🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Omaha Holiday Lights Festival at Gene Leahy Mall
Omaha's signature downtown holiday tradition, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2025. The Gene Leahy Mall at The RiverFront is lit with color-changing up-lights, video projections onto the Performance Pavilion and Burlington Building, and
Bright Nights & Holiday Poinsettia Show at Lauritzen Gardens
Omaha's 100-acre botanical garden dresses for the holidays two ways. The daytime Holiday Poinsettia Show fills the floral display hall with more than 5,000 poinsettias in 25 varieties, a 20-foot poinsettia tree, and 300-plus feet of model-t
Zoolightful at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
An after-hours walk-through of Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo transformed into a glowing world of more than 800 handcrafted lanterns, radiant archways, towering illuminated animal sculptures and twinkling trails, with cookie decorating, a merry p
Santa's Rock n' Lights at Werner Park
A mile-plus drive-through light show at the Omaha Storm Chasers' Werner Park in Papillion (Sarpy County), with color-changing displays and larger-than-life light sculptures synchronized to holiday music broadcast to your car stereo on 90.3
ChristmasLand Drive-Thru (Valley)
A drive-through spread across 70 acres with more than two miles of paved road in Valley (Douglas County, west of Omaha), featuring thousands of lights, whimsical scenes and larger-than-life decorations in themed zones such as elf villages a
Nebraska Christmas Lights Show at Lake Cunningham
A drive-through light show at Lake Cunningham on Omaha's north side, with more than one million lights synchronized to holiday music broadcast to your car radio.
Winterfest at Bayliss Park
The City of Council Bluffs lights downtown Bayliss Park with more than 60,000 blue twinkle lights at the annual Winterfest kickoff, where Santa and the mayor lead a countdown and 'Jingle Bells' to flip the switch. The park then glows throug
Village Pointe Tree Lighting & Holiday Celebration
West Omaha's open-air Village Pointe shopping center opens the holidays with a free tree-lighting and holiday celebration - Santa arriving by parade along Davenport Street, a Peppermint Elves stage show, character meet-and-greets and free c
🏠 Decorated home displays
Rude Family Holiday Lights
An Elkhorn home in the Indian Pointe neighborhood (near 189th & Maple) with a music-synced display on 99.5 FM, lit nightly about 4:30-10:15pm
Sisters Claus on North 127th
The 'Sisters Claus' home, decorated for roughly 20 years into a beloved Omaha drive-by display
Jay Family Lights
A south Omaha home known as the Jay Family Lights
Fox River Holiday Lights
The 'Fox River Holiday Lights' home in Papillion's Monarch Place neighborhood (near 72nd & Hwy 370)
Whoville on Quail Drive
A Whoville-themed Grinch home in Omaha
Keystone Drive Lights
A heavily decorated Omaha home listed among the metro's favorite drive-by displays
Brownley Drive Light Show
A music-synced Omaha home display
Grand Avenue Light Show
A west Omaha home with lights synchronized to music on 90.9 FM
South 102nd Street Light Show
A music-synced Christmas light display in south-central Omaha
Valleyview Drive Light Show
A music-synced home display in Papillion
Buddy the Elf House
A La Vista home featuring Santa, Buddy the Elf and Grinch character displays
North 167th Avenue Lights
A decorated west Omaha home listed among the metro's drive-by favorites
Fairacres Road Lights
A decorated home in Omaha's Fairacres neighborhood
South 147th Street Lights
A decorated southwest Omaha home listed among the metro's drive-by favorites
South 110th Street Lights
A decorated Papillion home listed among the metro's drive-by favorites
South 131st Street Lights
A decorated west-central Omaha home listed among the metro's drive-by favorites
Cougar Avenue Winter Wonderland
A 'Winter Wonderland' animated home display in the Council Bluffs area (Honey Creek, IA)
Cougar Avenue Grinch Display
A Council Bluffs-area home with blue-and-white snowflakes and a 12-foot Grinch
Mellor Holiday Lights
The Mellor family display with 40,000+ LED lights and an animated Santa in a 65-foot Ford pickup, in Glenwood, IA (Omaha metro, south of Council Bluffs)
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