[CelticLady]

Where's the best place in your neck of the woods to see a holiday display? A lot of us will be traveling during the holiday season - tell us what's cool about your town, maybe we'll be visiting in your area!

If you're coming to Colorado Springs, make sure you visit the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Winter WildLand! The lights at Seven Falls are always pretty! And the Broadmoor Hotel has the BEST Christmas lights and decorations! If you're here over New Year's, attend the First Night party downtown!

[Smiles]

Portland's classics that I know of are the Portland International Raceway (you drive along the racetrack viewing light displays), the David Cole Queen Anne Victorian Mansion, and Peacock Lane, an older neighborhood of neo-Bavarian style homes all decorated up in a vintage style.

[Ro]

Temple Square in Salt Lake City is world-famouos for it's lighting display. I decided to look it up and found some pretty pictures that were meant to be used as desktops. I decided to make myself a scrapped desktop with both of them so I could show you. I uploaded it in the gallery.

[CRS]

There is one neighborhood in a neighboring town(Gates, in Rochester, NY) that has lights on almost every house. On the weekends, Santa stands in his driveway and gives out candy canes to the children. In the back of the neighborhood, there are two teenagers that make the best popcorn! They sell that and hot chocolate, too. It's become the best place to see lights. Oh, and on the way there, we pass a house with lights set to music.

And, while you are in the neighborhood, the Garden Factory has a wonderful train display, light show, kiddie carnival rides, alpachas and crafts for the kids. It's so much fun!

[lorac]

No place can beat New York City at Christmastime. Everywhere you look there are lights, Christmas Trees, Ice Skaters, shoppers hustling and bustling along Manhattan's already overcrowded city streets and stores. It has the best Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall where thousands from all over the world come to visit every year. I just saw the show this past Monday and once again it was wonderful. The Nativity scene at the end of the show brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. It's just beautiful. The annual Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center is not to be missed. Saks Fifth Avenue can be seen from the promendade and this year the building is covered in gorgeous snowflakes and at 10 minute intervals the snowflakes start to flash in time with beautiful Christmas music.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street, right in front of Central Park, has a Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche that is incredible. It is a twenty-foot blue spruce—with a collection of eighteenth-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base.

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Saint Patrick's Cathedral displays it's traditional Nativity Scene and on Christmas Eve the Baby Jesus is placed in the Creche.

These are just some of the Christmas sights that New York has to offer.

[RosemaryS]

Ooooooooo just saw this thread, I've already been to ours, Macy's 8th floor "A year in the Life of an Elf" and then there's always the Hollydazzle parade every year too........