🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Glow Wild: An Animal Lantern Celebration
A mile-long, after-dark walk through the Birmingham Zoo lit by more than a million lights and hundreds of handcrafted animal and sea-life lanterns, plus a Holiday Village, seasonal treats and a holiday train ride. The zoo's marquee winter e
Lights of Noel
Billed as Alabama's largest drive-thru animated light show - nearly two miles of modern LED displays and 300-foot light tunnels wound through the Birmingham Race Course, driven from your own car.
Magic of Lights
A drive-through experience of more than two million LED lights and digital animations at Alabama Adventure - Prehistoric Christmas dinosaurs, a 32-foot animated waving Barbie, Bigfoot Monster Truck, and a walk-around Reindeer Rest Stop.
Magical Nights: Vulcan's Holiday Experience
A holiday light experience atop Red Mountain - trees and bushes wrapped in lights, two large light tunnels and timed light shows projected onto the 56-foot cast-iron Vulcan statue, with Birmingham skyline views, Santa photos, hot cocoa and
Cloutier Christmas Lights
The Cloutier family's pixel-mapped light show - more than 150,000 LED lights synchronized to music and a 40-foot mega-tree topped with an 8-foot star - winner of ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight (2022), now staged for free at Freedom F
Riverchase Galleria Holiday Display
The Riverchase Galleria dresses its glass-roofed grand court in a towering Christmas tree and holiday decor each season, with an annual tree lighting and Santa photos at Lower Level Center Court in front of Von Maur.
🏠 Decorated home displays
The Richardson Family Christmas Light Show
More than 30,000 lights synchronized to music broadcast on 88.3 FM, running the day after Thanksgiving through New Year's Day since 2007
Bama Lights
A residential display synchronized to music on 88.1 FM, with Santa visits on December nights
Latham's The Toy Shop
A family-owned home decked out with Christmas-character light displays
Meadowbrook Lights
A Meadow Brook neighborhood display on Brookhill Drive synchronized to an FM music station, lit nightly December 1-25
Peppertree Subdivision Lights
A Trussville subdivision where nearly every house decorates, anchored by a Santa's House display
Chestnut Road Christmas Lights
A Vestavia Hills street where neighbors light up their homes together with character-themed displays from the Grinch to Charlie Brown
The Preserve Holiday Lights
A Hoover traditional-neighborhood development whose homes and town-center green go all-out for the holidays
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