The BEST Christmas Lights Near The Fox Cities: Awesome Displays for 2023!

There is nothing quite like heading out for a tour of holiday light displays. Northeast Wisconsin is home to some of the best Christmas lights in Wisconsin! Whether you are looking for Christmas lights to music, unique displays or lots of eye candy, our handy guide will help you find the best Christmas lights near you. Grab the popcorn, fill the thermos with hot chocolate, and enjoy this free fun family tradition.

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Editor’s Note: This article will be updated weekly.

How We Make This List

This list of where to see lights is crowd-sourced from reader comments. We need your help!

  • We ask on Facebook for recommendations, if someone tells us there is a great display at X address, we will include it. We can’t drive around to every location to verify a light display, and what some people think is worth-the-drive display, others might not want to bother with, so please use our list with that in mind. We try to include details and pictures to help as well!
  • If you do find something we should add to our list email us at govalleykids@gmail.com. Want to share an update with us or add your home? Submit here.
  • Generally, lights start after Thanksgiving. 
  • We will be updating the list all month long. (Printable list coming early December).

Tips for looking for Christmas Lights

  • Bring your light viewing to the next level! Check out these 3D glasses here.
  • Pack a bag of non-perishable foods in your trunk to donate to collections at shows.
  • Wear your holiday jammies. Bring a blanket to get extra cozy.
  • Pack fun snacks. We like popcorn, hot chocolate with marshmallows, candy canes, and cookies!
  • Print out a scavenger hunt and use clipboards with a book light or flashlight. 
  • Visit on weeknights to avoid long waits at music light shows.
  • Be respectful of neighbors, and don’t block driveways. Avoid turning around in driveways.

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2023 Christmas Lights Near Me – Map

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Downtown Appleton Houdini Plaza Christmas Lights
Houdini Plaza, Downtown Appleton

North Appleton & Grand Chute Area

  • W4036 Rock Road (Town of Center)
    • Light display with music on exterior speaker
  • 711 East Tallgrass Dr, Appleton
  • 3501 N. Fiesta Dr, Appleton

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  • 2421 W. Seneca Dr., Appleton
  • 2139 W. Capitol Drive, Appleton
  • Touchmark on West Prospect, 2601 Touchmark Dr, Appleton
    • Drive-through light show including concessions with Christmas treats on Fridays from 5 pm – 8 pm. Lights are on every evening until 8 pm.
  • 4711 Prairie Song Road, Appleton
  • 1849 Sunrise Ln, Appleton
  • W4635 Glenn St, Appleton (Mackville area)
    • Almost 50,000 lights covering a large country property.
1509 East Cass Street, Appleton

Appleton & Downtown Appleton

  • West Pershing Lights, 1628 W Pershing St, Appleton
    • November 17, 2023 through January 7, 2024
    • 7,644 LED lights synchronized to music
  • College Avenue, Downtown Appleton (Houdini Plaza, Iconic Angels) 
  • 1509 East Cass Street, Appleton
  • ThedaCare Regional Medical Center (formally Appleton Medical Center), 1818 N. Meade Street, Appleton
    • Tons of lights at the hospital!
  • Float Light, 609 West College Avenue, Downtown Appleton
    • Started in 2021 and grows every year with plans to expand in coming years to cover their whole building! Access the show from their parking lot and feel free to use the parking spaces as available. It’s easiest to use the alley from the west side to get there.
    • Hours: Starts daily at dusk
    • Radio Station: 87.9 FM
  • 1522 North Oneida Street, Appleton
    • A pretty cool display. They have a lot of blow molds out.
  • 1809 W. Grant St, Appleton
  • 1335 West Harris Street, Appleton
  • Smith Family Light Display, 3128 N Morrison Street

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  • 1801 W. Rogers Ave, Appleton
  • 2415 Southwood Drive, Appleton
  • 720 North Meade Street, Appleton
  • 3017 E Rail Rd, Appleton
    • For Star Wars fans
Fox Cities Festival of Lights
Fox Cities Festival of Lights, Darboy Community Park

