Driving around town to find the best light display has always been one of my favorite Christmas traditions. My parents drove us around every year of my childhood and my husband and I have been doing the same with our kids for the last 15 years. Always – always – with The Carpenters playing in the background (my Christmas playlist is long, but Karen Carpenter will always take the top spot). Holiday decorations have changed (a lot!) since the ’80s and the Knoxville area has some amazing light displays that you just shouldn’t miss!
Below is a list of some of our favorites and a link to a map so you can plan out your holiday tour for all the Knoxville Christmas lights. If you know of other locations, please leave a comment – we’ll be adding to this list throughout December!
My family also added a new tradition last year – a Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt. We’re slightly competitive and had a blast trying to check off all of the items on our list. I’m sharing this Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt printable with you and hope that you enjoy adding this fun tradition to your holiday season!
Knoxville Christmas Lights and Surrounding Areas
Download your free printable – and enjoy!
Boyd Family Christmas Light Show
1936 Winter Winds Lane
West Hills Christmas Light Show
7008 Hampshire Drive
West Knoxville Light Show
11617 Foxford Drive
Wonderful Lights of Woodshire
1211 E. Woodshire Drive
Johnson Christmas Lights
4901 Fragrant Cloud Lane
Loveday Christmas Light Show
4321 Roaming Road
Old North Knoxville
One of my favorites – gorgeous older homes decorated to the nines – with their annual Holiday Home Tour coming up December 3rd – 4th.
Gray Eagle Lane (off of Bob Gray Road)
2908 Cross Valley Road
1818 Canby Hills Road
Bryce Garrin Way, Powell
10875 US-11, Lenoir City
If you’ve ever driven down Kingston Pike past Watt Road, into Lenoir City, you’ve seen this one! Gorgeous display.
The Trout House
312 Country Lane
Loudon, TN 37774
200 Oologila Place, Loudon
139 Coyatee Circle, Loudon
3421 Ardennes Drive, Maryville
Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland
3540 Line Drive (Smokies Stadium)
November 4 – January 8
Christmas in Chilhowee
3301 E. Magnolia Avenue
Drive-through lights are up throughout December
Tree lighting with live music and free activities will be held on December 9 from 6 – 9pm.
Campbell Station Park
405 N. Campbell Station Road
December 1 – 31
Holiday Festival of Lights at the Cove
11808 S. Northshore Drive
December 17 – 31
Window Wonderland
Various downtown locations
November 25 – January 8
Downtown Knoxville will turn into a Peppermint Trail with windows of restaurants and merchants decorated with the peppermint theme. Merchants and restaurants will also have peppermint items for sale!
Secret City’s Atomic Lights
108 Capital Circle Oak Ridge, TN 37830
Here’s a link to a google map of the above list – we’ll add to it and to this list as we find out about more light displays.
Also if you are heading down south to Chattanooga check out our Sister Site’s Round up!
About Raven
Hi! I’m Raven, an East TN native and UT grad. I could color in a good coloring book for hours, I love to find and paint “well-loved” furniture and I just adore pretty things. In my 14 years of marriage to David, I have experienced just about every work/home balance possible and currently work full-time in a fantastic position that allows me the flexibility to (try to) make it all work. Having tweens/teens is a lot like having a newborn – everything is new again, there are lots of opinions, and there is definitely no official guidebook. I’ll be sharing our stories from this phase of life and look forward to connecting with other moms who are in this super-fun/emotional/totally-nutso stage, too.
6521 Spring View Lane, Knoxville, TN, 37918. This is my brother’s house. It’s a light show synchronized to music. He used to be in Pisa Circle in Corryton– in case anyone saw it then.
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Check out the house in Karns in stoneridge subdivision. It has thousands of lights and great
We use this list every year for our minivan express. One of our family highlights every Christmas. My kids are now 7 and 8 and this is going to be our 6th annual minivan express. We go tonight, so very happy to see the great map this year and we are going to try and hit as many of these as we can! Thanks so much for always posting these light displays for us to use. We are so lucky to have this out there for easy use. Santa needs all the help he can get these days! Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season!
St James Lane, Clinton TN…2 synchronized light shows that are very nice…worth a drive.
Do you know of any limo services that are reasonable to take a couple of families out to these areas?
Twin Lakes in Lenoir City is reasonable I believe!
Know of any places in the pigeon forge area?
Can’t even begin to thank you enough for putting this together. We’re planning an outing tomorrow — with the scavenger hunt! — and this is going to be so convenient.
We have a synchronized light show at 929 Oak Haven Rd, Knoxville, TN
7 songs total (22 min, 45 sec)
Show runs 6-10:30pm (Mondays- Thursdays and Sundays) and 6pm-11:30 pm Fridays and Saturdays) Tune to 93.7FM
Last day of show will be January 6th.
* We cannot run a show if it’s raining*
401 Hamilton Road
Knoxville 37920
Colonial Village off of Chapman Highway