🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Celebration in the Oaks
New Orleans City Park's flagship holiday tradition and largest fundraiser: more than one million twinkling lights across a two-mile route, offered as both a drive-through Driving Tour and a Walking Tour with unlimited amusement-park rides a
Audubon Zoo Lights
Audubon Zoo transforms into a sparkling after-dark dreamland on select December nights, with larger-than-life silk-lighted replicas of the zoo's animals (including a 19-foot peacock), Santa photos, the Elves Workshop, caroling and live ente
Christmas in the Park at Lafreniere Park
Jefferson Parish's decades-old holiday light park in Metairie: more than 10 million LED lights, artificial snow and 40+ new displays plus classic themes (Marvel and DC, Minions, Disney princesses, a pirate ship, Star Wars and Peanuts), expe
Miracle on Fulton Street
A free downtown holiday spectacle on the Fulton Street pedestrian corridor beside Caesars/Harrah's New Orleans: twinkling lights, a 30-foot mega tree, hourly faux 'snow', live music and Santa visits on select nights, plus a magical gingerbr
NOLA ChristmasFest
An indoor holiday festival filling 300,000 square feet of the New Orleans Convention Center: New Orleans' only ice-skating rink, ice bumper cars, carnival rides, a life-sized gingerbread house, the Kringle Carousel, mini golf, Santa visits,
Holidays at The Roosevelt New Orleans
The Roosevelt's grand lobby 'Waldorf Wonderland' is a free, walk-through New Orleans holiday tradition: more than 112,000 lights, 1,600 feet of garland, roughly 4,000 glass ornaments, dozens of Christmas and birch trees, a life-size gingerb
LUNA Fete
Arts New Orleans' free Festival of Light, Art and Technology transforms downtown New Orleans - from Gallier Hall at Lafayette Square to the Piazza d'Italia - into a nighttime playground of LED lights, lasers and projected artworks celebrati
Kenner Christmas Village
Historic Rivertown in Kenner lights up for the holidays around Heritage Park: festive lighting and decorations, artificial snow, Santa photos, local food and craft vendors and community performances on Fridays and Saturdays, plus a holiday-
Lights on the Lake
The Pontchartrain Conservancy's family-friendly holiday fundraiser at the historic New Canal Lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain: the best vantage on the annual West End Boat Parade of decorated, illuminated vessels, with musical acts, activit
St. Tammany Parish Holiday of Lights
St. Tammany Parish's free holiday light celebration along Koop Drive in Mandeville: hundreds of twinkling lights and lighted displays through Santa's Enchanted Forest, a towering lighted Christmas-tree water tower, falling 'sneaux', carniva
Slidell's Bayou Christmas
Slidell's free walk-through holiday light display in Heritage Park, presented by the City of Slidell and the Boys & Girls Club: sparkling lights across the park, a narrated Nativity by artist Lori Anselmo, Santa and Mrs. Claus, an ice-skati
🏠 Decorated home displays
Robin Family Lights
Chalmette (St. Bernard Parish) home with multiple tall LED-lit trees, lawn lights and Christmas visuals projected onto the front of the house, all synchronized to music broadcast on 103.5 FM for park-and-tune viewing.
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
Old Metairie Holiday Lights Drive
The upscale, oak-lined Old Metairie neighborhood is a longtime free New Orleans-area holiday drive — residents light their historic homes and streets throughout December