🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Glendale Glitters
Glendale's signature holiday tradition lights up Downtown Glendale with millions of twinkling lights, interactive displays, holiday scenes, carolers, vendors and Santa visits. A kickoff festival weekend opens the season, after which the lig
Mesa Temple Christmas Lights
One of the largest Christmas lighting events in the Southwest, running since 1979 and recently drawing more than 1.5 million visitors a season. Hundreds of thousands of lights and biblical vignettes fill the temple's north lawn, with a free
Christmas at the Princess
The self-styled 'Southwest's most extraordinary celebration': 16 million lights across 65 acres of the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess resort, a 120-foot Ferris wheel (the nation's largest traveling wheel), a 6,000-square-foot real-ice outdoor
Holiday Lights at McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
Scottsdale's 30-acre city-run railroad park transforms into a walk-through winter wonderland of holiday lights and displays, with rides aboard the Paradise & Pacific Railroad through the illuminated park, the 1950-vintage Allan Herschell ca
Fantasy of Lights Street Parade + Tree Lighting
Downtown Tempe's holiday season opener: an evening street parade down Mill Avenue with dazzling floats, performers and holiday characters (parade steps off at 6 p.m.), followed by the lighting of Downtown Tempe's 36-foot holiday tree at Cen
Fantasy of Lights Boat Parade
Each December, Tempe Town Lake hosts a free, family-friendly evening (4-9 p.m.) with a holiday market, live entertainment, letters and photos with Santa, then the main event: a boat parade of vessels decked out in holiday lights, inflatable
Sparkling Surprise
The City of Surprise's free walk-through holiday light display at Surprise Community Park, wrapping the lake and the area outside Surprise Stadium. Per the city's official page: a 30-foot Christmas tree with over 18,000 lights, a 20-foot sn
Merry Main Street
The City of Mesa's award-winning downtown holiday season along Main Street: Mesa's official 40-foot Christmas tree on Macdonald north of Main Street, the Winter Wonderland Ice Rink at the Plaza at Mesa City Center, free visits with Santa (F
🏠 Decorated home displays
Shepard Family Christmas
30,000-plus lights near Osborn Rd and 21st St; the 2025 display had a Narnia-inspired theme with 11 glowing trees. A perennial central Phoenix favorite.
Arcadia Christmas House
Lee 'Christmas Lee' Sepanek's famous Arcadia display, now spanning three homes with 50,000 lights - downsized from its once-massive scale but still a nightly draw.
The Deepdale Arcade
A playable Christmas display in Moon Valley: visitors use glowing joysticks to play Pong and Pac-Man on a 3,000-pixel LED screen mounted on the roof, with high scores posted to the family's website.
Makela Family Light Show
Animated pixel show of roughly 30,000-40,000 synchronized lights programmed by homeowner Sean Makela - a ~25-minute concert-style show of remixed Christmas and pop tracks, broadcast on 91.3 FM.
ReinDeer Valley Christmas
Running since 2012 and growing every year: 70,000 LEDs, heavy Mickey Mouse iconography, nightly music-synced shows, and weekend bubbles and artificial snow.
Palacio Residence (South Park House)
Emilio Palacio's full-scale 'South Park' holiday tribute: more than 75 plywood characters across the yard, porch and rooftop, from Cartman to Scuzzlebutt and A.W.E.S.O.M.-O.
Phoenix Winter Wonderland
David Chuchla's 32-year tradition: thousands of lights and hundreds of animated figures outside, nearly every interior room decorated, and even the backyard pool in on the act - visitors are invited to tour the home.
Lewis Lights on Palmaire
Jason and Crystal Lewis's 40,000-plus lights, two dozen inflatables and mega trees; Santa and Mrs. Claus hand out free hot cocoa and candy canes on Sundays.
Laveen Christmas House
Mel and Patti Tasker's drive-thru wonderland, one of the biggest home displays in Arizona: 300,000 multicolored LEDs, illuminated zoo animals and 500 hand-painted comic and cartoon character cutouts.
Cox Family Lights
Brolin Cox's nightly synchronized shows: a 20-foot mega tree and 40,000-plus LEDs choreographed to dozens of holiday tunes.
M&S Lights
Mike and Stacie Parsons' towering 'It's a Small World' facade with the iconic clock face, computerized shows synced across neighboring houses (88.1 FM), nightly snowfall and a Santa mailbox that answers every letter.
The Keeleys' Light Show
An animated show of 25,000-plus LEDs dancing across trees and arches to a varied soundtrack of pop, rock and EDM - with New Year's Eve countdown shows at 10, 11 and midnight.
Pelky Residence (Birthday Card for Jesus)
Michael and Shelley Pelky's 30-year front-yard epic: about 120,000 lights with Rankin-Bass characters, a full manger scene, Misfit Island, glowing angel choirs, a candy-cane forest and a photo booth.
Santa's Runway (Dingman Residence)
Danny Dingman's aviation-themed spectacle: 65,000-plus lights, hundreds of glowing decorations, a fleet of Disney characters and airport-worthy landing lights for Santa.
Mesa Christmas
Computer-animated lights and video synced to music on 107.5 FM, with about 30,000 lights, animatronic singing dolls, bubbles, snow, a light tunnel, a dance floor and angel-wing photo ops.
Eastmark Griswolds
A two-story Eastmark home wrapped 360 degrees in lights top to bottom - the listing claims over a million lights - with handmade DIY decorations, Disney characters, lighted walk-through arches and a photo prop.
Merry Sithmas
Star Wars-themed display with 13 inflatables, 4 projectors and 10,000 lights.
What is Christmas?
A 50,000-light Bethlehem scene in five stages with music, telling the chronological story of the Nativity.
Lights on Sterling
30,000 Christmas lights synced to cheerful tunes, running Nov 25 - Jan 1 from 5 to 10:30 p.m. in the family's 2025 listing.
Glenrosa Lights
Around 100,000 lights synchronized to 45 songs - tune to 91.9 FM to listen from the car.
Lights on Crocus
Over 75,000 lights with inflatables, classic blow molds and hand-crafted wood cutouts, plus a red Santa mailbox - include a self-addressed stamped envelope and Santa mails a reply.
Mollick Magic Christmas
10,000 lights synchronized to music - Star Wars, Elvis, Blue Man Group and more - with a snow machine on Saturday evenings in December.
Merry and Bright
A charming Fountain Hills display the owner sums up as 'Just a dad and his lights.'
Surprise Lights
A music light show of holiday classics reimagined with rock, punk and hip-hop influences, playing on the hour from 5-10 p.m. with about 25 minutes of songs.
Taylor Sitera Disney Display
An Ahwatukee cul-de-sac home with 17 lit Disney characters, all-night Christmas music and easy in-and-out photo stops.
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