas homes that become all out for the holidays.
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