Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand Seattle
For 32 years, architects have teamed with the Sheraton's chefs to build a village of six-foot gingerbread structures in the downtown hotel, each season built around…
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Holiday
Events for December 18, 2026
All Day
Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship Festival
Since 1949, a decorated Christmas Ship has sailed around Puget Sound and Lake Washington with a live choir on board, stopping off waterfront parks for 20-minute…
The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp
For its 30th season, the Northwest's big Christmas light festival at Warm Beach Camp, north of Marysville near Stanwood, becomes mainly a walking event. Guests stroll…
$16 – $35
Ongoing
WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo
Woodland Park Zoo's winter light festival swaps strings of bulbs for large illuminated lanterns shaped like animals and habitats, set along the zoo's paths after dark.…
Seattle Christmas Market
Seattle Center's South Fountain Lawn turns into a European-style Christmas village for five weeks, with wooden stalls from local and European vendors, a carousel, a walk-through…
$6.99 – $21.99
ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo
The Oregon Zoo trades daytime animal-watching for a nighttime walk through grounds wrapped in light displays, from the main paths to the hillside trees. Gates open…
$13 – $35
Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Tacoma's long-running holiday light show takes over Point Defiance Zoo after dark, with light displays strung along the zoo's paths above Commencement Bay. It's a walking…
Christmas Festival of Lights at The Grotto
The Grotto's wooded sanctuary in Northeast Portland turns into a quarter-mile walk of lights each evening from November 27 to December 30. The music is the…
$8.95 – $19.95
Winter Wonderland at Portland International Raceway
A drive-through light show on the racetrack at Portland International Raceway, and the single largest fundraiser for the Sunshine Division's hunger-relief work. Tickets are priced per…
$38 – $55
Snowflake Lane at The Bellevue Collection
Every night at 7 p.m. from the day after Thanksgiving through Christmas Eve, Bellevue Way between NE 4th and NE 8th turns into a short holiday…
Free
Garden d’Lights
Bellevue Botanical Garden's holiday display shapes its lights into the garden itself: glowing flowers, plants and small critters tucked into the beds along the paths, with…
$5 – $10
Redmond Lights
Redmond's winter festival is more art show than Christmas display: a month of illuminated installations by local and regional artists in Downtown Park and Overlake's Esterra…
Free
Peacock Lane Holiday Lights
One block of Tudor-style houses in Southeast Portland has gone all-out for the holidays for generations, and the whole city still turns up to walk it.…
Free
Great Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition
For two hours on a Friday night, caroling groups fan out across a ten-block radius of downtown and sing in front of shops, restaurants and hotels,…
Free
Christmas Ships Parade
Volunteer skippers have strung their boats with lights and cruised the rivers every December for about seven decades, and the fleets sail most nights from December…
Free