Appleton (Darboy area)

  • Fox Cities Festival of Lights, Darboy Community Park, N9334 Noe Rd, Appleton
    • Free Community walk-through display with iconic Fox Cities displays. Parking will be on the park’s East side and at Sunrise Elementary School. The small parking lot beside the park shelter is for volunteers and handicapped parking only!
    • You are encouraged to dress warm as this is a walking event on a roughly half mile route through the park. 
    • Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays: November 24-26, December 1-3, 8-10, 15-17, 22-25, 29-31, 2023
    • Hours: 5-9 pm
  • N9348 Mulholland Ln, Appleton (music)
    • Ends January 1, 2024: 4 – 9 pm
    • Radio Station: 96.5 FM
    • This year’s show features 18,000-pixel lights and a 25-tall mega tree. Donations can be dropped in the red mailbox by the driveway and will be split between Wild and Free Animal Rescue in Wrightstown and Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
  • N9599 Clover Ridge Tr. Appleton
    • On the corner of Colin St. and Clover Ridge Tr. Lights with music are visible from Colin St. Tune to 96.5 FM. Shows are nightly from 5 to 9:30 pm. 8 songs are played and runs for about 30 minutes. Standard lights are visible from Clover Ridge Trail.
  • N172 Crooked Pine Court, Appleton (music)
    • Hours: Sunday-Thursday: 5-9:30 pm and Friday-Saturday: 5-10:30 pm
    • Tune to 87.9 FM
    • 25,000 plus lights are on display with over 18K dancing pixel lights
    • Donations are being accepted for the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
  • Ben’s Wish, N255 Rogers Lane, Appleton
    • Radio Station: 89.5 FM
Crooked Pine Darboy Christmas Lights
N172 Crooked Pine Court, Appleton
Clover Ridge Trail Appleton Christmas Lights
N9599 Clover Ridge Tr., Appleton
Mulholland Ln, Appleton Christmas Lights
N9348 Mulholland Ln, Appleton

Combined Locks

  • 511 Janssen Street, Combined Locks
    • The display is visible during the day and night! Come take family pictures on the Santa bench in front of the North Pole. Donation box to help needy local families.

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  • 207 Jean St., Combined Locks (music with speaker)
    • Music with speakers
    • Sunday – Thursday: dusk – 10 pm, Friday – Saturday: dusk – 11 pm
  • 521 Susan St, Combined Locks (music)
    • 5 – 8 pm
    • Tune to 88.3 FM

Note: Christmas on Cornrow will not be returning in 2023.

Janssen Street, Combined Locks

Kaukauna

  • Annual Atwater Christmas Light Show, 456 Crestview Road, Kaukauna (music)
    • Runs until December 31, 2023
    • 70,000 lights dancing to music on 96.5 FM radio
    • Taking donations this year for Holy Spirit Catholic School.
  • N2136 Sleepy Hollow Drive, Kaukauna
  • Kaukauna Utilities Library of Lights, Kaukauna Public Library, 207 Thilmany Road, Kaukauna
    • Open daily from dusk until 9 pm
    • If you find a candy cane in the garden, it’s yours to eat!

Wrightstown

  • 312 Butterfield Ct, Wrightstown
    • The show runs 4:45 to 10 pm through New Year’s
    • Lights to music tune to 88.7 FM

Freedom

  • W3350 Equestrian Trail, Freedom

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  • N4337 Bell Court, Freedom
    • Music
  • N4498 County Road E, Freedom

Black Creek

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  • 308 N Beech St., Black Creek
    • Gorgeous blue and white LED lights light up N Beech St. Help yourself to a candy candy treat before you leave! This year they will light up 305 N Beech St in honor of a dear family member who fought breast cancer and is undergoing a stem-cell transplant for MDS Cancer.

