From downtown Cleveland's Public Square to Nela Park to Shaker Square, Northeast Ohio offers a wide range of festive holiday light displays. Discover a new one this year. (updated for 2008)
- Public Square - The four quadrants for the "Square" come alive with thousands of lights, beginning November 29 (2008) at 630pm and lasting through January 31. Free.
- Shaker Square - Holiday Memories on the Square. Attend the lighting ceremony on November 29 at 7pm (free admission) or drive by anytime until after New Year's.
- Medina County Fair Holiday Fantasy - November 14 through December 28 - Drive through the Medina fairgrounds, transformed into a winter wonderland with 85 lighting displays; 710 W Smith Rd., Medina; 6pm - 9pm; $7 per car
- Nela Park - A Cleveland holiday tradition since 1925, the GE facility at Nela Park puts up hundreds of thousands of lights along the Noble Road perimeter of their grounds each year, beginning in early December and lasting until New Years Day. Nela Park also manufactures the lights for the National Christmas Tree in Washington DC.
- Sawmill Creek Festival of Lights - Fireland Festival of Lights; Route 2, Huron; Grand lighting November 28; lighting display is up from November 28 to December 31; 5pm - 10pm; free admission.
- Akron's Holiday Fest Lighting Spectacular - Lock 3 Live! - from November 28 - January 1. Lighting is on November 28 at 7pm; admission is free.
- Stan Hywet Hall - Deck the Hall! - The Stan Hywet estate is surrounded by more than 200,000 holiday lights from November 8 until December 28 (except Mondays, Thanksgivign, December 24 and 25), 630pm - 830pm; grounds tours $8; house and grounds tours are $14.
- Cleveland Museum of Art - Winter Lantern Festival - December 5 - 14; "Environment of Lights" displays around Wade Oval, plus lantern displays at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
- Lake Farmpark - Country Lights - December 5 - 23; from 5pm - 9pm; enjoy a horse-drawn wagon ride through the park, trimmed with hundred of thousands of lights; Admission: adults $7, seniors $6, 2-11 $5, under 2 free.
- Blossom Music Center - Holiday Lights - drive through thousands of festive displays; November 28 - December 14 and December 18 - January 4; Sunday - Thursday: 6pm - 9pm, Friday and Saturday: 6pm - 11pm; $15 per carload; $5 discount coupons available at Marc's stores.
- Bedeck the Holiday - See hundreds of lights adorning the William G. Mather Museum at Cleveland Harborfront, near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; November 28 - January 6; free; 5pm - 11pm
- Chagrin Falls Lighting of the Greens - November 28 - Triangle Park - 645pm; free
(Last updated 11-11-08)
