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South Sound Neighborhood Light Displays!

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This list is updated for 2020 (sort of); as we have not verified all the houses and neighborhoods.

I have indicated after or before each listing whether we have confirmed them. There are also links to other sites with detailed neighborhood maps at the bottom of this post. 

In cases where we haven’t verified lights for this year, I’d invite you to go with a spirit of adventure! And I’d LOVE for you to send an email or leave a comment if you can confirm that a spot is off or on. Also, please keep in mind that most of these are private homes, so please be kind and don’t intrude on folks’ privacy.

 

Good Places to See Christmas Lights Near Puyallup, Bonney Lake, Tacoma, Federal Way, Olympia, South King County and Pierce County

South King County
  • Lake Wilderness Neighborhood off Witte Road in Maple Valley.  Sue says the neighborhood goes all out, and they collect food donations. Not verified by SFM.
This one has a schedule on Fb! Verified via fb
The Very Merry Christmas House
Enjoy this “Classic ” display with hand made props and over 50k lights synchronized to holiday music.
FREE drive by show OR
If your out of your vehicles wear a mask and social distance.
Crest Air Park 30211 176th ave se
Follow signs off of Covington/Sawyer rd and 179th pl.
OPEN NOW
Shows daily, dusk until 11:30pm through Jan 2nd.
Can food Donations to benefit:
The Black Diamond Senior Center/Food Bank
  • ViewPointe at Redondo in Federal Way – This neighborhood, at the cross streets of 1st Avenue S and S 300th Pl in, goes all out every year. Drive through or park your car and take a walk. The neighbors request that you bring canned food. Homes are lit from 6:00pm-10:00pm. I have not verified this for 2020, but it has been an annual event. If you find out whether they are off or on, I’d love an update!
  • Here is a map put together by the City of Auburn for 2020. All included sites were submitted residents this year!

East Pierce/ Bonney Lake

  •  Sky Island in Bonney Lake  Huge displays set to music and neighbors going all in to outdo each other!  Go up 410 and turn right at the 2nd light by the Chevron and the Wendy’s. Readers recommend turning right on 181st Ave E or left on 95th and then right on 181st for the best cul de sac. Know that the area is very busy on the weekends. I am considering this verified based on many, many posts on Fb, but I haven’t been personally this year yet.
  • Tehaleh  Several readers recommended the Tehaleh community. I haven’t checked it out personally. Let me know if you do.

Puyallup

None of these have been verified for 2020. If you can confirm whether they’re on or off, leave a comment and let us know!

  •  Country Hollow/Siliver Creek area off 176th/Meridian/Gem Heights is really good. This one is worth driving through a couple of times throughout December! Jenna says they’ve also found some good homes off Sunrise Blvd E.
  • Crystal Ridge off Shaw Road recommended by Liz and several others  There is a particularly impressive display in the first neighborhood to your left, a few houses in. It’s a massive collection set to music. You can find it by following the crowd!

Orting

  • Nunnally Reader Stefanie says that her brother in law’s home on Nunnally is covered with lights! They even have their own radio station timed to music.Corner of Nunnally and Anderson in the Village Green neighborhood. Runs nightly 5-10 and 5-11 on the weekends Verified! 
  • Hidden Lakes Reader Heather recommends Cardinal Street in the Hidden Lakes neighborhood. Not Verified for 2020 yet.

Tacoma

  • Fircrest is working on putting out a lights map. Until then, a drive around Fircrest is a fun idea. We hear lots of houses have put on a great effort this year.
  • N. Cheyenne has been reader recommended. I haven’t verified.
  • The Fawcett neighborhood is typically reader recommended. I haven’t verified it.
  • Tacoma Light Show Network (the folks who brought you the candy chutes at Halloween) has a great effort going. 
  • 253 Books has pics. of some great light displays with addresses.

Gig Harbor

  • Wildwood Estates – The SFM crew drives through Wildwood Estates off 40th. It’s more a quantity than a quality issue-nothing massive but nearly every house has something. If you know of others, let us know! We would love to have other contributions for this area-send ’em in or leave a comment!

Olympia

For more neighborhood listings and a Google Map, try PacNWChristmasLights.

Professional Lights Displays

Zoolights! Open this year, but you need timed entry tickets purchased in advance.

Meeker Mansion has a drive thru display this year on Fridays and Saturdays in December.

Fantasy Lights at Spanaway Lake is going on. 

There is a new event at the fairgrounds in Puyallup. This one sold out almost immediately, but they have released a few more tickets, so like their social channels and subscribe to their emails, and you might get lucky. Here is the official fb page.

If you know of other great neighborhood light displays, please do leave a comment! Thanks to everyone for your help with this post.

Blue house photo courtesy and property of CoreyAnn of AdventureBee

Comments

  1. Another one in Orting is on Cardinal St in Hidden Lakes neighborhood. They connect the lights to the music, it’s beautiful and fun. And yes the house on Riddell Ave decorates not only the front of the house, but also fun to see from the back on the main road. That house is also AMAZING to check out on Halloween. I’ve never seen such an awesomely decorated house anywhere

  3. I’m not that familiar with the streets in Orting, where is Cardinal St? I found the other two houses on the map and would love to add that one to my list to see when I go down there.
    Thanks!!

  4. Yelm has some nice dispkays, they are pretty spread out but some neighborhoods down Tahoma Blvd and Longmire are nice, plus Barrybridges Rd.