Seymour

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  • 706 N Main St, Seymour (music)
    • Hours: Sunday – Thursday:  6 – 10 pm
      • Friday and Saturday: 6 – 11 pm 
    • We started our lightshow to help people in need by first using our own lights then we decided to take in unwanted Christmas items. We fixed them and gave them a loving home here in our lightshow. That is how The land of misfits Christmas Lightshow was born!
    • All proceeds go to Salvation Army in Black Creek. 
    • Santa will have appearances every Saturday 6 – 7:30 pm (Weather permitting)
    • Kids can write to Santa and put a letter in Santa’s mailbox. 
Homewood Ct., Little Chute

Little Chute 

  • 1500 Hoover Ave, Little Chute
  • 1431 Hoover Ave, Little Chute
  • 115 Homewood Ct., Little Chute
  • Paradise Drive, Little Chute

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  • Pierce St, Little Chute
  • 155 W Greenfield Drive
115 S. Louise St., Kimberly
115 S. Louise St., Kimberly

Kimberly

  • Memorial Park Light Display, 218 E. Kimberly Avenue, Kimberly
    • Kicks off with the annual event Christmas at the Pond on Sunday, December 3, 2023
    • Memorial Park will be lit every night at dusk for December. Enjoy a walk around the pond for a festive display!
  • 115 S. Louise St., Kimberly (near Kimberly Public Library)
    • Good old fashion yard of lights! Decorations for all ages, come and reminisce about your childhood and create new memories with your family this holiday season. You might remember their awesome Halloween display!
    • This year they are collecting donations to make We Care Bags for people affected by cancer in our community. Knowing it exits isn’t enough, friends don’t let friends fight cancer alone.
    • Hours: 4:30-10 pm (weather permitting)
  • 1215 W 4th St, Kimberly (music)
    • Music with synchronized lights. Station 94.9 FM

Greenleaf

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  • 6844 Shanty Rd, Greenleaf (music)
    • Light show is synched to music and we have an FM transmitter so you can listen along in your vehicle. This year we are raising money for a local charity, OneWrightstown. 
    • Starts Thanksgiving night at 5 pm and will run until 10 pm weeknights and 5 pm until 11 pm on weekends.
N1798 Baileys Harbor Road, Greenville

Greenville

  • A Very Bright Ryan Family Christmas, W7277 Sunfield Drive, Greenville
  • W7191 Sunfield Drive, Greenville (music)
  • W6780 Marcy Ct, Greenville (music)
  • Savannah Dr., Greenville
    • 12 houses decorated down the street
Christmas Lights in Hortonville
Main Street Lights, Hortonville

Hortonville

  • Main Street Lights, 258 E Main St, Hortonville (music)
    • Music on 90.7 FM. Check Facebook for dates, times, and updates. Lots of kid-centric songs. This display can be viewed across the road at Dairy Queen and is the perfect spot for an ice cream treat! If you have a handheld radio, you can get a better view from the outside of your car. There will be different playlists on Fridays and Saturdays to give variety to those who come oftent!
    • Starts: November 25, 2022
    • Hours: Sunday – Thursday: 5 – 10 pm, Friday – Saturday: 5 – 11 pm
    • Radio Station: 90.7 FM
  • W7340 Earl Lane, Hortonville

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  • 121 E Main St, Hortonville
  • 1690 County Road T, Hortonville
Neenah Christmas Lights
1301 Nature Trail Drive, Neenah

Neenah / Menasha / Fox Crossing

  • 218 Carriage Dr, Neenah
    • Starts December 1, 2023
    • 2500+ LED lights on various props all animated to alternative Christmas music. Shows run on top and bottom of each hour from 7-10 pm Fridays and Saturdays and everyday from Christmas Eve until New Years.
  • 1301 Nature Trail Drive, Neenah
    • Lightshow Tree from 4:30 – 9:30 pm
  • 6217 Woodenshoe Rd, Neenah
    • Over 10,000 lights, blow ups, color and white light displays

