Phoenix will be aglow from now until New Year’s Day with light displays. We have compiled a list of the 20 best holiday light displays in the Phoenix area. From homes to the zoo Phoenix is getting into the Holiday spirit.
Candy Cane Lane
2801 East Pinchot Avenue, Phoenix
Since 1988, Pinchot Avenue between 26th and 28th turns into a winter wonderland. Residents in the neighborhood string lights on palm trees. A glowing star and peace symbol hang from a canopy overhead.
Dates and Times: On display nightly until January 1, starting at 5 p.m.
Peanuts Airport
1146 North Quail Lane, Gilbert
The peanuts crew is classic Holiday tradition, and this light display pays homage to this. Organized like an airport, complete with a runway and control tower, it features an inflatable version of Snoopy as a World War I ace bringing his Sopwith Camel in for a landing while cutouts of Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Linus, Lucy, and other characters are waiting to greet him. It’s playful, amiable, and fun, just like the classic comic strip itself.
Dates and Times: On display nightly from 5 p.m. until midnight through January 1.
A Molar Christmas
8252 West Camino De Oro, Peoria
Every year, local dentist and Peoria resident transforms his four-bedroom home into his own personal Christmastown featuring around 70,000 individual lights, four leaping arches, a 25-foot-tall tree, and a video screen in an upstairs window. A low-power FM transmitter broadcasts a mix of 18 different holiday songs that are synched up with the animated light display. You may even spot the dentist handing out candy canes to visitors.
Dates and Times: Operates nightly, 5 to 10 p.m., from December 3 to December 31.
South Park House
7734 North 41st Avenue, Phoenix
This Southpark themed house is hard to miss. Emilio Palacio’s house on West Valley features 100 different characters from the Comedy Central show. Music plays songs from the album Mr. Hankey’s Christmas classics.
Dates and Times: On display nightly from December 1 through January 1 starting at dusk
Sirakis Residence
6060 West Charter Oak Road, Glendale
The Sirakis family spend hours preparing for the holiday season creating hand painted and cartoonish wooden cutouts of various fictional characters.
This year’s version of the display features more than 18,000 lights, includes a variety of Disney and Pixar characters, ranging from the emotions from of Inside Out, a few Mickey Mouses playing Santa Claus, and characters from Moana and Wreck-It Ralph.
Dates and Times: Monday through Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m.; Friday through Sunday, 5 to 11 p.m. from December 16 until January 1.
The Coach House
7011 East Indian School Road, Scottsdale
Every year, Coach House gets decorated with everything from colored bulbs, wrapping paper, r ornaments, and shiny tinsel. It’s been an annual tradition of the Bower family, which owns the rustic-looking landmark, for more than 30 years and includes 12,500 individual lights, 25 strands of garland, 100 square feet of wrapping paper, 50 candy canes, and more than 200 ornaments.
Dates and Times: Daily through February 1, 6 a.m. to 2 a.m. Admission is free but only those of legal drinking age can enter the bar.
Santa Train
541 East Mountain Sky Avenue, Ahwatukee
At this light display, Santa operates a train and rides around an 80 foot train track giving candy to visitors.
It’s the centerpiece of the couple’s annual Christmas display in the Valley for going on 30 years now and also includes an illuminated volcano, a rooftop display with Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer trying to hoist Santa up to the chimney using a rope and pulley, a Ferris wheel with stuffed animals as passengers, a candy cane carousel, and a life-sized interactive Saint Nicholas that sings and dances.
Dates and Times: Operates nightly until 11 p.m., through January 1.
Loop of Lights
Pecan Creek Drive and Carolina Avenue, San Tan Valley
More than 80 residents in the San Tan Valley subdivision decorate their homes, fire trucks, and even horse-drawn carriages.
Dates and Times: 6 to 9 p.m. nightly, from December 1 until December 25
Benson Family’s Christmas Spectacular
8535 South Stanley Place, Tempe
Stanley and Andrea Benson in South Tempe decorate their home with over 100,000 lights. Everywhere that can hold a light, has one on it.
Things are made even more lively by an enormous animated Santa measuring 30 feet tall that stands over the scene as various elves deliver gifts, decorate trees, and frolic on a teeter-totter. An actual Kris Kringle visits on weekends and passes out candy and cocoa to kids of all ages.
