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2016 HOLIDAY LIGHTS DISPLAYS!

Holiday Light Displays in & around Yorba Linda, Placentia, Fullerton & Anaheim Hills

By Julie Jensen, Publisher Macaroni Kid Orange-Tustin-Villa Park December 9, 2016
HOLIDAY LIGHTS DISPLAYS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS! In Yorba Linda, Placentia, Fullerton, Anaheim Hills and surrounding OC areas

This list, your car keys, some holiday music, and a little enthusiasm makes for a fun family outing!

The twinkle, colors, flashing and music, we all love to be amazed by the beauty of a wonderful Holiday Light Display. All shows are free, some are collecting donations for local charities to help others this season.

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 Yorba Linda 

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  • EastLake Village (Village Center Drive & Avenida De Las Polmas) There are 191 homes that sit upon the 15 acre lake, all decorated for the holiday season. 
  • The annual East Lake Village Boat Parade is Dec. 10th & 11th at 6:30pm
  • W. Oriente Drive (Lights set to music)
  • 18665 & 18974 Seabiscuit 
  • 4712 Via Del Rancho

Placentia 

444 Normany - Frozen themed house

Fullerton
East Nutwood Avenue from Yale to Raymond avenues; Sparkleballs dangle strung from house to house creating a winter fantasy land!

Brea

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  • Eagle Hills Christmas Lights, (Rose/Kramer/Starflower) running every night from the first weekend in December to New Year’s Day
  • 515 Cedar Avenue

 Orange

  • 100 and 200 block of North Pine Street Old Town Orange From Early December to New Year's Day, from sunset to about 9 p.m.
  • Viewers Choice Submission: 200 block of South Olive
  • 451 N. Citrus Street
  • Locust & Glassell
  • 7633 E. Saddlehill Trail
  • Viewers Choice Submission - 1767 N Lindenholz St -  house lights move to music!
  • 557 N La Nae Cir  *This is a completely computer controlled display set to music that plays through your cars FM radio.  Show consists of 8 songs, 4 traditional, 4 parody.  Around 20 minutes for whole show.  house is covered with RGB LED lights and can display almost any color.  Shows start Dec 1st through Christmas from 6-9pm daily

Tustin

  • Laburnum/Olwyn Drive- (Red Hill Ave/ Irvine Blvd)
  • 2351 Caper Tree Dr. - Tustin(off Tustin Ranch Rd/ Walnut ave.) Sunday-Thursday 5:30pm-10:30pm Fri & Sat 5:30pm-11:00pm Until Jan 6
  • Red Hill Avenue & Olwyn Drive
  •  Viewers Choice Submission: Photo credit owner,Alex John Franco III
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  • 1151 Windsor Ln Tustin - more details on Alex's light display -24,000+ bulbs. Runs dusk till 1:00 am daily from dec 1- through the new year. Light archways . Shooting star archways. Lasers ( very little) . Color spots. So many lights I spill onto my neighbors yards.
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Villa Park
  • Dry land boat parade Sunday December 11th, 5pm at the Towne Center . For holiday lights in VP area please submit the streets to us here. As a family we drive through every year after the boat parade and have our favorites. I will do my best to post the addresses after the boat parade this year. 
  • Corner of Vida/ Montana 
  • Cul-de-Sac of Jerome St  off Center/Edgewood - Great display with many blowups and Santa Sleigh suspended in the air 
  • Cul-De-Sac of Sycamore Circle - A personal family favorite. We love the home with the Santa and Reindeer Characters. 
  • Martinique Court - End of housing track, bend of Cul-de-sac has amazing beautiful light displays and a ferris wheel of fun filled Christmas characters.

Fountain Valley  

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  • 18323 Stanislaus Street A family in Fountain Valley created a Christmas lights show featuring over 65,542 programmable LED lights choreographed to about 40 songs which you can listen to from your car radio on 91.3FM. Lights run from dusk until 11pm.
  • 16559Euclid
    • Entire neighborhood at Mile Square park area. We have been going since children. My kids love this display. Walking through is amazing to see up close and personal and hot chocolate vendors and popcorn are available to buy.
Santa Ana 
  • 1306Richland Avenue
WORTH THE DRIVE 

 Aliso Viejo 

  • Bough Avenue (Nightmare Before Christmas House)

Mission Viejo  

  • 26152 Cordillera (Whoville House)
  • 23446 Bolivar Street
  • 27093 Pinario
  • Via Amistoso Street

Lake Forest 

  • 22981 Belquest Drive
  • Ashbrook Street
  • Buckwood
  • 24952 Greenbay Drive
  • Rimrock Street, Peachwood & Tamarisk (Trabuco Canyon & Lake Forest Drive)
  • Rushford Drive
  • 25141 Steinway Circle

Rancho Santa Margarita 

  • 22 El Corazon
  • 20 El Corzo (Candy Cane Land)
  • 11 Twilight Lane

San Clemente 

  • Talega Seaside Neighborhood
  • Talega Stella Mare Neighborhood

Long Beach  

  • Viewers Choice submission- Naples Area throughout, fun evening walk. Carolers, hot cocoa, great way to spend an evening 

You may also want to check out the following sites to list your own home and or find more areas as you visit friends and family through the holidays. Lights of the Valley and Christmas light finder.  

Huge thank you to Julie Jensen, Publisher of Macaroni Kid Orange-Tustin-Villa Park for sharing her awesome Holiday Lights Display article with me!

Now we need YOUR HELP!  Please share YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY LIGHT DISPLAYS - local and worth the drive - in the comments below. Thanks!