🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Southern Lights Holiday Festival
Lexington's signature holiday tradition since 1993: a roughly three-mile drive-through tour of the Kentucky Horse Park lit by more than a million lights and animated displays, including a '12 Days of Christmas' sequence, all viewed from the
Legendary Festival of Lights
A walk-through holiday light festival that debuted in 2025, transforming Lexington's Legends Field ballpark (home of the Lexington Legends) into a display of more than 1.5 million lights with themed scenes, live entertainment, photos with S
Winter Village at Gatton Park
A free, nightly walk-through winter wonderland in Gatton Park on the Town Branch, Lexington's new downtown park. Visitors wander beneath hundreds of thousands of warm twinkling lights, step inside an 80-foot digital Christmas tree with a 36
Downtown Lexington Holiday Lights at Triangle Park
Downtown Lexington's civic holiday centerpiece: the city Christmas tree at Triangle Park, lit each year at the free Holiday Lighting Festival (branded Luminate Lexington by the Downtown Lexington Partnership), surrounded by sparkling tree-l
Lexington Fire Station 20 Light Show
A free, community-favorite choreographed Christmas light-and-music show that firefighters put up at Lexington Fire Station 20 on the city's southwest side, synchronized to music you tune in at 91.1 FM and watched from your car. A grassroots
Christmas at Mustard Seed Hill
A walk-through holiday experience on the historic Mustard Seed Hill campus in Millersburg (Bourbon County), about 30 minutes northeast of Lexington: millions of lights across three glowing acres with a 30-foot ribbon tree, glowing archways,
Illuminated Evenings at Shaker Village
Select December Saturday evenings at the National Historic Landmark Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill near Harrodsburg glow with twinkling lights, roaring bonfires and holiday music across the restored 19th-century Shaker campus, with perform
Holidays at the Trace - Spirited Nights
Part of Buffalo Trace Distillery's long-running 'Holidays at the Trace' in Frankfort: a free nightly drive-through light show winding through the illuminated historic distillery grounds, complemented by a free after-hours walk-through Light
🏠 Decorated home displays
Mt. McKinley Way Lights
A heavily decorated Lexington home lit nightly through the holiday season - a classic drive-by neighborhood display
Turner House Christmas Lights
A long-running, heavily decorated Lexington home on Chinoe Road lit nightly through the holidays
Toronto Road Holidays
A Lexington home packed with lights and inflatable characters (Rudolph, Mickey, Snoopy, SpongeBob) - a kid-favorite drive-by
Featherston Drive Lights
A community-submitted Lexington home display lit late into the evening through the holidays
Home locations are shown approximately in the Noelly app to respect residents — please be courteous, keep the street clear, and follow posted hours.