17 Holiday Events – Some Naughty, Some Nice – You Should Check Out Around Louisville

By on Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:08 pm

Thanksgiving marks the start of the winter holiday season, so, naturally, there are plenty of events coming up in and around Louisville (and one as far north as Indianapolis) that we think sound cool.

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17 Holiday Events – Some Naughty, Some Nice – You Should Check Out Around Louisville
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Lights Under Louisville 1841 Taylor Ave. Nov. 11 - Jan. 1 Louisville Mega Cavern’s annual drive-through light show is back. There are reportedly “nearly 6,000,000 points of light that will spread mega cheer and holiday spirit this season,” according to the event page. Photo via facebook.com/louisvillemegacavern

Lights Under Louisville

1841 Taylor Ave.
Nov. 11 - Jan. 1
Louisville Mega Cavern’s annual drive-through light show is back. There are reportedly “nearly 6,000,000 points of light that will spread mega cheer and holiday spirit this season,” according to the event page.
Photo via facebook.com/louisvillemegacavern
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Light Up Louisville Locations vary; click header for more info Friday, Nov. 25, 3-10 p.m. Santa Claus and Mayor Fischer will light the city Christmas tree together. There’ll also be a parade (led by none other than Frosty the Snowman), live music, holiday vendors, and fireworks. Photo via facebook.com/AroundLou

Light Up Louisville

Locations vary; click header for more info
Friday, Nov. 25, 3-10 p.m.
Santa Claus and Mayor Fischer will light the city Christmas tree together. There’ll also be a parade (led by none other than Frosty the Snowman), live music, holiday vendors, and fireworks.
Photo via facebook.com/AroundLou
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Light Up St. Matthews 1000 Browns Lane Saturday, Dec. 3, 3-6 p.m. The culmination of this event is actually the best part: trees at Brown Park will light up and stay lit every night, even after New Year’s Day. Before that, though, the event will have free cookies and hot chocolate, plus live music, ice skating, pictures with Santa, train rides, and more. Photo via facebook.com/lightupstmatthews

Light Up St. Matthews

1000 Browns Lane
Saturday, Dec. 3, 3-6 p.m.
The culmination of this event is actually the best part: trees at Brown Park will light up and stay lit every night, even after New Year’s Day. Before that, though, the event will have free cookies and hot chocolate, plus live music, ice skating, pictures with Santa, train rides, and more.
Photo via facebook.com/lightupstmatthews
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Lights on Main 615 W. Main St. Friday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Dec. 11 Local businesses, organizations, families and individuals have decorated trees for this fundraiser event, which is free to guests. Judges will pick the best trees in several categories: “Best Branding,” “Judges’ Favorite,” “Most Unique,” “Most Festive,” and “Most Lou Spirit.” Photo from screenshot on I Would Rather Be Reading

Lights on Main

615 W. Main St.
Friday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Dec. 11
Local businesses, organizations, families and individuals have decorated trees for this fundraiser event, which is free to guests. Judges will pick the best trees in several categories: “Best Branding,” “Judges’ Favorite,” “Most Unique,” “Most Festive,” and “Most Lou Spirit.”
Photo from screenshot on I Would Rather Be Reading
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Winter Woods Spectacular 1080 Amphitheater Rd. Friday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Jan. 1 This walk-through (formerly drive-through) experience is now car-free, so you can look at seasonal themed displays as holiday music plays behind you. Photo via facebook.com/winterwoodsspectacular

Winter Woods Spectacular

1080 Amphitheater Rd.
Friday, Nov. 25 - Sunday, Jan. 1
This walk-through (formerly drive-through) experience is now car-free, so you can look at seasonal themed displays as holiday music plays behind you.
Photo via facebook.com/winterwoodsspectacular
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Light Up Valley Station Deering Road and Valley Station Road Sunday, Dec. 4, 5-7 p.m. Meet Santa (or write letters to him), then watch him flip the switch to turn thousands of Christmas lights on. You can also drink hot chocolate, decorate cookies and ornaments, and shop Christmas candy at Jiggs. Photo via facebook.com/Valley.News.Now

