2024’s Best Christmas Lights: 150+ Magical Displays & Driving Routes

Plan Your West Michigan Christmas Lights Adventure!

Pack up the family for a magical winter tradition – we’ve mapped over 150 (mostly free) of the best Christmas lights all over West Michigan. From simple lights to huge musical shows you can walk through – and most are totally free.

Make it easy:

  • Use our map to find Christmas light displays near you
  • Type in what you want to see in our searchable list
  • Follow our driving routes – we did all the planning
  • Find everything from decorated homes to full light shows

Christmas Light Displays Map

* if you see a number, there’s multiple houses there. Zoom in for exact addresses.

Ready-Made Christmas Light Routes

Looking for Christmas lights driving routes? GRKIDS Christmas Lights Routes 2024 are here!

Skip the planning – we mapped out the best Christmas light displays for you! Perfect for date night or loading up the family for some holiday fun.

Best Christmas Lights List for West Michigan


👀 See “STATUS” on each listing to know if we’ve confirmed it’s up for 2024.
Spot one that’s ready for visitors? (add/confirm houses here)

Ready to see the lights?
Type in what you want to see in our searchable list below.


Enjoy the Christmas Lights in Downtown Grand Rapids

Downtown Grand Rapids is lit up and pretty spectacular this time of year! You can drive and see the lights, but even more fun is taking a short walk with your family. A popular spot is the lights along Monroe Center, from the Children’s Museum down to Rosa Parks Circle.

Here you’ll see the city’s majestic Christmas tree and happy holiday-goers ice skating at the Rosa Parks Circle rink.

Christmas light displays in downtown Grand Rapids include the massive Christmas tree.
Photo courtesy of the City of Grand Rapids.

Ice skating at Rosa Parks is really fun. They have skate rentals and also walkers for those just learning to skate.

Continue your Christmas lights experience with a walk down Pearl toward the Amway Grand Plaza. The JW Marriott is dazzling in blue and the riverwalk is pretty, too.

Cross the bridge and head over to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum to see more lights along the water. If the museum is open, you could even head in to see their holiday train display (free to see train, admission required for museum).

Photo courtesy of the City of Grand Rapids.

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96 thoughts on “2024’s Best Christmas Lights: 150+ Magical Displays & Driving Routes”

  1. In past years you could click on the map and it would give you an option to use it in the Google Maps app. So you could see all the stops within the Google Maps app instead of on this website. Is that an option still? It was very useful.

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      Hello!

      If you click on the map where it says Google (near the bottom left), it should connect to the Maps app. Hope this helps!

  2. Great work finding all these lights. Plugged a route into my GPS for Cascade area from 96 at Heidi’s, it was amazing. 1 you don’t have, but need to is the excavating and landscaping business on Cascade that has over 100 inflatable Christmas decorations, and you can drive through part of it. Thank you for making our holidays bright on our trip north from Tennessee.

  3. Grandville United Methodist Church (3140 Wilson SW) has a new light show called The Light of Christmas. It’s awesome and runs 5-9 pm every night December 2-January 7!

  4. We added Grandville UMC last week but it has not been posted yet (12-minute Light Show, 6,000 Lights). It premieres tonight (21/2) 6-8pm and runs 5-9pm through Jan 6. Thanks!

  5. 2 of the houses on this list we went to and they had no Christmas lights up. 1053 Otilla SE and 3704 Giddings SE. neither of those have any lights

  6. We drove past Impact church in Lowell multiple times on Sunday between 5:30-6:30 and there were no lights going. Seems they aren’t doing their show this year.

  7. The light display at 84 10 Mile Rd NE, Comstock Park, MI 49321 is amazing!!! So much to look at and beautifully done!

    No lights at 2460 Bristolwood Dr NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49544 (this one was not on the printed list, but was on the map)

    Also, not much to see at 2809 Valley Ave NW, Walker, MI 49544 (again, wasn’t on the printed list, but is still on the map)

    Thanks grkids- we always appreciate this list!!

  8. Please add 3245 34th st Grandville Mi to your list of Christmas lights. We have a nice traditional display with approximately 3500 lights when you add up all of the lights on the house, in the bushes throughout the yard and the figurines. We have submitted photos of our display requesting it be added to your list.
    Thank you

  9. No display set up:
    11461 Foreman St SE Lowell
    1415 Baywicke Dr SE Lowell

    One Santa light up playing basketball, not really a light display
    11463 Barnsley Rd SE Lowell

    Cool lights but no where to pull over!
    11395 Foreman St SE Lowell

    Great Display (confirmed/already on the map)
    11336 Trent St SE Lowell

  10. 313 n Washington st lowell MI
    Lights, inflatables, music set to 107.9, giant Christmas ornament over sidewalk changes colors once a week.

  11. 313 n Washington st lowell mi

    Plenty of lights, inflatables, and lights set to music tune to 107.9.
    5pm to 11:30 PM. Featuring a 16.5 foot tall christmas ornament over the sidewalk.
    Lights run Thanksgiving night through new years.

