Holiday Light Tours 2011
Let us help you celebrate the 2011 holiday season, the following is a guide to the best of the area’s Christmas light displays and Tree Lighting dates and times.
National Harbor Christmas Events and ICE! at the National Gaylord Hotel
Opens November 18th 2011 – January 8th, 2012
November 25-December 11 (Friday through Sunday nights) and December 16th – January 1st 2012 (every night except Dec. 24, 25 and 31)
Alexandria Holiday Boat Parade of Lights
December 3rd
Festival of Lights at the Mormon Temple
TBA
Winter Lights at Seneca Creek State Park
November 25th and 26th, then nightly December 2nd – January 1st 2012
(Closed every Monday and December 25th)
Winter Festival of Lights at Watkins Regional Park
November 25th, 2011- January 1, 2012
Garden of Lights at Brookside Gardens
November 25th, 2011- January 8th, 2012
(Closed December 24th & 25th 2011 and January 2nd- 5th, 2012
TBA
November 23rd 2011 – January 8th, 2012
Symphony of Lights in Columbia
November 21st 2011 – January 1st 2012
Eastport Yacht Club Parade of Lights
December 10th, 2011
Lights on The Bay at Sandy Point State Park
November 19th, 2011 – January 1st, 2012
Miracle on 34th Street in Hampden
November 26th, 2011-January 1st, 2012
Annual Parade of Lighted Boats – Fell’s Point
TBA
Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies
Washington DC
National Christmas Tree Lighting
December 1st, 2011 – 5pm
Capitol Christmas Tree Lighting 
December 6th, 2011 – 6pm
Georgetown Christmas Tree Lighting
TBA
Norwegian Christmas at Union Station
December 1st, 2011-6.00pm
Christmas Tree Lighting at the Fairmount
November 30th, 2011 – 5.30pm
Maryland
National Harbor Christmas Tree Lighting
November 25th, 2011 – 5-7pm
TBA – 6.30-9pm
City of Gaithersburg’s Christmas Tree Lighting
December 3rd, 2011 6-8pm
Virginia
City of Alexandria’s Tree Lighting
November 25th, 2011 7-9pm
Reston Town Center Christmas Tree Lighting and Sing Along
November 25th, 2011 6pm
Manassas Christmas Tree Lighting
December 2nd 2011 – 6.30pm
Leesburg Christmas Tree Lighting
December 2nd, 2011 – 6pm



