🎄 Get ready to light up your holiday season! From dazzling displays in Canonsburg and festive house‑splendors in Peters Township/McMurray area to spectacular drives through the Mon Valley and twinkling neighborhoods of the South Hills and professional displays in West Virginia, this guide to holiday lights across Washington County and southwest PA has everything you need. Whether you’re hunting for the biggest light displays, searching for local “light up nights,” or planning a family‑friendly evening drive to enjoy holiday magic, we’ve mapped it all out so you won’t miss a single glowing moment.
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November 8 - Tree Lighting & Santa's Arrival at Tanger Outlets Pittsburgh
November 15 - Scenery Hill Light Up Night and Christmas Market
November 27 - Light Up Night in McDonald
December - Chartiers Township Light Up Night
December 5 & 6 - Canonsburg's Old Fashioned Christmas
December 5 - Peters Township Holiday Kick Off
December 13 - Holidays in the Park
November 22 - Downtown Pittsburgh Light Up Night Bonus night Friday, November 21
 Ongoing Light Displays |
Holiday Lights Drive Thru In The Park
NST Holiday Lights Drive Thru is a new experience at North Strabane Park. December 1, 2025 - January 1, 2026.
1957 Route 519
Canonsburg, PA 15317
Dazzling Nights will transform Pittsburgh Botanic Garden into a stunning winter wonderland featuring dazzling lights, shining forests, magical displays, music, and beautiful sculptures! Find out more about this year's highlights here. November 28, 2025 - January 3, 2026.
Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
799 Pinkerton Run Rd, Oakdale, PA 15071
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See America's Finest Traditional Amusement Park transformed with over one million dazzling lights and marvel at the tallest Christmas tree in the state. Savor the flavors of new festive foods and holiday drinks. Plus, there are rides for the kids and special entertainment for all. Make it part of your tradition.
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Phipps features magnificent new displays featuring holiday trees adorned in jewel tones, exquisitely detailed props and signature floral delights. The beauty isn't just indoors, the Winter Light Garden fills the Outdoor and Discovery Gardens with spectacular lights in vivid shades that will awe guests of all ages.
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Founded in 1993, the Christmas Light Up Celebration in Clinton, PA is the best kept holiday secret in Pittsburgh. Drive through and enjoy a one mile experience of light displays in a wooded setting.
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Walk-around the Christmas Village that’s filled with an array of old-fashioned traditions and treats. Sing carols ’round the bonfire, revel in the model train display, have your picture taken with Santa (in the days before Christmas), take a horse drawn wagon/sleigh ride or shop for gifts in the C. Edgar & Sons General Store plus much, much more as you experience the warmth of this traditional Christmas Village!
Oglebay Annual Winter Festival Of Lights
The dazzling drive-through experience is lit up nightly from dusk to midnight, including holidays, from November 10 – January 4.
For all the events below we are still awaiting details for 2025:
Holiday Lights & Late Nights
It's a drive but if you're traveling in that area it may be fun!
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| Homes/ Neighborhoods to check out (submitted by readers) |
- Downtown Canonsburg
- Oakbrook Estates Neighborhood (Cecil Twp) Close to Sarris to grab a treat!
- Winterberry Ct (located within Oakbrook Estates) accepting donations to food drive
- The ‘Griswold’ house on East McMurray Road (between St. David’s and Al’s Cafe).
- St Simon & Jude on Greentree Rd- light display that dances to lights and music.
- Crossroads Ministries in Finleyville - Drive Through Nativity & Light Display - Free but it looks like you need to get a ticket - December
- Brodzinski Family Light Show in Whitehall - 31 Crest Drive - they even have a Facebook page
- Nellis Family Holiday light show - Animated Holiday light show with over 20,000 LEDs synchronized to music, Tune your car radio to 105.3 FM and listen to the light show! Another one with a Facebook page
- Pappy Ed's Christmas Lights - The corner of Glenburn and Orchard in Pleasant Hills. Facebook page
- Check out the corner house on Forsythe and Crest Lane in Scott Twp
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December 12-14 - Deck the Barns cancelled for 2025 - we hope to see it back in 2026!
