🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Sever's Holiday Lights
The Twin Cities' biggest homegrown drive-through light show: a 2-mile course through 2,500,000+ lights dancing in time to holiday songs at Sever's farm off Hwy 169 in Shakopee, with festive food and drink vendors and an observation lot to w
Magic of Lights at Viking Lakes
A drive-through holiday lights spectacular at the Minnesota Vikings' Viking Lakes campus in Eagan, with about 2 million LED lights, digital animations, a 200-foot tunnel of lights and set pieces like the animated Waving Christmas Barbie and
Miracle at Big Rock
A Christmas wonderland in the snowy woods of Big Rock Creek near the St. Croix River: over 25 million lights plus sledding, fire pits and s'mores, live reindeer, a Miracle Market barn of artisan vendors, food trucks, live music and firework
Valley Lights
A free drive-through Christmas display of 100,000+ LED lights on the Rockpoint Church campus just west of Stillwater, off Hwy 36 near the Keats Avenue intersection, with a companion Christmas-music soundtrack to play as you drive.
Light Up Princeton
A free community drive-through light display at the Mille Lacs County Fairgrounds, kicked off each year by a lighted parade from City Hall. Around 20,000 lights synced to music, a sponsored Christmas Tree Lane, a photo-op parking area at th
Christmas in the Village
An old-time Christmas in a preserved early-1900s village of 22 historical buildings at the Dakota County Fairgrounds: lights and period ornaments, Christmas music in the church, a model train display, letters to Santa, and cocoa, cider and
Winter Lights at Centennial Lakes Park
The City of Edina dresses Centennial Lakes Park in holiday lights each winter. Walk or jog the paved loop around the central pond - or just grab a park bench - and take in the display, nightly from dusk to 10pm, free.
Rice Park Holiday Lights
Downtown Saint Paul's crown-jewel square - ringed by the Saint Paul Hotel, Landmark Center, the Ordway and the Central Library - fills with thousands of holiday lights each winter. Walk through or drive past; in 2025 a new music-synced ligh
Christmas in Excelsior
The Lake Minnetonka town that bills itself the Twin Cities capital for holiday festivities: a traditional German-style open-air Christkindlsmarkt with a Biergarten, a winter-themed electrical Parade of Lights, a tree lighting on the Commons
Wintertime in Stillwater Holiday Lights
Historic Main Street Stillwater and the St. Croix riverfront come alive with seasonal lights and decorations each holiday season - lighted Chestnut Street, a soaring LED Christmas tree, twinkling storefronts and the Lowell Park riverfront -
Christmas at the Crossings
Champlin's riverfront gathering space on the Mississippi lights up for the season with interactive displays - including a 30-foot animated musical tree panel, 16-foot walk-through gift box and ornament, and snowflake light poles - kicked of
🏠 Decorated home displays
Cairl Family Christmas Lights
Nightly synchronized show on 99.1 FM, 5:30-9:30pm
Porter's Holiday Light Show
Synchronized show on 87.9 FM, Sun-Thu 5-9pm and Fri-Sat 5-10pm from late November; also does Halloween
Kalata Christmas House
30,000 lights with inflatables, a manger scene with star, and a rooftop Santa with reindeer, daily 5-10:30pm
The Lights of Oxbow Cove
40,000 lights synced to music on 103.3 FM, nightly 5:30-9pm
Xmas Lights on Big Oak
Pixel light show with 24 songs on continuous loop, 91.9 FM; Sun-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-10:30pm
Christmas Ville
60,000 lights synced to music on 87.9 FM, nightly 5-11pm
R & C Christmas Wonderland
10,000 lights and 24 inflatables, with unusual morning hours (5:30-9am) plus evenings 4:30-11pm
Candy Cane Lane on Tilbury
Synced show on 97.5 FM plus a mail-a-letter-to-Santa box with return gift, a photo sleigh, and take-home candy canes; Mrs. Claus visits near Christmas
