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Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand Seattle

Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave, 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…

Ongoing

WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo 5500 Phinney Ave N, Seattle

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.…

ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo

Oregon Zoo 4001 SW Canyon Rd, Portland

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

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma

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 (National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother) 8840 NE Skidmore St, Portland

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

Portland International Raceway 1940 N Victory Blvd, Portland

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

Garden d’Lights

Bellevue Botanical Garden 12001 Main St, Bellevue

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 Downtown Park (also Esterra Park) 16101 NE 85th St, Redmond

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

Peacock Lane (between SE Belmont & SE Stark) SE Peacock Ln, Portland

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