🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Zoolumination: Chinese Festival of Lights
The country's largest Chinese lantern festival: a walk-through of more than 1,000 custom silk lanterns, holiday scenes and live entertainers across the Nashville Zoo, with nightly Santa visits late November through Christmas Eve.
Holiday LIGHTS at Cheekwood
A one-mile illuminated walking path through Cheekwood's gardens with more than a million lights, a 28-foot Pixel Pine, a decorated historic mansion and s'mores, timed entry every 30 minutes. The 2025 theme was 'Sweet Dreams.'
A Country Christmas at Gaylord Opryland (ICE!)
Gaylord Opryland's 42nd annual A Country Christmas, anchored by ICE! - walk-through scenes and two-story slides carved from two million pounds of ice (2025 theme: 'A Charlie Brown Christmas') - plus more than three million holiday lights on
The Dancing Lights of Christmas
Billed as Tennessee's largest drive-through light-and-music show: a 2.5-mile route with more than two million LED lights synchronized to Christmas music on your car radio, plus Santa's Village with a petting zoo, at the James E. Ward Agricu
FrankTown Festival of Lights
A 1.5-mile drive-through at the Williamson County Ag Expo Park with more than 200 light displays synchronized to Christmas music on the car radio, glowing tunnels, a giant lighted tree and free nightly Santa photos. A fundraiser for the Fra
Chad's Winter Wonderland
An eight-acre drive-through built by Chad Barnard with more than two million lights, a drive-through Santa's house and a life-size nativity in Lebanon. The display competed on ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight in 2014.
Dickens of a Christmas
Middle Tennessee's largest free outdoor Christmas festival: historic downtown Franklin transformed into the world of Charles Dickens, with costumed characters, carolers, 150+ craft vendors and food, produced each December by the nonprofit H
🏠 Decorated home displays
London's Lights
A tribute display of roughly 875,000 lights built by Brad Henn in honor of his late daughter London, with a free walk, shuttle service and a toy drive
Lights on Trotters
A free residential walk-through of more than 500,000 synchronized lights with snow machines, voted a top Middle Tennessee display
BooneShine Family Lights
About 18,000 lights dancing to music broadcast on 105.5 FM
Hobbs Family Lights
More than 10,000 lights synchronized to traditional, rock and Disney music in the Fairway Farms community
Sunnyside Christmas Lights
A Brentwood cul-de-sac where eight homes decorate together; featured on NPT's Tennessee Crossroads
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
Princeton Hills Neighborhood Christmas Lights
Established Brentwood subdivision where practically every home decorates — a longtime local drive-through favorite off Franklin Rd
Lockeland Springs Neighborhood Holiday Lights
East Nashville historic streetcar-suburb with a neighborhood-wide holiday lights competition and annual holiday trolley/home tours
Westhaven Community Holiday Lights
Large planned Franklin community described as one of the area's most coordinated residential displays — white-light homes, wreaths and a 40+ ft community tree at Mattox Lake