Dates and Times: On display nightly, 5 to 11 p.m., through January 1
Natal Circle
663 West Natal Circle, Mesa
More than a dozen houses situated around this Mesa cul-de-sac are decorated with this intricate display. It’s been a holiday tradition that the residents of West Natal Circle gleefully participate in, and each home offers its own lighting scheme and particular theme. For instance, one yard features Christmas at Bikini Bottom with Spongebob SquarePants characters, while another boasts a hallowed religious theme complete with cutouts depicting the birth of Jesus.
Dozens of inflatables are also viewable, including one humorous blow-up with Santa and his sleigh getting busted by a cop.
Dates and Times: Running nightly, 5 to 11 p.m., through January 1
Mesa Christmas
1610 East Hermosa Vista Drive, Mesa
The home of Dr. David Kipp is an enormous display of bright lights and vibrant colors dance about during synchronized displays set to Christmas carols and holiday songs. The shows are quite fanciful and feature a gigantic screen broadcasting pixel-style videos.
Dates and Times: Nightly from 6 to 10 p.m. through January 1.
Christmas in Scottsdale
8543 East Avalon Drive, Scottsdale
Free hot chocolate and candy canes welcome guest to John Slade and Caroline Leon to their Scottsdale home. Which features more than 50,000 LED lights, a 25-foot-tall tree, and a singing snowman and Santa Claus — is a collaborative effort between the two.
He programs the hour-long sequence of swirling, flickering and flashing lights that’s set to a series of amusing holiday parody songs that she picks out and edits.
Dates and Times: Sunday through Thursday, 6 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 6 to 11 p.m., through January 3.
Christmas Forever
10526 North 119th Street, Scottsdale
Brothers created a rock ‘n’ roll light display complete with lights and music.
Dates and Times: Operates from 7 to 9 p.m. on weeknights, and 7 to 10 p.m. on weekends through New Year’s Eve. (Note: The display is located within a housing community. Visitors are asked to press “031” to enter through the main gate.)
Nightmare Town
1001 East El Freda Road, Tempe
Halloween meets Christmas with this The Nightmare Before Christmas light display. As a matter of fact, the entire front of the house resembles an enormous beast with second story windows that look like eyes and the porch resembling a toothy maw. It’s both frightening and festive, just like the film that inspired it.
Dates and Times: Operating nightly from sunset to 10 p.m. through December 31.
Richins Residence
396 West Liberty Lane, Gilbert
The annual light display created by Gilbert resident Chad Richins is quite massive. So much so that it not only encompasses his own two-story home but also four neighboring houses. Richins has over a decade of light decorating experience.
Dates and Times: Operated nightly from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., through December 31.
Phoenix Winter Wonderland
4237 West State Avenue, Phoenix
Both inside and outside this home are decorated for Christmas. In total, Chuchla spends 450 man-hours assembling everything and drops more than $1,000 on the electricity bill and just as much on new ornaments every year. The Grinch he is not.
Dates and Times: Open every night in December, 6 to 10 p.m.
Chris Birkett’s Winter Wonderland
8414 East Valley Vista Drive, Scottsdale
A winter in Wonderland experience in North Scottsdale. Chris Birkett’s display has been a popular destination during the holiday season that’s viewed by countless Valley residents every holiday season for more than a decade. And this year, it’ll be getting even more famous when it’s featured on an upcoming episode of The Great Christmas Light Fight later this month.
Dates and Times: Nightly, 6 to 10 p.m., from December 6 through December 31.
Taylor Residence
3611 East Kachina Drive, Phoenix
This home features over 100 different wooden cut-outs of various Disney and other kid-friendly characters, there are a flock of emojis on the roof, a 20-foot-tall castle inspired by Frozen, dozens of illuminated statues, bubble and snow machines, and hundreds of thousands of lights.
Dates and Times: Nightly from 5 to 10 p.m., through December 31.
Tasker Residence
8211 South 63rd Avenue, Laveen
This home has over 300,000 lights covering their home. It’s so big that you can drive a car through it, as the display is arranged along the Taskers’ circular driveway.
Dates and Times: Monday to Thursday, 5 to 11 p.m., and Friday to Sunday, 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., through January 2
Christmas on Comstock
3642 East Comstock Drive, Gilbert
This entire neighborhood is decorated with more than 110,000 lights. Crowds line up to see this neighborhood display. It’s so intricate that on a 2015 episode of The Great Christmas Light Fight, the ABC reality show that determines some of the best holiday displays in America. Christmas on Comstock beat out similar neighborhood displays in Florida and Hawaii with its grandeur and spectacle, earning a $50,000 prize and a trophy for its participants, as well as some national recognition.
Dates and Times: 6 to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 6 to 10:30 p.m. on weekends from December 1 until December 30.
