🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Christmas Town
The theme park transforms for Christmas Town with more than ten million twinkling lights, one of the largest light displays in North America. This is a walk-through experience inside the park: holiday shows and musicals, Santa's Workshop, t
Grand Illumination
A colonial-era holiday tradition that kicks off the Christmas season in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. On Grand Illumination Saturdays the town illuminates: candles glow in windows, cressets are lit, the Historic Area is dressed in
Dominion Energy Garden of Lights
A roughly one-mile walking route through Norfolk Botanical Garden lit with more than 1.5 million twinkling lights - the lit NATO Tower, a walk-through Mega Tree, the sparkling conifer garden, and newer installations like the Neon Fusion of
WinterFest on the Wisconsin
A walk-through holiday lights celebration aboard and around the historic Battleship Wisconsin and the Nauticus waterfront campus in downtown Norfolk - the reigning Heavyweight champion of ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight (2025). The ca
Holiday Lights at the Beach
A roughly two-mile drive-through holiday light show along the Virginia Beach oceanfront boardwalk - you enter at 2nd Street and exit at 33rd Street, following illuminated 'Nautical, Holiday and Adventure' scenes against the moonlit Atlantic
Celebration in Lights
Billed as Virginia's first holiday drive-through light show: two miles of over one million lights winding through the woods and waterways of Newport News Park, viewed from your car. More than 350 display pieces, 50+ arches and three-plus mi
Deck the Hall at Chesapeake City Hall
A free drive-through holiday light display presented by Chesapeake Parks, Recreation & Tourism at Chesapeake City Hall, with more than 50,000 holiday lights. On select December nights the companion 'Fa La La Land' turns the grounds into a w
🏠 Decorated home displays
Woodland Christmas Wonderland
A free walk-up display of more than 100,000 lights that the Williford family runs annually to raise money for the Portsmouth Humane Society
Burns Family Christmas Lights and Nativity
A neighborhood home Christmas lights display with a nativity scene
Ledbetter's Holly Jolly Inflatable Christmas Extravaganza
An inflatable-heavy home display billed as the 'Holly Jolly Inflatable Christmas Extravaganza'
Phillips Family Christmas Lights
A neighborhood home Christmas lights display featured in the 2025 Hampton Roads best-lights guide
Piazza Family Christmas Lights
A neighborhood home Christmas lights display featured in the 2025 Hampton Roads best-lights guide
Priest Family Christmas
A neighborhood home holiday display featured in the 2025 Hampton Roads best-lights guide
Sheely Family Lights
A neighborhood home holiday lights display featured in the 2025 Hampton Roads best-lights guide
Stern Family Holiday Light Show
A home holiday light show featured in the 2025 Hampton Roads best-lights guide
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