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NOTE! This is the list from 2006 and many displays here may not be lit anymore. The 2007 version can be found at www.komotv.com/weather/lights.
FINAL UPDATE: Friday, Dec. 22 @ 5:00 p.m.
King County - Pierce County - Snohomish County - Kitsap County
Clallam County - Thurston County - Whatcom County - Mason County
Skagit County - Other Counties
Thanks to all who submitted and participated in another year of Pool's Parade of Lights. Sort of an unusual year with all the severe weather wreaking havoc on power supplies, but many weathered the storms. Our feature has ended for 2006, but we'll leave this page up for a few days after Christmas in case you want to drive around -- we just can't guarantee any of these displays will keep their lights on past the 25th.
Special thanks once again to super Parade of Lights photographer Stephen Ramaley for driving out to these displays all across the Puget Sound area on his own time and getting them on film for our nightly feature.
We look forward to seeing all of you in 2007!
Sincerely,
Scott Sistek, Parade of Lights Producer
Pool's Parade of Lights is proudly sponsored by the Seattle Symphony.
KING COUNTY:
City: Auburn
Address: 14412 SE Green Valley Road
A neighbor nominated this house, saying the homeowner works very hard at putting up lights every year for the neighborhood and has been doing so for over 20 years. The neighbor says the owner dresses up as Santa every year for the children on the school bus to see on their way home from school, and stands out in the yard and waves to them as they pass by.
City: Auburn
Address: 2023 24th ST NW
With the angel sounding the coming of a new holiday season, the chain saw bear has gifts in paw for Santa & his reindeer. The snowpeople skating the rink along with the rest of Santa's helpers ridding the Ferris wheel & penguins sledding on the candy canes are all kept safe by the tin solders in this winter wonderland. And to remind of the true meaning of Christmas, Mary & Joseph along with the kings & critters are looking on at the Christ child in the manger. Jim & Naomi have 14,000 lights with homemade scenes for you to enjoy this holiday! |
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City: Bellevue / Garden D'Lights
Address: Bellevue Botanical Garden, 12001 Main Street
The Garden 'blooms' in the middle of winter with thousands of lights used to create botanical displays. The actual number of lights is unknown, the estimate is close to 500,000. This family event is free of charge and open to the public...donations are gladly accepted to perpetuate and enhance the event. More info at www.bellevuebotanical.org |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Thursday Dec. 21 @ 11 p.m.
City: Bellevue
Address: 836 172nd Ave NE
Once again, obsession has taken over the Paasch house. 30,000 lights with several display, including Santa and his Reindeer taking off from the roof -- complete with runway lights to show him the way. Golfing Santa hits a hole in one! A forest of trees on the roof. Excellent mixture of colored lights and combinations. Bring non perishable food for Northwest Harvest. |
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City: Bellevue
Address: 15160 NE 7th Pl.
City: Burien
Address: 656 SW 149th St.
Fantastic display of wood cutouts of various holiday characters, including snowmen, gingerbread men, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, lights, reindeers and even a sleigh or two. The residents made each of the characters from patterns and all are made out of wood then painted.
City: Fall City
Address: 5028 Lake Alice Road
With over 16,000 lights and displays, this house lights up the entire street. A lighted Santa Claus and reindeer sit atop the house while candy canes, lighted trees and a giant snowflake all decorate the huge yard. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Monday Dec. 18 @ 11 p.m.
