Light up your Christmas with Macaroni Kid's Guide to the best holiday light displays in the Wiregrass and sounding areas.
There's nothing quite like a Christmas. Nothing says Christmastime quite like thousands of colorful lights coordinated to music, and the Wiregrass is home to several outstanding displays. If you're looking for some free and festive fun, enjoy some of Wirgrass's best Christmas light presentations!
Whether you prefer a sophisticated or a synchronized song-and-dance extravaganza, a walk-through or a drive-through experience, here the best Christmas light displays in Wiregrass and the sounding areas. It just wouldn’t be Christmas time without viewing the twinkling lights with your family.
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Dothan -
Christmas on Oakwood Lights Display
We are excited to announce that our lights to music display is up and going and will continue until December 31. We will be changing songs as the Christmas season goes. Here's what you need to know!! Tune in to 98.1 fm. Dim or turn your headlights off. Please do not block driveways or streets. Please don't litter. Give time for others behind you to enjoy the show.. you can come back as often as you'd like.
Gardens A-Glow Christmas Lights @ Dothan Area Botanical Gardens
Join us for a late Fall walk around the Gardens on one of the five Friday nights between Thanksgiving and Christmas and see the Garden all Aglow with festive lighting of the season. 16, and 23, 5pm – 8 pm. This will be the 4th year for the event and it has become one of the must-do highlights of the season for the Dothan area community. Attendance has grown every year. Put it on your bucket list for this year! It is recommended that you bring a flashlight. Wheelchairs and pets on a lease are welcome. Stroll at your leisure and enjoy the sights of the lights. Hot chocolate, coffee, and cookies are provided as well as music and a campfire. A visit with Santa Claus is a must for the children.Sponsored for the third straight year by Dothan Volkswagen
Enterprise -
Christmas Lights Corner @ Halloween Corner
Please Click on the link to view all the times and information for each location:
Dothan -
Christmas on Oakwood Lights Display
We are excited to announce that our lights to music display is up and going and will continue until December 31. We will be changing songs as the Christmas season goes. Here's what you need to know!! Tune in to 98.1 fm. Dim or turn your headlights off. Please do not block driveways or streets. Please don't litter. Give time for others behind you to enjoy the show.. you can come back as often as you'd like.
Gardens A-Glow Christmas Lights @ Dothan Area Botanical Gardens
Join us for a late Fall walk around the Gardens on one of the five Friday nights between Thanksgiving and Christmas and see the Garden all Aglow with festive lighting of the season. 16, and 23, 5pm – 8 pm. This will be the 4th year for the event and it has become one of the must-do highlights of the season for the Dothan area community. Attendance has grown every year. Put it on your bucket list for this year! It is recommended that you bring a flashlight. Wheelchairs and pets on a lease are welcome. Stroll at your leisure and enjoy the sights of the lights. Hot chocolate, coffee, and cookies are provided as well as music and a campfire. A visit with Santa Claus is a must for the children.Sponsored for the third straight year by Dothan Volkswagen
Enterprise -
Christmas Lights Corner @ Halloween Corner
Christmas Lights Corner. Come see our Christmas Lights The hours will be : SUNDAY-THURSDSY 6pm-9pm, and FRIDAY-SATURDAY 6pm-10pm. If it is raining, the lights will be ON, ( unless it is storming bad) but the yard won't open for walk-throughs, safety is always first! If it doesn't rain, I unfortunally won't be able to have a nice fire, but I WILL still be out there all bundled up! We are gonna do a few game during the season too!
I'm still asking for gallon milk jugs, so please save them for me if ya can!
Trawick's Christmas in the Woodlands
WE ARE OPEN! Let the Holiday Season begin! Sunday-Thursday 5:00-9:00Friday-Saturday 5:00-10:00 Christmas in the Woodlands will offer train rides thru the Christmas lights display on Monday-Thursday, December 5th-8th and Monday-Thursday, December 12th-15th weather permitting from 5:30-7:30. We will post each day by 4:30 if train rides are cancelled due to rainy or wet conditions. Cost is $3.00 per rider. Please park at end and follow signs to train.
WEBB -
Country Christmas Village of Lights
Bring the whole family and drive through The Trail of Christmas Lights and Beautiful Country Christmas Display Scenes. Hand and chain carved scenes, with thousands of beautiful Christmas lights. You can enjoy all the beauty from the comfort of your car, as you drive through. Come out and experience a wonderful family Christmas event.
WICKSBURG -
Holiday Spectacular Park
Holiday Spectacular Park in Wicksburg, AL is the perfect place to enjoy the season. During the month of December each year, the park is open during the evening hours so that visitors can enjoy their spectacular light display and take in a host of other activities. This is a family-friendly park you will enjoy bringing your children to during their Christmas vacation from school, because it is free from profanity, drugs and alcohol. Park opens 5:30PM and closes 9:30PM until December 31st, 2013.