Sophie's Village
10,000 lights lit 24 hours a day over an extra-long season (Nov 1 - Jan 31)
Snook Family Lights
60,000 lights synced on 91.9 FM with an online next-song picker; 5-10pm Sun-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat
Christmas on Savanna
Synchronized show on 91.9 FM in a quiet Chaska neighborhood
Loss Family Light Show
Synchronized musical light show built from over 15,000 individually controlled pixels
Hope Lights: A Christmas Display
Synchronized show on 91.7 FM, lights on 5-10pm; park along the side of the road to watch
Ramsingh Family Lights
12,000 lights synced to music on 103.1 FM, nightly 5-10pm
Kirkwood Drive Christmas Display
A massive 250,000-light static display - one of the largest single-home counts in the metro
Lights on Fresno Street
Music synced to the lights on FM 106.5; starts with a Halloween show, then flips to Christmas
Langness Lights
Viewer-interactive Remote Falcon show synchronized to 93.1 FM, nightly 6:30-9pm; Halloween show in October, then Christmas with even more lights
Mellem Family Christmas Lights
Long-running Ham Lake musical display, broadcast on 89.1 FM
Bremer Farms Lights
10,000-light farm display with a 10th-annual 'Santa on the Farm' night with free take-home gifts for families
Hopkins Christmas House
20,000 lights in the heart of Hopkins, nightly 5-10:30pm
Coffey Family Christmas
40,000 lights plus a Christmas train display (weather permitting), nightly 5-11pm
Soldiers 6 Christmas Display
30,000 lights on 91.9 FM with 14- and 18-foot giant inflatables, plus free photo nights with Santa, the Grinch and Rudolph - kids get a free-meal certificate
A Christmas Story Movie Theme Display
A yard 100% themed to 'A Christmas Story': Ralphie inflatables, giant leg lamps, and a life-size Flick stuck to the flagpole
Anderson Family Display
20,000 lights, nightly 5-11pm
Glowing in the Grove
40,000 lights synced to music on 91.7 FM, nightly 4:30-9:30pm
Wanda's Land of Lights
50,000 lights synced to music on 91.7 FM; 5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat
Barrett Family Lights
Family display on the far western edge of the metro near Lake Minnetonka
Trista Lights
A roughly 15-minute synchronized show on 97.5 FM
Peanuts on Display
A Peanuts-gang themed yard - fitting for the home state of Charles Schulz - nightly 5:30-10pm
Yeti Land
A yeti-themed winter display, nightly 4:30-11pm
Setzerville
20,000 lights with two sleighs - one photo-op sleigh with 8 animated reindeer, one with an animated Santa - plus 4 projections and a Santa visit night
Cooper Family Lights
29,000 lights synced to music on 91.9 FM; 6-10pm Mon-Thu, 6-11pm Fri-Sun
Christmas on the Farm
10,000 lights and a collection of over 100 vintage blow molds on a Plymouth farmstead, with late-night hours (to 1am Fri-Sat)
Lights on Larch
10,000 lights synced to music on 106.5 FM, with longer hours on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve
Lights on Mushtown
Tens of thousands of lights synchronized on 91.9 FM (32,000+ per FFTC, 60,000 per the 2025 guide), nightly
One Little Spark
25,000 lights synced to music on 87.9 FM, nightly 4:30-11pm
Lights on Azurite
23,000 lights synced on 105.9 FM; decorates for Halloween, Christmas and other major holidays
Candy Cane Lane (Roseville)
25,000 lights with a 180-foot walk-through path featuring a Whoville scene, trains and mini candy canes; path open 9am-9pm
Shakopee Winter Wonderland
A walkable yard display where the family often hosts Santa visits, crafts, cookies and hot cocoa in the garage
Holiday Lights on 20th Street
Synchronized show on 99.3 FM; Mon-Thu 5:30-9pm, Fri-Sat 5:30-9:30pm
Holiday Lights of Woodbury
Runs Thanksgiving through New Year's plus a Halloween show; Sun-Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat 5-11pm
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