City: Federal Way
Address: 30640 11th Ave S
Jason Mertl uses plywood, painted black, so the lights show up. He has friends and relatives draw an outline, of candy canes, presents, angels-all in the Christmas theme. He then drills holes along the outlines and inserts the bulbs from strings of mini lights into each hole, from the backside of the plywood. Jason says it takes deceptively large number of lights to fill the flats. He figures he has used at least 100,000 bulbs here. The flats are held in place with 2x4's. The result is a very clean and professional looking display. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Wednesday Dec. 13 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Issaquah
Address: 9325 240th Ave SE
Now here is your really big display -- 250,000 lights, computer controlled by seven Light-O-Rama boxes, using 112 channels. Lights move to over 10 minutes of music piped to your car over a low power transmitter at 104.7 FM. You might think the creators of this show might be a bit smug, but that is far from the case. Jeri Ginnatry head of the Ginnatry family says he puts on this display for one humble reason "to see the smiles on peoples faces." He is also seeking donations for the Toys for Tots program. Learn more about Jeri and his display next Tuesday December 19th, he will be a guest on First News at 4-right here on KOMO TV.
SEE A VIDEO OF THEIR DISPLAY IN ACTION AT THIS LINK |
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City: Kent
Address: 18531 SE 224th Street
A big light display that is timed to music via computers. The lights start December 1st and run each night from 7 - 9pm. visit www.christmasinkent.com for directions. Don't forget their can food drive December 15th and 16th! |
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City: Kirkland
Address: 12017 NE 75th St
Come see a Kirkland favorite. Just south of Lake Washington High School, this display has over 30,000 lights -- a classic display of mainly single color strings of lights. A stream runs through the yard complete with ducks and deer. A hillside of azaleas is timed to Christmas music. There is a flag in remembrance of 9/11 and the people serving our country. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Tuesday Dec. 19 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Maple Valley
Address: 26618 214th Ave SE
The Gradwohl's holiday light display has earned them the nickname the Griswolds from the movie "National Lampoons Christmas Vacation." The Gradwohl's have won Maple Valley's Griswold award 2 years running and been featured in last year's King County Journal. This beautiful holiday light display contains some 40,000 lights. Trains, polar bears, inflatables and a 7 foot wreath with 2,000 lights grace the scene. A must see on your holiday light tour! Lighting hours 5-10 p.m. Sun. - Thurs., 5-11 p.m. Fri.-Sat. |
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City: Maple Valley
Address: 21621 SE 281st Street
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Monday Dec. 18 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Normandy Park
Address: 18602 Marine View Drive SW
Follow the signs up Vicki Johnson’s driveway, it will direct you to the North Pole and the front yard that looks like a cross between Christmas, Fourth of July and Disneyland. It turns out the exploding star is an electronic 4th of July decoration. Vicki and her decorating crew added 13 foot strings of rope lights for effect. The star is 20 feet tall. Vicki, assisted by her husband Rick and 10 members of their car club put in and estimated 180 man hours of work to create the feeling that you are somehow in another world.
This display has matured from only a few items four years ago to what you see today. As the Johnson’s drove around each Christmas looking at lighting, Vicki thought "I can do this." And so the star and everything else was born. The Johnson’s also light for Easter, Fourth of July and Halloween.
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City: Renton
Address: 18109 143 AVE SE
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Monday Dec. 11 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Renton
Address: 13835 146th Pl. SE
Bob and Nancy Meyer have taken it upon themselves to decorate a public walkway next to their house as "Candy Cane Lane." Candy canes line the path, hang off of PVC pipe arches, and check out the "Cane wheel". There are figurines collected from many garage sales. Open the mail box halfway down the path for a free candy cane-don't forget to sign the guest book. |
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City: Seattle
Address: 9234 13th Ave NW
They have about 9,000 lights this year with several blowups and about 20 different trees and a big frosty about the property. The lights are on from 5 p.m. till 10 p.m. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Tuesday Dec. 12 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Seattle (Northgate)
Address: 10723 Densmore Ave N.
It looks like a mechanized museum. A window to some kind of fantasy world created by a toy maker gone mad. Not you're everyday Christmas display. Dan Breidenstein began this Northgate area tradition 26 years ago with an animated train-the wheels moved the stack smoked and moving creatures played in the yard.
