christmas lights

Marcia Hale has been doing Christmas lights on Park Point for years, and it's become a tradition for many people to visit. According to a FB post, the ice candles are done and they are ready to open tomorrow.

We talked with Sweet Event Duluth yesterday about their 3rd Annual Christmas Lighting Challenge. A lot of homes & businesses have entered the contest, and they've put together a map of all the locations in the contest.

When I was younger, my family would hop in the car with hot chocolate and, using the list of entries, would drive around Duluth and see the homes entered in the lighting contest. Last night I packed my Aunt and my son Sam in the car and we took the list for the Twin Ports Lighting Challenge, hot chocolate, and some cookies, and we looked at the majority of them. One of the addresses surprised me.

Saturday night my family and I piled into my truck to drive around and look at Christmas lights.  My wife had heard that a place on Park Point was going to be featured on ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight."   So we went ahead and fought through the traffic downtown and made it to park point.   It was definitely worth it.  What a wonderful place!

  We know of the amazing holiday sites and lights right here in the Northland, but if your holiday travels take you to the Twin Cities, here is one attraction you and your family will enjoy on your trip. The St. Paul Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association and the St. Paul Police Foundation are proud to announce the opening of the seventh annual Holiday Lights in the Park at St.

According to their website Bentleyville is America's largest FREE walk through lighting display.  How awesome that something SO cool is right here in the Northland.  It all started with Nathan Bentley in 2001.  The phenomenon has since moved to Bayfront Park and exists with the help of several community volunteers.

Last year the 56,000 light Christmas display which adorned Jan Stewart's Fountain Valley, California home went viral, with a YouTube video of the lights in action garnering close to 500,000 views.

The Christmas City Of The North Parade is done for another year, but downtown Duluth remains full of holiday cheer with the 7th annual storefront window display and lighting contest presented by the Greater Downtown Council.

Did you do the impossible?  Think ahead and put your holiday lights up in July?  Even if you didn't, that's no excuse to dig out those ripped boxes of tangled holiday lights, plug em' in to make sure they work and get to it!!  It could win you a trophy or a prize!!!  Enter yourself, or get your whole neighborhood involved, it's time to get into that holiday spirit. Here's the details and a link to