Oshkosh

  • Oshkosh Celebration of Lights, EAA Grounds, Oshkosh (temporary location for 2023) (music)
  • Brody’s Christmas Lights for Charity, 1874 Westbreeze Dr., Oshkosh (music)
    • Now through January 1, 2024
    • Hours: Sunday – Thursday: 5 to 9 pm, Friday – Saturday: 5 – 10 pm
    • Radio Station: 88.3 FM
    • Donations: Oshkosh Area United Way dropoff location for Keep Kids Warm Glove Drive. They will also be accepting personal hygiene and household cleaning items to help stock the LIVE UNITED Community Vault.
  • Christmas SpecStackular, 335 Sunnybrook Drive, Oshkosh (music)
    • Come enjoy our Christmas Light display feat. over 10,000 LED lights synchronized to music! The show runs for approximately 16 minutes on a continuous loop from 4 – 10 pm throughout December. Tune to 88.5 FM to hear the music. Spreading Christmas joy since 2009!
  • 911 Anchorage Court, Oshkosh
    • Animated display with music on 88.7 FM
    • Hours: 4:30 – 10 pm
  • Kramerica Park, 1160 Laager Ln, Oshkosh (music)
    • Radio Station 89.7 FM
    • Projection mapping

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  • Comanche Ln. on the Lake Road between Neenah & Oshkosh
  • Grace Lutheran, 913 Nebraska St, Oshkosh (corner of 9th and Nebreska)
    • Radio: 89.7 FM
    • Hours: 6 – 9 pm daily 
  • 1729 Knapp Street, Oshkosh
  • 1909 Delaware St, Oshkosh
Comanche Ln, Oshkosh

Omro

  • Benesh Lights on Georgetown, 4032 Georgetown Dr, Omro
    • Hours:
      • Sunday – Thursday: 5:30 – 9 pm
      • Friday – Saturday: 5:30 to 10 pm
    • 6,000 individually controllable lights synchronized to music
    • Radio: 88.7 FM
  • Fischer Light Show, Drake Ct, Omro, WI
    • special Packer song (Go Pack Go) on Packer game days
    • Hours: sunset (about 4:30) to 9 pm during the week and 10 pm on weekends.
    • Show is 20 minutes long currently.
    • Tune to 89.7 for music
    • Look for a QR code for donations. 100% of donations will go to our selected charities. This year we are starting with the Angel Fund which offsets negative lunch balances for children in the Omro school district.

Berlin

  • Light the Park at Nathan Strong Park, Berlin
    • Achieving a Better Community, (ABC Group) sponsors Light the Park at Nathan Strong Park in Berlin. The park has more than 130 lighted and decorated Christmas trees. Dusk to dawn, until January 8. Folks can drive all around the park or park the car and walk through the park located at E. Huron and Church St. Trees are provided by the ABC Group and then “adopted “ by individuals, families, clubs and businesses and are decorated in memory of a loved one, cause awareness, supporting police, veterans, etc.
Santa's Teddy Bear Village at the North Pole in Chilton Wisconsin
North Pole, Chilton

Chilton

  • The North Pole, N5207 Lemke Rd, Chilton
    • Tuesday thru Sunday (closed Mondays): 4 – 8 pm
  • Delightfully Calumet, Hobart Park, Chilton
    • 5th Annual Light Show. Every Friday, Saturday, & Sunday in December at the Calumet County Fairgrounds. Free Entry but food donations are appreciated for local food banks.