Enter Dan Pardy. Pardy's ideas were magical-he was blessed with both mechanical and creative talents. The Dans got together and this is the result. The pair will typically spend the first half of the year putting ideas on paper, experimenting with designs and trying to get the right look, according to Vonnie Breidenstein. In the early days the Dans used wooden cams, string , fishing line, bicycle chains and old rotisserie motors to move their creations. Over the years the display and the characters evolved into what you see now, creatures which are seemingly alive. Elves building toys, rain deer that dance, mesmerizing every child who visits. Get out of the car, walk up and take a look, this display will draw you in to another world.
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City: Seattle (Northgate)
Address: 10714 and 10720 14th Ave NE
City: Seattle (Queen Anne)
Address: 1400 Bigelow Ave N
They have been decorating since 1962 on Queen Anne Hill. They have Santa and the Elves above the porch and a nativity scene that have been out every year for 44 years. They added Snoopy, friends and his dog house about 10 years ago. The reindeer and woodland scene came along about 6 years ago. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Thursday Dec. 14 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Seattle (Wallingford)
Address: 3916 Woodlawn Avenue North
The home of Fred & Sharon Ehrig. There are approximately 16,000 lights, all of which are either snowflakes, candy canes or reindeer. This year, Sharon has Santa's eight reindeer flying from the front porch with Rudolph coming to join them. Santa will be out on the porch in person starting Friday December 8th through the 23rd. The hours for Santa are 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM. There are two other houses on this block with Christmas displays. |
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City: Shoreline
Address:16906 13th Ave NW
Another year, another great light show at the Igl residence! Unfortunately, like many things around the region, their lights display suffered moderate damage due to winds shattering large numbers of bulbs. One week and a few shopping trips later, broken strands were replaced and everything was close to normal again but just not the same. While adding more than 2,000 lights from last year, they think they're over 12,000. |
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City: Shoreline
Address: 726 North 204th Street
This is the 45th year of House & Yard Decorating for Brock & Shirley Hogle. It has grown every year and now takes about 3 weeks for the 74 year old retired school teacher, with 2 metal hips, to set it up. The neighbors love it & many cars slow as they see it when going north on Fremont. They light up at 5 p.m. & leave them on until 11 p.m. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Tuesday Dec. 19 @ 11 p.m.
City: Shoreline
Address:16744 Wallingford Ave N
Certainly not the most lights around, but energy savings was the theme of this display. This display of about 1,000 lights uses just 72 watts of power -- less than one string of traditional holiday lights! The display includes LED rope lights, snowflakes, icicles, and many strings of multi-color and single color LED lights. All of the lights were purchased locally - no special orders or mail order products are used. |
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City: Tukwila
Address: 4225 S. 160 St.
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City: Woodinville
Address: 19910 216th Avenue NE
PIERCE COUNTY:
City: Bonney Lake
Address: 9416 180th Ave. E
Address: This home is a delight to see with thousands of lights, a rotating carousel, numerous animated deer, a 12-foot Santa, Snoopy on his doghouse, a train, and Santa and his reindeer on the roof. The entire neighborhood is lit with lighted swags crossing the street in numerous places. |
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City: Bonney Lake
Address: 9310 180th Ave East
There are about 50 homes that are lit most of the night here in the Sky Island Division One development.
City: Puyallup
Address: 1615 34th St SE
Troy Halfaday and a crew of friends dubbed the "Christmas Lights Brotherhood" began work around Halloween, note the Santa runway lights patterned after those found at real airports. Troy and his crew didn't stop at the house, all the trees and curbing in their cul-de-sac are lit as well. This is in the Crystal Ridge neighborhood. |
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City: Spanaway
Address: 20301 59th Ave E.
As you drive to the house, you drive under 5 red and white lighted arches that go over the driveway. Once you get to the house, you are greeted by the Lighted Snowman and Santa, and you can't forget the friendly Polar Bear (with a Santa Hat) on the roof. In total this year there are about 1,100 LED lights, and about 1,700 incandescent lights. |
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City: Tacoma
Address: 5111 N. 47th
There are about 5,000 lights, an animated train and seal, a snowman, an 8-foot Santa, 6-foot polar bear, a snowman family and other items. |
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City: Tacoma
Address: 48th & Faucett
City: Tacoma
Address: 1230 S. Verde
The person nominating this house says they have lights everywhere & a huge Santa on a sleigh lit up.
