Updated for 2024 Holiday Season! If you’re lucky enough to spend your holidays in St. Louis, you have many incredible options for holiday lights in St. Louis and around the region – from the Missouri Botanical Gardens to Wild Lights at the St. Louis Zoo, but the unsung heroes of this festive season are the homeowners who spend days stringing lights, synchronizing songs and blissfully arranging lawn inflatables for your entertainment.
Below is a short list of some of the best home holiday light displays you can find in neighborhoods throughout the St. Louis metro area. As an added bonus, many of them incorporate philanthropic missions into their light displays!
Ladue Pines Home: Toys for Tots Christmas Show
The light show, in the Ladue Pines neighborhood, 1/2 mile west of I-270 and head towards Mason Road is perhaps the most impressive single-home display in the region. The house boasts 125,000 lights timed to a soundtrack that broadcasts via radio frequency, incredible video features, and a firmly captivated audience of cars most nights during the season.
This house is the only residential collection point for Toys for Tots donations in the region, and often has a Marine volunteer on hand on the weekends to assist in the collection of donations. Last year, the Christmas display collected more than 3,000 toys for the needy during the season.
Candy Cane Lane: St. Louis Hills Neighborhood
Located in the 6500 block of Murdoch, the St. Louis Hills neighborhood lies squarely between two St. Louis greats – Francis Park and Ted Drewes custard stand. The neighborhood kicks off the holiday season with a Christmas Tree lighting each year on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Neighborhood residents are so eager to participate in the annual tradition that dozens of volunteers help the elderly or otherwise busy with trimming their homes to ensure holiday cheer shines from every angle.
Don’t forget to bring along money when you go. The neighborhood association collects more than $10,000 each season for a rotating list of charities. And bring some patience, most weekends will have a line to get to the street. Click for directions to Candy Cane Lane.
The holiday cheer in St Louis Hills does not end there. Just around the corner from Candy Cane Lane you will find Angel's Way and across the park you'll find Snowflake Street. We recommend bringing some popcorn & hot cocoa and making a night of it.
St. Charles County Home: Never Enough Christmas Lights
This St. Charles County House, shines bright with more than 71,000 lights, which, if stretched end-to-end, would stretch well over 4.2 miles. The lights, connected with more than 300 extension cords, take the homeowners around 18 days to assemble each year.
The 2024 season will mark their their 18th year of displays synchronizing Christmas lights and songs to create a spectacular display that attracts hundreds to St. Charles County each year, and have named their annual project “Never Enough Christmas Lights.”
The home at 607 Calamar Court is located off Highway N, across from the Wehrenberg Theater. Each year they collect donations for Hope Ministries Food Pantry which can be made by cash or online.
The show runs nightly Sunday through Thursday 5 pm to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to 11 pm, through New Year’s Eve.
Want a sneak peek? Check out this 2023 video from the last song of the show every night:
