• WildLanterns at Woodland Park Zoo

    Woodland Park Zoo 5500 Phinney Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    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.…

  • Gingerbread Village at the Sheraton Grand Seattle

    Sheraton Grand Seattle 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

    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…

  • Seattle Christmas Market

    Seattle Center (South Fountain Lawn & Fisher Pavilion) 305 Harrison St, Seattle, WA, United States

    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

    Oregon Zoo 4001 SW Canyon Rd, Portland, OR, United States

    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
  • Hillsboro Holly Days Celebration

    Hillsboro Civic Center Plaza and Historic Downtown 150 E Main St, Hillsboro, OR, United States

    Downtown Hillsboro kicks off the season a week before Thanksgiving with an afternoon that ends in a tree lighting on the Civic Center Plaza at 6…

    Free
  • The Lights of Christmas at Warm Beach Camp

    Warm Beach Camp & Conference Center 20800 Marine Dr, Stanwood, WA, United States

    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
  • Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship Festival

    Pier 55, Seattle Waterfront (plus Lake Union, Kirkland, Lake Washington, Edmonds, Everett and Des Moines departures) 1101 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA, United States

    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…

  • Holiday Weekends at Portland Japanese Garden

    Portland Japanese Garden 611 SW Kingston Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    For three weekends starting the day after Thanksgiving, the Japanese Garden in Washington Park dresses for the season with traditional winter decorations. Visitors can shop Japanese…

    $22.50
  • Tree Lighting Celebration at Westlake Park

    Westlake Park 401 Pine St, Seattle, WA, United States

    Downtown's holiday season officially starts the day after Thanksgiving, back in a renovated Westlake Park after last year's move to Westlake Center during construction. From 11…

    Free
  • Vancouver Rotary Community Tree Lighting

    Esther Short Park and Vancouver Waterfront 605 Esther St, Vancouver, WA, United States

    Santa arrives in Vancouver by river: he sails down the Columbia with an escort from the Christmas Ships, steps ashore at the waterfront's Terminal 1, then…

    Free
  • Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

    Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium 5400 N Pearl St, Tacoma, WA, United States

    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, OR, United States

    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