SNOHOMISH COUNTY:
Featured On Parade Of Lights: Wednesday Dec. 13 @ 11 p.m.
City: Brier
Address: 3700 & 3800 blocks of 228th PL SW
Celebrating the 10th annual lighting festivities of Timberline Park, this brightly lit cul-de-sac of 10 homes is well known for their holiday displays and annual food drive. Non-perishable food items and cash gladly accepted. Lights are on nightly beginning at 5:30 PM. Displays include Elfco Field, the Nativity, the Grinch, golfing Santa, Santa and his team, carolers, Frosty's Sno-cone stand, a holiday carousel and many more, not to mention the many thousands of lights. Visit www.brierlights.org for more information and directions. Their block will also be featured again on HGTV's "Outta Control Christmas", airing on December 21 at 6 p.m. and December 24 at 5 p.m.. |
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City: Brier
Address: 2709 232 St. SW
Nicholas has done it again and they have thousands of lights and many different displays, including a train, Santas, reindeers, manger, snowman, 4 big blow-ups including a carousel, Mickey Mouse, bear, and others. Also, 101-ft. tree with lights and a star on top. Nicholas has done this since he was twelve years old. |
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City: Edmonds
Address: 739 Edmonds Ave
Fred Schuerman's display is visible from all over the Edmonds Bowl.
City: Edmonds
Address: 7120 Meadowdale Beach Rd.
They have been growing our display now for eight years. This year's total is about 85,000 lights! The display includes bubbles, a 150-ft river of lights that jumps the street to the neighbors, and a 65-ft tall animated tree. |
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City: Edmonds
Address: 10026 242nd Place SW
The best use of over 1,000 old CD's in a unique light display, with homemade cutouts of Santa dropping presents from his plane, Frosty waving and a yummy gingerbread house complete with candy canes, and a 8-foot angel with glistening CD wings watching over a nativity scene. To add a touch of southern flavor, there's a sleigh being pulled by flamingos. |
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City: Everett
Address: 13114 29th Ave S.E.
There are over 14,000 lights which covers every viewpoint from the front of the house and down the street onto the main road. The driveway and front walkway is lined with handmade candy canes with Santa on top of the roof. The roof peaks and grass are even lined with lights with a polar bear and reindeer centered in the yard. Everywhere you look there is lights and the cars constantly honk as neighbors admire. |
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City: Everett (Silver Firs)
Address: 5628 140th Pl. SE
Bob & Roberta Ellis are at it again, adding even more lights than last year. This display has over 50,000 lights and draws 125 amps. Please donate to the can food drive, all donations will be distributed to local food banks. |
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City: Lynnwood
Address: 1905 206th St SW
Once again this year they have over 25,000 lights with 130 handmade cutouts. Come by and see Santa and his reindeer, Santa on a Harley, snowmen, carolers, and many more. Lights are on from dusk until 11:00 pm every night of the week. |
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City: Lynnwood
Address: 5811 172nd Pl.
This Christmas light display is too large to be seen in one picture. There are more lights than you can count. A 20ft. 4-piece train takes over the neighbors house while a 50-ft. high star with angels and doves hovers over a full size nativity. Santa is leaving the roof with his 8 reindeer and Rudolph in the lead. There are so many other scenes to see including a Toy Land, Santa's Workshop and the deer. Every year a piece is added to this display so don't miss out! |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Thursday Dec. 14 @ 11 p.m.