  6. We went to the neighborhood in Redondo tonight and it was really nice. The way it’s written above looked like 30th to me, but it is in fact 300th.

  7. Hey, Tami,
    Sort of in the middle? It’s across from Whitley/Whitney Estates with the big white sign, and it has a sign. I think there are actually two entrances. None of the houses are Amazing, but almost every house has something, and they’re close together, so it’s just kind of neat. I’m totally looking for other Gig Harbor area suggestions. If you find more, let me know!

  8. I’m not sure either, Tonya. I think it’s part of one of the developments.
    This is via Mapquest. hth!
    Turn right onto Calistoga St W.

    Calistoga St W is just past Leber St NE
    Wawa Teriyaki is on the corner
    If you are on S Washington Ave and reach Train St SW you’ve gone a little too far

    Zoom to this StepAvoid this Step
    0.8 mi
    5. Calistoga St W becomes Orting Kapowsin Hwy E.

    0.3 mi
    6. Turn left onto Cardinal St.

    Cardinal St is just past 188th St E
    If you reach Robin St you’ve gone about 0.1 miles too far

    0.07 mi
    7. [200-299] CARDINAL ST SW.

    Your destination is just past Eagle Ave
    If you reach Phoenix Ave you’ve gone a little too far

  10. Just so you know it’s just the one house on cardinal st in orting that has lights so it may not be worth the drive out there if you don’t live in the area.

  13. That blue lighted house you featured is in Lakeland Hills in south Auburn. He doesn’t do it every year, but it is a sight to behold when he does. There’s also a food bank collection bin there. The hill is a fun place to drive around during Christmas time.

  15. Thanks, Courtney! A bit out of my, “Territory,” here, but I’ve thought about checking it out with my family. It looks really neat!

  16. Are all of these up to date? I live in Federal Way and am always looking for places to see awesome lights.

  17. Hey, Julia,
    They are a combination of suggestions from last year and this year. So far, I haven’t had anyone tell me that any aren’t good ones, but I haven’t driven by them each myself, so I can’t promise.

  20. My husband and I just asked each other the question, if there were any lists out of Christmas lights locations for neighborhoods. I appreciate you pulling this together for us all. Thank you very much for answering our question. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.????????????

  22. There is a house in Lakewood on glen wood Ave. SW that is totally decked out and has music going along with the lights. You can listen on the radio from the warmth of your car ????

  23. We love Snowflake Lane it is definitely worth the trip we have gone ever year for 3 yrs it’s our tradition! So fun, my kids love getting pictures with the characters and the princesses and dancing with them! They always have an amazing energetic cast!

  25. We drove by a few in the marine hills area of Federal Way and Dash Point…and it was all pretty disapointing! 🙁

  27. So, we tried to go to the Country Hollow/Siliver Creek area off 176th/Meridian/Gem Heights, and most of it was gated and we couldn’t find an area that looked like we would want to keep coming back to it… Is there a specific address or trick to finding these lights?

  28. Hey, Erin,
    That one is a reader tip, and I don’t know any more about it. If anyone does, hopefully, they’ll chime in!
    I do recommend the house in Crystal Ridge and the neighborhood in Bonney Lake we mentioned above, if you’re willing to make that trek. If you want to go the other way, the Ehlers family in Tacoma has personally invited SFM readers to come have a look at their place! Have fun!

  31. Sadly the Lights at Ken Lake (in Olympia) are not lit this year. Their website says they will be back next year.

  33. Thank you for all the suggestions… I have driven around looking for lighting and am rather disappointed with the displays. It is sad that there are no sponsorships for lighting competitions here.
    I dislike saying “where I came from” but there was
    a competition sponsored by the power company and newspaper… resulting in a tour for each area published in the paper and some spectacular displays.

  34. Tip for next year – if you combine a free entry night at Bellevue botanical garden “garden D’lights” display with snowflake lane it is worth the drive up there! They are minutes apart and you can see all the botanical garden displays in 30-45 min (they have a scavenger hunt to find various animals in lights as you walk) so you can fit this in before or after the snowflake lane 20 min show – we did both last Monday – Bellevue botanical garden is free entry Mon-Thu for the first two weeks it’s open.
    Also, just to verify, the Twin Lakes federal way homes on 325th are definitely up as usual this year!

  36. The light display off of 1st near Redondo is still going on! While not all of the houses are participating the ones that are, are really cool! And yes, they are accepting a food donation. Heads up that most cars drive through without their lights on so be careful!

    And yes, Snowflake Lane is a MUST! The trek is worth it; get there early for easier parking.

  38. Everything on the list from Pacific NW Christmas Lights has been physically confirmed by us or by other displayers in the region weve had direct contact with.

  43. Yes! We went there too! Very cool and one house was collecting cash donations for homeless and also canned goods.

  44. The Twin Lakes Home is all setup but we went by at 7:30 tonight and they hadn’t turned them on yet… so maybe just a weekend thing?? Or a later time?? But it does look like they are set up!

  46. Great house in Federal Way twin lakes area with 70,000+ lights and so much more. If you know where treasure island park is in twin lakes, just drive by there and you will not miss the house.

  47. The display off Shaw Road and Crystal Ridge Drive is going this year, way impressive, set to a radio channel of KISW, I think — saw it Christmas Eve about 8pm during the snow, very nicely done. Left at the light, going uphill on Shaw Rd, and left again off Crystal Ridge Dr, but I don’t know the name of the cul-de-sac.