Your Guide to the Best Neighborhood Holiday Lights in Coastal Virginia

If you love driving around to look at neighborhood Christmas lights, check out the list of popular neighborhood holiday light displays below.

Dances Bay Christmas Lights: 100 block of Dances Bay Road, Elizabeth City NC 27909. “We feature over 15 houses of lights in our neighborhood that decorate their homes and yards and then three houses side-by-side that really go all out with almost 1 million lights between the whole neighborhood. This is a drive-through display in which you just drive through the neighborhood to see the homes, as well we have a pull-off area for you to pull off and get out of your vehicle to walk through certain designated walkways that will take you throughout the yards for photo opportunities.”

Holt Family Lights: 705 Tallahassee Dr., Chesapeake, VA 23322. Grand Illumination: Saturday, November 22, at 5:30 pm. Hours: Mondays-Thursdays 5:30-8:30 pm, Fridays-Saturdays 5:30-10 pm, Sundays 5:30-9:00 pm. The display will run nightly (weather permitting) from November 22 through Christmas Eve. Character Nights with Buddy, Santa, the Grinch, Elmo, and Cookie Monster will be on December 13th and 20th from 6-8 pm.

Ledbetter’s Holly Jolly Inflatable Christmas Extravaganza: 701 Wild Cherry Ct, Chesapeake, VA 23322

Phillips Family Christmas Lights: 316 Wisdom Path, Chesapeake, VA 23322

Piazza Family Christmas Lights: 913 Pleasant Ridge Drive, Chesapeake, VA 23322

Pier Landing Lights: 164 Pier Landing, South Mills, NC, United States, North Carolina.

Priest Family Christmas: 820 Sydenham Blvd, Chesapeake, Virginia.

Sheely Family Lights: 703 Ava Ct, Chesapeake, VA 23322.

Stern Family Holiday Light Show: 108 Sheffield Way, Newport News, VA

Woodland Christmas Wonderland: 4028 Woodland Drive, Chesapeake, VA
This annual light display runs throughout the holiday season and is free to the public. Donations for the Portsmouth Humane Society are accepted on site.