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  • Harbor Bar (across the street), 1919 W Lake St, Chilton

Brillion

  • 404 Fawn Dr, Brillion
    • This is the second year for this family friendly Christmas show programmed to music. Won the 2022 Most Creative award by the Brillion Chamber of Commerce. Tune to 96.7 FM to listen to Lights On Fawn.
Christmas Lights in Little Chute
Holiday Lights on the Fox, De Pere

Green Bay, De Pere, Howard 

  • WPS Garden of Lights, Green Bay Botanical Gardens, Green Bay
    • Walkthrough light show
    • Pre-purchased tickets online only
  • Titletown Winter Jubilee Light Show (music), 1065 Lombardi Ave. Green Bay
  • Mid Vallee Golf Course, 3870 Mid Valley Dr, De Pere (music)
    • DeGrand Light Show begins 11/21/23 and runs Tuesday through Sunday from 4:30-9 pm until January.
    • The light show is viewed from your car. Mid Vallee’s Bar and Grill are open until 7 pm. Stop in for a cup of “loaded” hot chocolate and get dinner!
  • 1144 Trailwood Drive, De Pere
    • 12th year! 15,000 Lights in an animated home display to 10 classic holiday songs. Outside speaker or tune radio. Non-perishable food donations collected for the De Pere Christian Outreach Food Bank.
  • Holiday Lights on the Fox, Brown County Fairgrounds, 1500 Fort Howard Avenue, De Pere
    • One Mile Long Drive Through,
    • Open Tuesday through Sunday from 4:30 pm to 10:00 pm, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
    • 88.7 FM
    • $25 cash / $30 card
    • Previously Santa’s Rock N Lights, now locally owned after off in 2022
  • Rotter Family Christmas Lights, 796 Glory Road, Green Bay (music)
    • Radio Station: 97.1 FM
  • East Ridge Lights, 2390 E Ridge Terrace, Bellevue (music)
    • Tune to 88.7 FM
    • There will be a letterbox outside for donations and for your kids to drop off their letters to Santa 
    • Donations accepted for Happily Ever After
  • New Franken Lights, 2270 St Killian Rd, New Franken (east Green Bay)
    • 5-8:30 pm
    • Collecting donations for Paul’s Pantry and Willow Creek Behavioral Health
    • Radio: 98.1
  • City Deck and Downtown Lights, 301 N Washington St, Downtown Green Bay
    • Large Christmas bulb perfect for pictures, trees, blue sculptures and more.
    • North Washington Street, near Packers Heritage Trail Plaza has green and gold lighted trees
    • South Washington Street across from Meyer Theatre – blue and white trees
  • Voyageur Park, 100 William St, De Pere
    • The drive-through display with more than 25 decorated and community-sponsored trees and other holiday displays is free on Saturdays and Sundays in December from 5 – 9 pm. 
  • Joy On Wendy Way Light Show, 560 Wendy Way, Pulaski
    • Fridays and Saturdays shows are kids focused
  • 1011 Grant St, De Pere
  • Billie Ct, Green Bay
  • 435 Menlo Park Rd, Green Bay
  • 2410 Woodington Way, Suamico
  • 2923 Moose Creek Trail, Suamico (music)
    • Sequenced Christmas light show with over 20K nodes running 30+ songs from 4-9:30 PM on FM 107.3. Accepting donations for The Giving Tree.
  • Patriot Way, De Pere (music)

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  • Virgo Road in Bellevue
    • Pretty lights, inflatables and music 
  • W393 Alpine Dr, De Pere (huge display, walk around yard for a fun scavenger hunt!)
  • 2166 Charles St, De Pere (music)
  • Escape Room Wisconsin, 985 Centennial Street, Ashwaubenon
    • This is a light show choreographed to music. The designers at Escape Room Wisconsin have been working on the programming of the show since June to bring some free entertainment to the community that can be enjoyed safely from inside their car.
    • Radio Station: 107.3 FM
  • 3603 Evergreen Ave., Howard
  • 2943 Steamboat Springs Run, Green Bay (Howard) (music)
    • Light show with music 87.9 FM
  • 3401 South Clay Street, Green Bay
    • Come see Santa’s workshop video and more on an outdoor screen, Front of home has Penguin theme with plenty of projection lights. (Outdoor screen located around the corner on Detrie St.) Tune into radio station 89.9. Shows normally run 5:30 to 9:30.
  • 9th Street, Green Bay (music)
    • Radio Station: 100.1 FM
  • Velp Ave. across from Rustique, Suamico
  • Sandy Acres Park Subdivision, De Pere
    • Head to the neighborhood by Sandy Acres Park, 3687 Misty Meadow Ln, De Pere