Light Up Valley Station

Deering Road and Valley Station Road
Sunday, Dec. 4, 5-7 p.m.
Meet Santa (or write letters to him), then watch him flip the switch to turn thousands of Christmas lights on. You can also drink hot chocolate, decorate cookies and ornaments, and shop Christmas candy at Jiggs.
Photo via facebook.com/Valley.News.Now
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Light Up Fairdale Festival & Parade 2022 10714 W. Manslick Rd. Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. (approx.), parade lineup ends at 3:15 p.m., parade starts at 4 p.m., tree lighting countdown at 5:45 Watch (or take part in) the parade, meet Santa, ride a kid-sized train, eat cookies, sing carols, and learn about the original Christmas story. Photo via facebook.com/Christmasinfairdale

Light Up Fairdale Festival & Parade 2022

10714 W. Manslick Rd.
Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. (approx.), parade lineup ends at 3:15 p.m., parade starts at 4 p.m., tree lighting countdown at 5:45
Watch (or take part in) the parade, meet Santa, ride a kid-sized train, eat cookies, sing carols, and learn about the original Christmas story.
Photo via facebook.com/Christmasinfairdale
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Light Up La Grange Various locations Saturday, Dec. 3, 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. There’ll be a very full day of activity throughout La Grange, which will include breakfast with Santa, a meet-and-greet with the Grinch, a winter market with local vendors, activities for kids, concerts from the Oldham County Community Band and Oldham County Middle School Band, performances by local choirs, candy cane making, the public unveiling of the sculpture “Hope Springs Eternal,” and more. Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive on a firetruck, then they’ll help light up downtown La Grange. Photo via facebook.com/LaGrangeKYMainStreetProgram

Light Up La Grange

Various locations
Saturday, Dec. 3, 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.
There’ll be a very full day of activity throughout La Grange, which will include breakfast with Santa, a meet-and-greet with the Grinch, a winter market with local vendors, activities for kids, concerts from the Oldham County Community Band and Oldham County Middle School Band, performances by local choirs, candy cane making, the public unveiling of the sculpture “Hope Springs Eternal,” and more. Santa and Mrs. Claus will arrive on a firetruck, then they’ll help light up downtown La Grange.
Photo via facebook.com/LaGrangeKYMainStreetProgram
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A Dickens Christmas Festival 955 Elm St., Eminence Dec. 3, 4, 10, 11, 12:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Mirth and merriment will abound at this Dickensian festival, whose grounds you may have seen at the Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival’s Faire’s summer events. There will be live scenes from the eponymous short story, food and drink, vendors, and artists. Photo via facebook.com/krfeminence

A Dickens Christmas Festival

955 Elm St., Eminence
Dec. 3, 4, 10, 11, 12:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Mirth and merriment will abound at this Dickensian festival, whose grounds you may have seen at the Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival’s Faire’s summer events. There will be live scenes from the eponymous short story, food and drink, vendors, and artists.
Photo via facebook.com/krfeminence
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Light Up Shepherdsville 2022 First Street Park, 1100-1224 W. 1st St., Shepherdsville Saturday, Dec. 3, 5-9 p.m., parade at 6 p.m. Check out vendors and food trucks before you watch a parade, which will be followed by Santa arriving on a fire truck. Photo via Light up Shepherdsville 2022/Facebook

Light Up Shepherdsville 2022

First Street Park, 1100-1224 W. 1st St., Shepherdsville
Saturday, Dec. 3, 5-9 p.m., parade at 6 p.m.
Check out vendors and food trucks before you watch a parade, which will be followed by Santa arriving on a fire truck.
Photo via Light up Shepherdsville 2022/Facebook
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Bardstown Road Aglow Bardstown Road, Barret Ave., Baxter Ave.; tree lighting at 1108 Bardstown Road Saturday, Dec. 3, 12-10 p.m. On the Highlands’ busiest shopping day of the year, Santa will join WAVE3 personalities to light up a Christmas tree at a Wendy’s. Also, many of the neighborhood businesses will have special discounts. Photo via facebook.com/BardstownRoadAglow

