🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Oregon ZooLights
A walk-through winter attraction at the Oregon Zoo in Washington Park with more than 1.5 million lights, illuminated animal sculptures and light tunnels along the zoo's forested pathways, plus the zoo train and carousel. A signature Portlan
Christmas Festival of Lights at The Grotto
Billed as the world's largest Christmas choral festival, a roughly quarter-mile walk-through of holiday lights across the wooded grounds of The Grotto in Northeast Portland, paired with nearly 160 indoor choir concerts ('Choirs in the Chape
Winter Wonderland at Portland International Raceway
The Pacific Northwest's largest drive-through holiday light show, spanning the racetrack at Portland International Raceway with over a million lights, 250-plus light set pieces, animated scenes and light tunnels along a roughly 35-minute ro
Portland Winter Light Festival
A free, nine-day citywide festival of light-based art installations, projections and interactive displays after dark across Portland, presented by the nonprofit Willamette Light Brigade. Anchor sites include Pioneer Courthouse Square, the W
Pittock Mansion: Home for the Holidays
The historic Pittock Mansion in Portland's West Hills is decked out room by room for the holidays each winter (2025's 'A Decades Tour' themed nineteen mansion rooms plus the Gate Lodge across five decades). This is a daytime, walk-through d
Christmas Ships Parade
A Portland-area tradition since the 1950s: a fleet of 55-60 privately owned, festively lit sailboats and yachts parades in formation up and down the Willamette and Columbia rivers over roughly two-and-a-half weeks each December, with a diff
Lightopia (Hillsboro)
One of the Portland metro's largest free drive-through light displays, put on by the City of Hillsboro along a roughly half-mile, ~15-minute route at the Gordon Faber Recreation Complex (Hillsboro Stadium), featuring hundreds of light vigne
Holiday Lights at Meinig Park
A free, walk-through holiday light display at Meinig Memorial Park in downtown Sandy (Clackamas County), with thousands of lights, holiday music and creative scenes - Santa, reindeer, snowmen, candy canes, penguins and elves. The City of Sa
🏠 Decorated home displays
Todd & Michelle's Winter Wonderland
A Lake Oswego home at the corner of Indian Springs Rd and Childs Rd where nearly every square foot of the house and yard is covered in lights and decorations; the owners (who ran a similar display for years in California
New Forest Drive Light Show (Beaverton)
A Beaverton front-yard holiday display whose lights are synchronized to music broadcast to visitors' car radios on 87.9 FM.
West Point Avenue Light Show (Portland)
A Southwest Portland home display with external speakers playing the show's soundtrack and a posted QR code that lets visitors request songs.
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
Peacock Lane
'Portland's Christmas Street' since the 1920s — Tudor homes and a free cocoa booth