City: Lynnwood
Address: 14011 Ash Way
Corner lot, lots of lights -- estimated at over 30,000. Their house and lawn is covered in lights. Check out the trees and hammock display. Like many others Mark has a bin for food bank collections, just cross over the footbridge. Park on 140th (north of the house). |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Friday Dec. 15 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Marysville
Address: 817 Quinn
A longtime favorite, this year with a lot of new features and a completely redesigned carport display (those who have seen it in the past will know what we mean). Bring a flashlight or use the car headlights; point the light at the bear and see what happens. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Friday Dec. 15 @ 11:00 p.m.
City: Marysville
Address: 12629 48th Ave NE
When Rickey Dooley was a young boy, his parents owned a children's store, and each year they put up lots of lights on the business. It's where Rickey got the lighting bug, but his parents eventually sold the store. So Rickey has continued the tradition by lighting up his mother's house in Marysville. Everything in the display is homemade. |
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City: Mill Creek
Address: 169th Pl. S.E. and 23rd Ave.
Animated sculptures, chasing lights, nativity scene, Santa, reindeer, snowmen, Christmas trees, etc.
Featured On Parade Of Lights: Monday Dec. 11 @ 11 p.m.
City: Mountlake Terrace
Address: 227th Pl SW and 42nd Pl W
Ron Warhol and neighbors need your help. Visit them at the tent on 227th Pl., and bring money or food for the Mountlake Terrace Food bank. Due to the weather, donations are down. In return you will get views of over a dozen decorated homes-a forest of inflated figures-and a candy cane or two. Stop by the white tent, bring your donation. |
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City: Snohomish
Address: 8111 151st place SE
The Polar Bears are walking through the display, under the arches and in the water; they have Disney plywood cutouts, dolphins jumping, and a dragon with his tail changing colors. The train is over 48' long, loaded with all kind of toys. There's even have a hidden Mickey, can you find it? |
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KITSAP COUNTY
City: Port Orchard
Address: 5947 Turley Loop Rd.
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City: Poulsbo
Address: 26730 Big Valley Rd. N.E.
This display includes more than 57,000 lights & about 4 miles of light strings and extension cords. The display is a 600-foot long journey to the North Pole and back through the lighted woods past the foggy pond and waterfall. At the North Pole, you will Santa's House and the animated wooden toy factory among other things. As you descend Candy Cane Lane, the Nativity appears, highlighted with gold lights and angels. The last leg of your journey takes you thru the lighted orchard back to the lower grounds. The attached photo shows only about 5 percent of the lights. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Friday Dec. 22 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Poulsbo
Address: 26730 Big Valley Rd NE
Ron Comin specifically built the garden for his lighting display and everything is scaled to the size of children-the buildings are meticulously built-all the wiring is underground. He took us past the waterfall, through the woods to the North Pole, and by his animated toy shop. There are about 57,000 lights here, 4 miles of power wire, all connected to ten circuits dedicated solely to Christmas lights. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Wednesday Dec. 20 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Poulsbo
Address: 19022 Karl Pl. NE
Rich Starkgraf and his friend Rich Sardarov are gradually convincing everyone in their Poulsbo cul-de-sac to decorate for the Holidays. The centerpiece of this whole thing is the brainchild of Rich Sardarov. He decorates his mother's house. Rich tries to stay away from buying his animated pieces. He builds them from scratch and like the master maestro-he controls each one from a series of switches on his porch. Plywood, old fan motors and other salvage are put to good use. He is a stickler for detail, each year trying to one up himself with new inventions. There is a bubble machine. Smoke pours from the train stack. He built a working snow plow. A fire truck manned by singing Grinches puts out a fire. There is separate music for each set up. This display brings out the child in all of us. |
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City: Poulsbo
Address: 19342 23rd Ave NE
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City: Poulsbo
Address: End of Brixton Lane
The house has thousands of lights that are set up in motion and timing with music . They cover the entire house, all the tress, fences, bushes, windows and so on.
