🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Winter Lights Festival
A 3.5-mile drive-through holiday light show at Seneca Creek State Park with more than 450 illuminated displays and lit trees along an enchanted woodland route (themed scenes include Fairytale, Victorian Village and Mermaid Lagoon). Visitors
Bull Run Festival of Lights
A 2.5-mile drive-through holiday light display at Bull Run Regional Park, experienced from your car with headlights off, following the glow. A separate walk-up Holiday Village and Carnival offers a petting zoo, Ferris wheel, rides and carni
Winter Walk of Lights
A half-mile paved, wheelchair- and stroller-accessible walking trail through Meadowlark Botanical Gardens lined with animated light displays themed on nature, winter and the holidays, plus s'mores, hot beverages and interactive installation
Christmas at Gaylord National (ICE! featuring The Polar Express)
A resort-wide indoor holiday event at Gaylord National on the Potomac at National Harbor. The signature attraction, ICE! featuring Warner Bros.' The Polar Express, hand-carves about 2 million pounds of ice into nine colossal walk-through sc
Festival of Lights
A free outdoor display of more than 500,000 Christmas lights along a marked walking pathway (about a 20-minute stroll) on the grounds of the Washington DC Temple Visitors' Center, plus an indoor international creche exhibit of 100+ nativiti
Festival of Lights
A drive-through holiday light attraction at Watkins Regional Park where families view illuminated seasonal scenes from their vehicle. Add-on hayrides run Thursday through Saturday in timed slots. A long-running Prince George's County Parks
🏠 Decorated home displays
Woodlea Hills Lights (Hillview Place)
Holiday songs synchronized to lights and broadcast on 98.3 FM, Sun-Thu 5-10 p.m. and Fri-Sat 5-11 p.m.
The Christmas House at the Lakes at Red Rock
Large animatronic display (including a Flying Hippo and Kayaking Bear), running sunset to 11 p.m.
Holtz Family Lights (Misty Creek)
70+ songs synchronized on 90.5 FM with an interactive Santa mailbox and a selfie angel-wing station
Gryphon Lights
Music-synchronized show on 89.7 FM, Sun-Thu 5-10 p.m. and Fri-Sat 5-10:30 p.m.
Lucy's Land of Lights
Nightly music-synchronized show on 93.5 FM starting around Thanksgiving, 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Round Hill Griswold House (Saint James Drive)
Griswold / Christmas Vacation-themed display synchronized to 101.7 FM, Sun-Thu 5-9:30 p.m. and Fri-Sat 5-11 p.m.
James Family Lights (Thorngate)
Music-synchronized display on 96.1 FM, Sun-Thu 5-9:30 p.m. and Fri-Sat 5-10:30 p.m.
Golden Leaf Lights
About 15,000 lights synchronized to music on 104.3 FM, daily 6-10 p.m. until January 4
Lights on Robin Lynn Court
Music-synchronized display on 100.7 FM collecting donations for the Honor Flight Network, Nov 29 - Jan 4
Andruzzi Family Lights (Pensacola Place)
More than 50,000 lights with photo cutouts and music; snow effects on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings
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
Oakton Park Court Holiday Cul-de-Sac
A cul-de-sac that 'goes all out as a neighborhood for holiday decorating,' with a neighborhood Santa visit and hot-chocolate truck night during the season