2022 Holiday Lights Guide: Find the best Christmas lights in the Sacramento area

Editor’s note: The Bee independently verified the 2022 submissions. Addresses featured on the 2021 guide were not re-verified.

The holiday season isn’t complete without some mesmerizing lights and hot chocolate.

Homes across the Sacramento area are sharing their holiday cheer with dazzling light displays, fun inflatables and music. Several families are also taking it up a notch — ornamenting their houses with interactive set-ups, snow machines and hot chocolate stands.

Here’s The Bee’s annual guide to the best holiday lights. This list is based on submissions sent in from our readers.

Not on the list? You can still submit your home or favorite to be added here or in the form below.

Sacramento

East Sacramento Fab 40s

From 40th to 49th, between J and Folsom: Take a stroll or drive through the famous East Sacramento neighborhood to find twinkling lights, elaborate displays and a glimpse of the horse drawn carriage.

Curtis Park

3063 Donner Way: Here, you’ll find 11,000 lights and handmade wooden decorations, including Santa’s workshop and a nativity scene. The owner “spends all year perfecting his Christmas masterpiece.”

Hollywood Park

2213 23rd Avenue: There are 25,000 LED lights strung up at this home, with a Santa sleigh and fun ski lift. You might catch Santa and Mrs. Claus on the weekends.

Greenhaven

79 Northlite Circle: A nod to the movie “A Christmas Story,” this home features a full-size leg lamp, and lights galore.

The Pocket

7296 Riverwind Way: This home has a lawn filled with “wall to wall inflatables” and a rooftop display.

Golf Course Terrace

2174 56th Avenue: Think “midcentury Christmas nostalgia,” according to the submission. Decorations are set from the 1950s, featuring nativities, Santa’s sleigh and his reindeer, carolers, and classic holiday characters, such as Rudolph and the Grinch.

Natomas Park

Java Court: Houses in Java Court and Rockmont Circle community are displaying through-out lights and decorations. This includes sidewalks strung with lights, a candy land-decorated house and inflatables.

Arden Arcade

3033 Bertis Drive

Rosemont

9224 Carla Way: Find the magic of Christmas here with its “tens of thousands” of lights, synchronized music, a 20-foot tree and inflatables. You can drive by and tune into 100.7 FM to enjoy the lights and music show, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays, and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays to Saturdays. The last day is New Year.

Fair Oaks

5690 Rolling Oak Dr.: This home features interactive displays, including Santa’s house, where you can peak inside to see his factory, a candy land and Santa’s sleigh shop. There’s also a life-sized sleigh and manger — perfect for photos with your family.

Citrus Heights

8246 Moss Oak Ave.: Here, you’ll find homemade 10-foot candy cane poles strung together with lights, inflatables and a Christmas tree lot made with wooden cut-out of trees. “The Simpson family enjoys putting up the lights every year always trying to create (something) new for the next year,” the submission stated.

6617 Golden Rain Court

7131 Karen Rae Court

Antelope

8213 Rockbury Way: There are more than 100 snowmen at this house, “of all shapes and sizes,” as well as a scene of the Northpole, more than 10,000 lights and Christmas trees.

Roseville

8614 Tapaderas Loop

1300 Plymouth Court: At this home, you’ll see the Grinch as your Starbucks barista, a Gingerbread land archway and holiday music. You can “see it from space!,” the submission says.

1314 Avenida Alvarado

1647 Alnwick Drive

Rancho Cordova

10625 Lambrusca Drive: Santa is visiting this home every evening starting Dec. 17.

Folsom

1027 Hildebrand Circle: Think “all things Disney.” There are cut-outs of Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Goofy and more.

Elk Grove

3316 Lake Terrace Drive: More than 120,000 lights are strung up at this house and its synced to music. There’s also a snow machine, for when weather permits, and hot cocoa and cookies in the evening on Dec. 17 and Christmas Eve.

9720 Great Egret Court: For the 15th year, this house is decorated to the hilt. This year, Harry Potter and the gang make an appearance along with lots of animals from pigs to hedgehogs. There’s also a new sushi bar scene with Santa. The star for kids is a huge hugging teddy bear that actually hugs you.

More holiday lights in the Sacramento area

Since publishing this guide on Dec. 10, we got more submissions from residents, sharing their home’s holiday cheer. See below for more houses in the Sacramento area that have a light display.

Some of the submissions were featured on the 2021 Holiday Lights guide and were not re-verified. The latest submissions with an *asterisk have not been verified by The Bee.

• 53rd and S Street - Sacramento*

• Second & K streets - Sacramento*

• 4464 Edison Avenue - Arden Arcade*

• 8486 Mainstay Court - Elk Grove

• 104 Thorndike Way - Folsom

• 7600 Farmgate Way - Citrus Heights

• 9356 Oak Avenue - Orangevale*

• 1944 Ellesmere Loop - Roseville*

• 437 Anacapa Drive - Roseville*

• 1385 Jacoby Creek Court - Plumas Lake*

• 910 Tufts Place - Woodland*

City and community lights

• Placerville City of Lights, El Dorado
• Merriment on Main, Vacaville
• Rancho Cordova Lights Drive, Rancho Cordova
• Tree at Carmichael Park, Carmichael
• California Capitol Christmas Tree, Sacramento
• Downtown Davis Holiday Tree, Davis
• Roseville Christmas Tree, Roseville
• Holiday in the Park at Arden Arcade, Arden Arcade
• Historic Folsom Christmas Tree, Folsom
• Light up Lodi, Lodi
• Christmas Tree at Fair Oaks Park, Fair Oaks
• El Dorado Hills Christmas Tree, El Dorado Hills
• Fulton-El Camino Christmas Tree, Sacramento
• Annual Tree, Christa McAuliffe Park, Cameron Park
• Imaginarium, Cal Expo, 1600 Exposition Blvd, Sacramento.

This story was originally published December 10, 2022 at 5:00 AM.