  12. The house you have listed in Ada moorings the addresses are flipped. The house with lights set to music is 974. The house with all the inflatables is 937

  13. My fam & I drove around and did 15 of the houses tonight! 🙂 Both 2633 Dixie Ave and 2024 Johanna Ave didn’t have anything. Mooring Drive and Whitburn Drive didn’t have much going on either. Also the Ada covered bridge was not lit up yet. Otherwise great listings! Thank you for putting this together!

  14. 198 West Ferney’s Ave in Clarksville is lit again this year after a couple of years with a much smaller display. It is bigger than before, with over 20,000 lights and lots of holiday “stuff” to see on a corner lot in town.. Lights will be on every night until after midnight through Dec 26 and until at least 10 PM through the New Year.

  15. I’d like to add 1959 Rondo St in Kentwood. I have a light show running synced to music and you can listen on the radio on 88.3 every night from 5pm to 10pm.

  16. Woodhill Ct in Wyoming ( 52nd and Burlingame) has a couple good houses across from each other…big inflatables.

  17. John in Clarksville

    Our alligator didn’t get mentioned this year. Gonna have to step up our game! Look for us to do things bigger and better next year….

  18. Music syncronized lighting display at 7975 Verona Dr SW Byron Center, MI 49315. Sun-Thurs 6-9pm, Fri- Sat 6-10. 90.5FM. Also collecting donations for Hand2Hand.

  19. You can remove the house on Eldora Ct. in Byron Center – the house has been under new ownership for at least a few years and there is no longer a display there.

  20. Hi! Under the NE Grand Rapids list, you can remove the house on the corner of Pine Meadows & Blanca (Sierra Estates). 🙂 We bought that house this spring and while we enjoy decorating for Christmas, it’s not even close to the extent that the former owners decorated it. Thank you!

  21. Hi GR Kids team,

    We have changed the radio station to 94.1 FM for the 5811 Sage River Ct. SW/Sage River Holiday Lights listing in Grandville/Hudsonville/Jenison/Wyoming area.

    Thanks1

    1. 84th and Kalamazoo Ave schoolhouse display has 45000 lights on 30foot pines around the 1890 school. Quite a sight.

  22. 4231 Pineway Dr. SW in Grandville is covered in more than 22,000 lights including a dancing tunnel of lights over driveway, sign offering Love, Joy, and Peace, juggling snowman, winking and waving gingerbread boy, toy soldier actually looks like he is drumming, full size nativity, singing squirrel in the tree, 20ft train with moving smoke, stars shooting to the sky, swinging bell, and a rooftop sign wishing Merry Christmas to all. This display has 160 channels of animation set to music. The show runs from 5:15 to 11:30PM and includes 3 songs running approx 10 minutes.

  23. The display in the 600 block of Macomb Ave in Standale is still there. The modern music and synchronized lights were awesome!

  24. 48 Carrie st in Sparta tomorrow night is the last night for Santa from 8 pm till 10 pm then he’s back to the north pole

  25. If your looking to find some great Christmas lights in Sparta please check out 108 Maple Street . We have About 3000 led lights

  26. 4695-4676 Rivera Ct SW, Grandville.

    14 houses decorated on a culdesac with several others lit up in the neighborhood. Worth the time to look at.

    1. Cute lights set to music at Greenridge Reality in Lowell on Main Street/Fulton! Every night until midnight thru December.

  27. 4695-4676 Rivera Ct SW, Grandville. Culdesac with every house (14) decorated for the holidays. About 1/2 are professionally done while the other 1/2 were done by the homeowners including the street light posts. Worth the drive!!

  28. 1369 Trevor CT NE, end of cul-de-sac near Plainfield and 4 mile. Several lighted displays, some with motion. Homemade displays, thousands of lights. From dusk to 9pm each night.

  29. The one across Lake Michigan Drive is on FAIRWAY and I can confirm it’s up and running (with Santa and a dragon) for 2018 🙂

  30. Jennifer Dallett

    There is one in Belmont on the corner of Rouge River and Woodwater Dr. that has inflatables and a huge nativity along with lights that dance to music. You have to put your windows down to listen to the music

  31. Hopkins MI – 2187 132nd Ave Hopkins MI 49328. Lights are synchronized with music. The show runs nightly 5:30pm to 1130pm, through January 12, 2019. Check them out on facebook – Veenstra Christmas Lights!

  32. Scott Meendering

    4231 Pineway Dr. SW is covered in more than 21,700 lights including a dancing tunnel of lights over driveway, sign offering Love, Joy, and Peace, juggling snowman, winking and waving gingerbread boy, toy soldier actually looks like he is drumming, full size nativity, singing squirrel in the tree, 20ft train with moving smoke, stars shooting to the sky, swinging bell, and a rooftop sign wishing Merry Christmas to all. This display has 160 channels of animation set to music. The show runs from 5:15 to 11:30PM and includes 3 songs running approx 10 minutes.

  33. Too early for 2018? 2024 Johanna Ave Wyoming, MI 49509… Tune car to 107.7FM and sing along with “Will; The singing Christmas House”. Lights and music show nightly with clasic AND modern songs for all ages to enjoy.

    Shows run from 6:30pm-10pm daily.

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