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Best Holiday Light Displays in Dallas-Fort Worth

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verything's bigger and brighter in Texas when it outside. The Christmas in the Square Light Show is open
comes to Christmas lights. Dallas-Fort Worth has nightly during the festival.
Ea number of beautiful holiday displays so grab a
peppermint latte or some hot cocoa for the kids, load up the
SUV and enjoy the holiday events and lighting displays. Fort Worth: Sundance Square Parade of Lights Held each
Some displays offer refreshments, rides, and visits with year in downtown Fort Worth, the Sundance Square Parade
Santa, while others go all out, even offering carriage rides. of Lights features more than 100 illuminated entries, cowboy
Santas, marching bands, and
antique cars. Street seats
Addison: Vitruvian are available for a fee, but
Park Lights Walk and there are also plenty of free
wind through the 12-acre viewing areas available.
park in Addison, where
millions of sparkling LED
lights are wrapped around The parade is usually held
more than 200 glittering just before Thanksgiving. It
trees to create this magical starts at the intersection of
holiday wonderland. Belknap and Throckmorton
The season usually begins streets and proceeds east
along Belknap, turns south on
the day after Thanksgiving Commerce and goes to Ninth
and the lights are on Street. At Ninth Street the
through New Year's Day. parade turns west, proceeds
Enjoy the lights and a past the Convention Center
performance by the Jordan to Houston Street, and then
Kahn Orchestra, gourmet turns north on Houston
food trucks, sweet treats, Street to Weatherford Street.
free photos with Santa, classic holiday characters and an
elf balloon artist. Donations will be accepted benefitting
Metrocrest Services. The calendar of events includes Fort Worth: Gift of Lights Gift of Lights at Texas Motor
performances by the Jordan Kahn Orchestra and the Dallas Speedway features more than a million lights and 100
String Quartet. The parking fee is $10 and is cash only. displays. Tickets cost $25 per carload and are available at
the entrance or online. You only need one ticket per car.
Dallas: Highland Park: It's obvious that many of the
residents in Highland Park hire professionals to do their Grand Prairie: Prairie Lights Prairie Lights is a two-mile
decorating, and that makes it one of the best neighborhoods stretch of decorations and festive fun featuring more than 4
for viewing holiday lights in Dallas. The lights are available million lights, hundreds of displays, a Holiday Magic light
from November 29, 2018, through the holidays. Brazos show, walk-through lighted displays, pictures with Santa,
Carriages offer rides through the lights. seasonal food, and family fun. About halfway through the
drive, you'll find Santa, carnival rides (rides are included
with the cost of admission), snacks, and souvenirs. Get
Dallas: Kessler Park :Kessler Park is a wonderful out of your car at Holiday Village and take a stroll through
neighborhood to view holiday lights in the fabulous Oak the trees that will be lit up with tens of thousands of lights
Cliff neighborhood. along with a brand-new Gumdrop Alley. The event opens
Thanksgiving night and continues through late December.
Frisco: Christmas in the Square Christmas in the
Square is a light show featuring more than 175,000 lights Plano: Deerfield Take a drive through this festively
choreographed to holiday music. Visitors can drive, stroll, illuminated neighborhood. You can also make a reservation
or ride in a horse-drawn carriage ride past the shops, for a carriage ride, which begins in the Legacy Church
restaurants, and amazing holiday display around the square. parking lot at Legacy and Preston Meadow. Deerfield is
The same snow machines used by Disney create a winter located in Northwest Plano between Preston and Coit roads.
wonderland on the sidewalks of Frisco Square. There are Enter from Legacy on Colonnade and Archgate, noting one-
"snow flurries" every 15 minutes on Fridays and Saturdays way and restricted turn signs along Old Pond Drive and
throughout Christmas in the Square—even if it's 75 degrees Hallmark Drive.•

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