🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
Central Ohio's flagship holiday-lights outing, now past its 37th year: the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell strings millions of LED lights across its grounds for an after-dark walk with animated musical light shows, new immersive light p
Conservatory Aglow at Franklin Park Conservatory
The Franklin Park Conservatory on Columbus's near east side fills its glasshouses and botanical gardens with thousands of holiday lights for evening 'Aglow' strolls: extravagant poinsettia vignettes and a 10-foot poinsettia tree, a life-siz
Butch Bando's Fantasy of Lights
A long-running central Ohio drive-through: roughly a three-mile route through the Alum Creek State Park campgrounds near Delaware, past holiday scenes, arches and dazzling light tunnels, taking about half an hour from the comfort of your ca
Wanderlights at Columbus Commons
Downtown Columbus's free winter lights experience, centered on Columbus Commons and extending along Town Street to the Scioto Mile. The Commons anchors it with a 40-foot lit tree, more than 150 lighted trees, 16-plus decorated garden beds a
City of Dublin Tree Lighting
The City of Dublin opens its holiday season with a free tree-lighting ceremony at Coffman Park, lighting a 30-foot tree with caroling, performances, ice sculpting and Santa and Mrs. Claus. From there, Historic Dublin's charming streets and
Inniswood Illuminated
Each December the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks light Inniswood Metro Gardens, a 123-acre botanical garden in Westerville, for a free after-dark stroll through illuminated gardens and paths — part of a wider Metro Parks holiday-l
Lucy Depp Park Light Show
A free, roughly half-mile drive-through light show built by a group of neighbors in the historic Lucy Depp Park community near Powell — more than 12 acres and about nine houses lit and synchronized to music you tune in at 87.9 FM. A homegro
Licking County Courthouse Lighting
One of Ohio's oldest courthouse lightings: more than 18,000 bulbs (about 8,800 on the 1876 Licking County Courthouse itself, plus thousands more across the lawn and decorations) outline the building on the public square in downtown Newark.
🏠 Decorated home displays
Dazzling Christmas Lights
Roughly 100,000 lights that dance to music at a home in Westerville's Annehurst neighborhood
The Gibbswold House
A National Lampoon 'Griswold'-style home light show of about 20,000 lights in the Butler Farms area (Obetz) south of Columbus
Sawmill Meadows Lights
A single home on the northwest side that goes all-out for both Christmas and Halloween, covered by local Columbus news stations
Home locations are shown approximately in the Noelly app to respect residents — please be courteous, keep the street clear, and follow posted hours.
✨ Famous light streets & neighborhoods
Lucy Depp Park Light Show
A historic Powell neighborhood (Lucy Depp Park) whose ~9 homes run a 120,000-pixel synchronized drive-through light show on a half-mile loop tuned to 87.9 FM — one of Central Ohio's most advanced neighborhood shows