TRAVEL WORTHY -
Andalusia - Christmas in Candyland
Join us every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in December on the Andalusia Square for Snow Machines, Custom build Candyland Cottages - amazing playhouses built just for kids, and other events. Friday from 5-7pm, Saturday from 4-6pm, and Sunday from 2-4pm. Venture down East Three Notch Street for shopping and dining options and join us at Springdale on Ice, Candyland's newest attraction. There will be a winter skating rink and trackless train open Thursday - Sunday, Dec 5-20 and another Candyland Cottage Christmas Village
DeFuniak Spring - Christmas Reflections Light Up @ Lake DeFuniak
Celebrate the season of lights along the lake. Enjoy a holiday family tradition in DeFuniak Sprigs as the Lakeyard lights up with the annual Christmas Reflections displays. A variety of Victorian, animal and toy soldier cutouts, Santa's workshop, the grandfather clock ticking away; and the real reason for the season, the Nativity Scene all surrounded by twinkling trees. More than 3 million lights reflect on to the lake glowing in holiday splendor.
Donalsonville, GA - Seminole Tour of Lights
Drive through the park decorated like a Winter Wonderland filled with holiday lights.
Montgomery - Christmas Lights Festival @ The Zoo
Christmas Lights Festival lights up all of the zoo and transforms it into a Winter Wonderful for 25 nights this year. See the Montgomery Zoo transformed into a Winter Wonderland sparkling with thousands of lights and festive decorations. Take a leisurely stroll, a brisk train ride or see the lights from atop the Zoofari Skylift Ride. Visit Santa, enjoy the live nightly entertainment and no winter's night would be complete without some warming hot chocolate and fresh baked cookies. The festival runs nightly 5:30-9:30pm (last admission tickets are sold at 9pm, everyone must exit the festival by 9:30pm)
A little elf told me that Santa may be at some of the light shows,so be on the look out for your perfect picture!
Trawick's Christmas in the Woodlands
WE ARE OPEN! Let the Holiday Season begin! Sunday-Thursday 5:00-9:00Friday-Saturday 5:00-10:00 Christmas in the Woodlands will offer train rides thru the Christmas lights display on Monday-Thursday, December 5th-8th and Monday-Thursday, December 12th-15th weather permitting from 5:30-7:30. We will post each day by 4:30 if train rides are cancelled due to rainy or wet conditions. Cost is $3.00 per rider. Please park at end and follow signs to train.
WEBB -
Country Christmas Village of Lights
Bring the whole family and drive through The Trail of Christmas Lights and Beautiful Country Christmas Display Scenes. Hand and chain carved scenes, with thousands of beautiful Christmas lights. You can enjoy all the beauty from the comfort of your car, as you drive through. Come out and experience a wonderful family Christmas event.
WICKSBURG -
Holiday Spectacular Park
Holiday Spectacular Park in Wicksburg, AL is the perfect place to enjoy the season. During the month of December each year, the park is open during the evening hours so that visitors can enjoy their spectacular light display and take in a host of other activities. This is a family-friendly park you will enjoy bringing your children to during their Christmas vacation from school, because it is free from profanity, drugs and alcohol. Park opens 5:30PM and closes 9:30PM until December 31st, 2013.
TRAVEL WORTHY -
Andalusia - Christmas in Candyland
Join us every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in December on the Andalusia Square for Snow Machines, Custom build Candyland Cottages - amazing playhouses built just for kids, and other events. Friday from 5-7pm, Saturday from 4-6pm, and Sunday from 2-4pm. Venture down East Three Notch Street for shopping and dining options and join us at Springdale on Ice, Candyland's newest attraction. There will be a winter skating rink and trackless train open Thursday - Sunday, Dec 5-20 and another Candyland Cottage Christmas Village
DeFuniak Spring - Christmas Reflections Light Up @ Lake DeFuniak
Celebrate the season of lights along the lake. Enjoy a holiday family tradition in DeFuniak Sprigs as the Lakeyard lights up with the annual Christmas Reflections displays. A variety of Victorian, animal and toy soldier cutouts, Santa's workshop, the grandfather clock ticking away; and the real reason for the season, the Nativity Scene all surrounded by twinkling trees. More than 3 million lights reflect on to the lake glowing in holiday splendor.
Donalsonville, GA - Seminole Tour of Lights
Drive through the park decorated like a Winter Wonderland filled with holiday lights.
Montgomery - Christmas Lights Festival @ The Zoo
Christmas Lights Festival lights up all of the zoo and transforms it into a Winter Wonderful for 25 nights this year. See the Montgomery Zoo transformed into a Winter Wonderland sparkling with thousands of lights and festive decorations. Take a leisurely stroll, a brisk train ride or see the lights from atop the Zoofari Skylift Ride. Visit Santa, enjoy the live nightly entertainment and no winter's night would be complete without some warming hot chocolate and fresh baked cookies. The festival runs nightly 5:30-9:30pm (last admission tickets are sold at 9pm, everyone must exit the festival by 9:30pm)
A little elf told me that Santa may be at some of the light shows,so be on the look out for your perfect picture!
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