Bardstown Road Aglow

Bardstown Road, Barret Ave., Baxter Ave.; tree lighting at 1108 Bardstown Road
Saturday, Dec. 3, 12-10 p.m.
On the Highlands’ busiest shopping day of the year, Santa will join WAVE3 personalities to light up a Christmas tree at a Wendy’s. Also, many of the neighborhood businesses will have special discounts.
Photo via facebook.com/BardstownRoadAglow
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Christmas Gift & Decor Show 937 Phillips Ln. Dec. 9-11 It’s free to get into this show (and to take a photo with Santa if you’re a kid), but you may want to plan to do some shopping — there’ll be more than 600 vendor booths. Photo via facebook.com/louisvillechristmasgiftshow

Christmas Gift & Decor Show

937 Phillips Ln.
Dec. 9-11
It’s free to get into this show (and to take a photo with Santa if you’re a kid), but you may want to plan to do some shopping — there’ll be more than 600 vendor booths.
Photo via facebook.com/louisvillechristmasgiftshow
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Christmas Chaos at Malice Manor 640 Providence Way, Clarksville, IN Friday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 10 Haunted houses aren’t only for Halloween. This one transforms into a Christmas-themed attraction for only two nights. Photo via facebook.com/Malicemanor

Christmas Chaos at Malice Manor

640 Providence Way, Clarksville, IN
Friday, Dec. 9 and Saturday, Dec. 10
Haunted houses aren’t only for Halloween. This one transforms into a Christmas-themed attraction for only two nights.
Photo via facebook.com/Malicemanor
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Krampusnacht Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site Saturday, Dec. 17, 7-11 p.m. Here’s another Halloween attraction repurposed for the season: Literally, A Haunted House at the Culbertson Mansion will take on a Krampus theme in honor of the mythical Christmastime demon-goat. Photo via facebook.com/HauntedCulbertson

Krampusnacht

Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site Saturday, Dec. 17, 7-11 p.m.
Here’s another Halloween attraction repurposed for the season: Literally, A Haunted House at the Culbertson Mansion will take on a Krampus theme in honor of the mythical Christmastime demon-goat.
Photo via facebook.com/HauntedCulbertson
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Light Up Charlestown! Friday, Nov. 25 Friday, Nov. 25, lights flipped on at 6:30 A young cancer patient will flip the switch on a 55-foot Christmas tree to officially begin this bright and colorful night. Photo via facebook.com/CharlestownChristmas

Light Up Charlestown!

Friday, Nov. 25
Friday, Nov. 25, lights flipped on at 6:30
A young cancer patient will flip the switch on a 55-foot Christmas tree to officially begin this bright and colorful night.
Photo via facebook.com/CharlestownChristmas
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Christmas in the Park Freeman Lake Park, Blue Heron Way, Elizabethtown Nov. 23 - Jan. 1 You can drive through this gigantic display of Christmas lights, which is free and reportedly draws over 80,000 guests each year. Photo from video screenshot via facebook.com/TourEtown

Christmas in the Park

Freeman Lake Park, Blue Heron Way, Elizabethtown Nov. 23 - Jan. 1
You can drive through this gigantic display of Christmas lights, which is free and reportedly draws over 80,000 guests each year.
Photo from video screenshot via facebook.com/TourEtown
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Winterlights 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN Sunday, Nov. 20 - Sunday, Jan. 8 You’ll actually have to drive to Indianapolis for this one, but you’ll get a gigantic walk-through experience that includes light-up flowers in the “Glowing Garden,” a “Nutcracker”-themed “Landscape of Light,” and more. Photo via facebook.com/newfieldstoday

Winterlights

4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis, IN
Sunday, Nov. 20 - Sunday, Jan. 8
You’ll actually have to drive to Indianapolis for this one, but you’ll get a gigantic walk-through experience that includes light-up flowers in the “Glowing Garden,” a “Nutcracker”-themed “Landscape of Light,” and more.
Photo via facebook.com/newfieldstoday
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