CLALLAM COUNTY:
THURSTON COUNTY:
City: Olympia
Address: 2228 Lakemoor Dr SW
There are over 36,000 lights; 9,000 of which are synchronized to music by my computer -- the music is broadcasted on a shortwave FM transmitter FM 92.9. The display also features two color-changing trees, 14 snowflakes above the roof that fade off and on, Santa and his nine reindeer up on the roof, a waterfall and stream made of blue lights with motion, a rainbow and a nativity scene. It takes them two to three weeks to put it up. |
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City: Olympia
Address: 4842 Thompson Lane SE
(Goes live Dec. 9) Bill Foley's display has 35,000 lights and 180 computer controlled channels -- mostly animated wire frames moving to the beat of the music. Wire frames, many with two to four animations, and covered rope lights fill the yard. Inside, a computer with the Light-O-Rama software package is "control central." |
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City: Olympia
Address: 424 Wilson St.
They have put up a 22' ft tree and added a frosty and the letters NOEL to there roof. They also have Christmas music playing and is definitely worth taking a look at, and are taking donations for the local food bank. |
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City: Olympia
Address: 3707 Pifer Ct.
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City: Yelm
Address: 15139 Carter Loop SE
The house is covered in lights, there is a 20-foot red and white light tree, Santa with his sleigh and reindeer, Mr. & Mrs. Frosty, Santa Express semi-truck, an arch-way of lights across the drive-way. In all, about 45,000 lights. |
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City: Yelm
Address: 10405 Barry Bridges St SE
A 2000+ computer controlled Christmas light display synchronized to music using LightORama products. Tune to 95.3 FM to listen to the music. You can see the YouTube video at this link. |
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MASON COUNTY:
City: Shelton
Address: E 3440 Johns Prairie Rd
Every year it gets a bigger and better! The Wood family has one of the biggest light displays in the Shelton area.
WHATCOM COUNTY:
SKAGIT COUNTY:
City: Burlington
Address: 823 Northview Drive
This display has thousands of lights that dance to Christmas music. There's homemade 3-foot tall letters, dancing candy cnes and dancing trees. Show is on from 6-8 p.m. Every night. |
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Featured On Parade Of Lights: Tuesday Dec. 12 @ 11 p.m.
City: Mount Vernon
Address: 606 N 18th Place
David Bowman and some of his neighbors looked at the holiday lights blazing on their block and decided "we should be doing something with all this power we are using." That something turned out to be collecting food for a local Mt. Vernon food bank called "Neighbors in need." As several area neighborhoods have discovered, much can be accomplished when residents work together, creating a multi-house light show. Last Saturday night one family passed out apple cider as people drove by.
At times a steady stream of cars and busses will fill 18th place. David and his neighbors would like to see bins full of food with traffic jams every night. The block even pooled their money and took out an ad in a local newspaper soliciting donations.
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OTHER COUNTIES:
Featured On Parade Of Lights: Thursday Dec. 21 @ 6:30 p.m.
City: Clinton (Island Co.)
Address: 6504 Robin Lane
When it comes to volts and amps Jerry is a bit more knowledgeable and prepared, than most. He is an electrician. His 55,000 Kilowatt generator, designed to automatically start running when the power grid goes down, kept things lit-a small pool of light in an otherwise dark landscape.
The Becks have been doing this display for about 10 years. The music is piped over a small ¼ watt FM transmitter on 89.3 which Jerry and his son built from a kit. This year the computer has logged about 30-50 visitors a night-over 800 cars total so far. Jerry Lois and the boys hope you enjoy your visit. They hope you will show your appreciation by giving to your favorite Whidbey Island charity.
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City: Oak Harbor (Island Co.)
Address: 973 W. Rebecca Lane
City: Mossyrock (Lewis Co.)
Address: "The Entire Town"
The whole town of Mossyrock has created the "Avenue of Trees" and "Courtyard of Trees". Local Christmas tree farms have donated more than 100 trees that have been decorated by businesses and schools in the town. The ones by the businesses are kept lit up all night for the most part. And there is a residential "courtyard" right downtown that has a huge tree and lots of lights.
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