Enjoy Christmas music while you check out the North Pole and drive through 1.5 million lights at Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park in Ladue. This St. Louis area holiday tradition began in 1987. Glimmering lights…
Date Archives December 2025
Belleville Christkindlmarkt: Explore a German Market
Visit the open-air Belleville Christkindlmarkt with food, entertainment, European crafts, and beverages this holiday season. Our Time at Belleville Christkindlmarkt The open-air market in Belleville, Il., is modeled after the Christmas Markets in Germany. It…
Road Trip to a Top 50 Christmas Lights Display in Koekuk
Keokuk, Iowa’s “City of Christmas” lights display made the list of the Top 50 Christmas Light Displays in America. It contains over one million lights. Over 20,000 vehicles make it through the lights each year. We did find…
See Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland of Lights
Whimsical Christmas lights reflecting off a lake are found at Lebanon’s Winter Wonderland drive-thru light display at Horner Park. Thousands of lights can be seen here with many scenes of the holiday season. We entered…
Video Tour of Famous-Barr Resort Ruins
Video Tour of the Famous-Barr resort ruins at Vernon. S. Beck Park. At one time, Famous-Barr employees had their own summer resort on the Meramec River, complete with an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a lodge…
Seeing Christmas Lights on Candy Cane Lane
During the holiday season, the St. Louis Hills neighborhood along the 6500 block of Murdoch Avenue lights up with hundreds of strands of Christmas lights to become Candy Cane Lane. This is a neighborhood Christmas…
Checkout STL Brewery Lights at Anheuser-Busch
See more than a million twinkling lights at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis and best of all it is free.
Where to See Christmas Lights at the Lake of the Ozarks
Santa, Rudolph, and lake-themed Christmas lights can be seen at numerous light displays during Christmas time at the Lake of the Ozarks. We checked out two drive-through Christmas lights while we were staying the night…
East Peoria’s Over-The-Top Festival of Lights
A Star Wars firefight and skiers jumping over your car are just some of the amazing light displays at the East Peoria Festival of Lights. The Festival of Lights Electric Park comprises floats that begin…