Manitowoc / Two Rivers

Stevens Point

  • Wylee World Holiday Light Show, 1728 Willow Springs Drive Stevens Point
    • Voted best holiday light show in Central Wisconsin. Also winner of the Wow Lights national contest for most unique and viewer friendly holiday light show in the USA. The display is a drive thru display with a light up 38 foot tall snowman as the entrance to a 250 foot lighted holiday tunnel that visitors drive inside to see the over 500,000 colorful holiday lights in this show. Connected end to end these lights are over 26 miles long and could travel from Stevens Point to Waupaca. Show includes unique displays like a 50 foot long piano keyboard that plays the music keys and displays music notes high in the sky to accompany the music that the lights flash and dance to. Additional unique displays include a 20 foot tall Santa Clause, that transforms into the Koolaid man for one holiday song, (you will have to attend the light show to see why), a 20 foot tall pile of Christmas presents you drive thru, 5 foot tall lollipops and candy canes, sing trees and light bulbs and much much more. One trip through the tunnel is not enough to see everything. The light show is free to the public but donations are appreciated. The light show runs from 5 pm till midnight each evening. A short drive is well worth it to see the unique and awe inspiring holiday light show.

Wisconsin Rapids

  • Konkols Christmas Lights, 2730 31st St S, Wisconsin Rapids
    • Radio: 103.9 FM
    • 8 songs this year, including 4 new songs, a singing Christmas tree, candy canes, and a “pixel forest”. The show repeats every 25 minutes but may be reduced during peak traffic periods (such as on the weekends around Christmas).
    • Donations: Drive-up donation box.

Other Wisconsin Light Shows

  • Brix Street Light Show, 86 Brix Street, Clintonville
    • A 20 minute show tuned to the radio, 88.3 FM. Shows begin at 5 pm and run until 9 pm (Sunday – Thursday) and 10 pm (Friday and Saturday).
  • Pine Cone Cir., Larsen
    • Lights best seen from Grace Lutheran Church Parking Lot
  • Fond du Lac Lakeside Park Christmas Lights
    • Enjoy a 20 minute show (approximately) with dancing trees. Tune your car radio to 87.9 FM to listen to the music. This years light show is in the park on the hill by the water treatment plant. When entering the park from Main street, take a left after passing the children’s play area. The best spot for viewing is in the parking lot across the street but be careful it does get busy. Don’t forget to see who is on top of the lighthouse! The show is free but donations are accepted for future improvements. Snacks available to purchase at The Snack Cabin located at the entrance by the main parking lot.
  • Rotary Winter Wonderland, Marshfield
    • Holiday lights display at Wildwood Zoo, Marshfield with over 1,000,000 L.E.D. lights! They also host many fun activities like Santa visits, horse drawn carriage rides, and more. Walk through or drive through. Check out their website for event information. It is free however donations of food and cash are accepted to help the local food pantries and keep the project running.
  • Making Spirits Bright, A Drive Through Holiday Display by the Sheboygan County Rotary Clubs
    • Free holiday light display at Evergreen Park in Sheboygan. Lights synchronized to music, tune your radio to 89.1 FM while driving through. Take a trolley ride on Fridays or Saturdays. Drop off a donation for the food pantry or leave a cash donation for the display.
  • Lights in Lincoln Park, Manitowoc 
    • Drive through Christmas light show in Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Visit Santa’s Cabin every Friday night before Christmas for cookies and hot chocolate.

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Please let us know if you have any other updates or addresses to add. Also, we would love pictures of or videos if you are willing to share. Email them to govalleykids@gmail.com or tag #GoValleyKids. We will continue to update with your help and post more pictures as we check out the displays as well!

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