🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
WildLanterns
A walk-through winter wonderland of large illuminated lantern sculptures set along themed trails at Woodland Park Zoo, with nightly acrobatic performances at the PACCAR Auditorium. WildLanterns replaced the zoo's older 'WildLights' display
Zoolights
A roughly 38-year Tacoma tradition featuring more than 1.5 million lights along a walk-through route at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, with signature displays of the Narrows Bridges, a giant Pacific octopus, a flame tree and Sasquatch.
The Lights of Christmas
Over one million lights across 15 acres at Warm Beach Camp near Stanwood, with a Christmas market, food village, train rides, mini-golf and a light maze. For its 30th year in 2026 the event becomes primarily a walking experience with a hand
Garden d'Lights
A walk-through display of more than half a million lights shaped into botanically correct plants, flowers, birds, animals and cascading waterfalls throughout the Bellevue Botanical Garden, hand-built by roughly 130 volunteers. Live music pl
Snowflake Lane
A free nightly holiday parade down Bellevue Way with roughly 250 costumed performers, live drummers, floats, lights and falling 'snow' every evening at 7 p.m. outside The Bellevue Collection shopping district. It is a lighted holiday parade
Fantasy Lights
The Northwest's premier drive-through light display: a roughly two-mile route through Spanaway Park with 300-plus animated displays, with a synchronized soundtrack broadcast to AM 1700 on the car radio. A separate non-motorized 'Fantasy Lig
Argosy Christmas Ship Festival
A Puget Sound tradition since 1949: a ship strung with hundreds of white lights sails to 40-plus waterfront communities across Puget Sound, Lake Washington and Lake Union, with an onboard choir broadcasting a roughly 20-minute performance t
Clam Lights
A free walk-through display of more than 200,000 lights along over a mile of Lake Washington shoreline at Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park in Renton, sponsored by Ivar's and featuring 'clammy' holiday characters. Lit nightly from 5 to 9 p.m.
Redmond Lights
A free month-long 'celebration of art and light' with artist-made illuminated installations shown nightly in Redmond's Downtown Park and Esterra Park, plus a kick-off event with a luminary trail, faux snowfall, tree lighting and live perfor
Wintertide Lights
A free self-guided walk through holiday light displays at the Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens in Everett, running daily through December (roughly 4-8 p.m.), plus a dedicated Solstice Luminary Walk evening with luminaries, music and children
🏠 Decorated home displays
The Very Merry Christmas House
A free 'Stars of Christmas' drive-by display in Kent with 75,000-plus LED lights synchronized to classic holiday music.
Keener's Christmas
A Bothell front-yard 'wonderland' split into themed zones (Santa land, snowman land, deer land) with 100,000-plus lights, drive-through only.
Lights Actually
A drive-by synchronized flashing-light show in Seattle's Maple Leaf neighborhood (started 2020), running for both Halloween and Christmas.
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✨ Famous light streets & neighborhoods
Candy Cane Lane (Ravenna)
Circular street of 23 houses fully lit every year since 1949
Olympic Manor Holiday Lights
Mid-century-modern Crown Hill neighborhood where most homes go all-out; a spinning carousel of Santas marks the entrance and cars snake through the streets nightly