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This list includes many
of the Lawrence Kansas Christmas light displays worth going out of your
way to see. Click on the photos for larger images or links to pages devoted
to the displays. Most of the photos on this page were taken in 2008, but
all of these locations were revisited and the reviews updated on November
28 or December 7, 2009.
Selection for this
page was subjective and I may have decided to leave off holiday displays
that someone else would have included. Or maybe I haven't see them yet.
Although I carefully researched where to find some of these, I stumbled
across a couple of these holiday light displays on the way to photograph
others.
Map
of the Lawrence Kansas Christmas Tour.
Please email
your suggestions of other Lawrence displays that you think belong here.
Lawrence
Kansas Christmas Light Displays
Massachusetts
Street Holiday Trees Map
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Every tree on Massachusetts
Street (the main street in Lawrence) between 6th Street and 11th Street
is covered with holiday lights. There are over 200 lighted trees in downtown
Lawrence. Massachusetts is a nice place to begin your Christmas
light tour, perhaps starting with supper at one of the many great locally
owned restaurants.
600-1100 Massachusetts
Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 |
Henderson
Family Christmas Display Map
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Betty Henderson's Christmas
light displays have been spectacular for several years. Due to difficulty
climbing this year, the display is less impressive in 2009, but still beautiful.
Longer
review
of the much larger Christmas display from 2008 with more photos & a
video f the shooting star.
4817 West 25th Street,
Lawrence, Kansas 66047 |
Boyd
Family Christmas Display Map
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This somewhat isolated
Boyd
Family Christmas Light Display is worth going out of your way to visit.
I like the repeated "Peace on Earth" theme and the large Santa in a sleigh.
There are a number of nice inflatables. When visited on November 28, only
about half of the lights were up, but Mr. Boyd was at work on the roof
- completing the 2009 display.
2311 Manchester Road,
Lawrence, Kansas 66049 |
Howe
Family Christmas Display Map
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The Howe Family Christmas
Light Display includes several thousand flashing lights set to music
that is played over a speaker. Be sure to continue up Pebble Lane to see
some of the other nicely decorated homes just north of of the Lee Howe's
animated sound and light program.
2920 Pebble Lane, Lawrence,
Kansas 66047 |
Parkside
Christmas Light Show Map
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Mary Ann and Gary Martin's
Parkside Christmas is the best known display in Lawrence. If you approach
from the north, there may be a long line of vehicles waiting for their
turn to watch the sound and light show. If you approach from the south,
there is usually no line. Tune your radio to 96.9FM to listen to the music
which is coordinated to the flashing lights. This display continues until
January 6th.
1132 Parkside Circle,
Lawrence, Kansas 66049 |
30th
Street Christmas Displays Map
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This neighborhood has
many nice holiday displays, but the two most elaborate ones are side by
side on West 30th Street. I particularly liked the lighted topiary trees
(one is shown in the photo at the top of this page) and the skiing polar
bears. This is just a few blocks east of the Howe Family display.
If you know more about
these displays, please email the
details.
2647 & 2701 West
30th Street, Lawrence, Kansas 66047 |
Ranchero
Drive Christmas Display Map
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I was blown away by this
large display which includes many cutout cartoon figures. The section at
the right where you see the snowmen lights has music coordinated to flashing
lights. Families pulling up to this display tended to get out of their
cars to see and hear better. Just south of 13th Street and west of Monterey
Way.
1320 Ranchero Drive,
Lawrence, Kansas 66049 |
Delaware
Street Christmas Display Map
J
This Delaware Street
Christmas Display is at the tip of a dead end where it isn't handy
to turn around. It contains at least 17 inflatable yard decorations, whose
air pumps roar away. My favorite item was an inflated ship with Santa Claus.
If you know more about
this display, please email the details.
1715 Delaware Street,
Lawrence, Kansas 66044 |
Wildwood
Dr & Woodridge DR Map
E
Six homes near the intersection
of Wildwood Drive and Woodridge Drive have combined to run white Christmas
lights in geometric patterns running from house to house and even over
the street. As you drive or walk, you are surrounded by the Christmas light
display.
If you know more about
this display, please email the details.
Wildwood & Woodridge
Drives, Lawrence, Kansas 66049 |
Stoltenberg
Animated Display Map
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Zachary Stoltenberg's
animated Christmas light display
is new for 2009. He has 7 different songs which play on low power FM, coordinated
to over 10,000 individual LEDs. On the night we viewed the display, there
was a lot of interference on the radio frequency and there was only one
spot in front of the home where we could clearly hear the program.
1208 New Jersey, Lawrence,
Kansas 66044 |
Garcia
Family Christmas Display Map
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Although this home on
Vantuyl Drive was the most impressive, there were several nice nearby displays,
including the house immediately adjacent. Vincent Garcia's display includes
recorded Christmas music and flashing lights. The holiday display is turned
on until about 10:30 on weeknights and 11:30 on the weekends. The lights
will be left up until about the 3rd or 4th of January, 2010.
1305 Vantuyl Drive,
Lawrence, Kansas 66049 |
Lindeen
& Musick Family Displays
These displays are 5 miles
east of Lawrence, just east of Church Street in Eudora. The adjacent Lindeen
and Musick families' homes have large Christmas displays including a small
sound and light program with the music being played through speakers. You
will also see two nicely decorated homes on Church Street near the turn
off to to 1300 Road. On December 15, a fire destroyed a craft building
at Merritt Musick's home and part of the display may no longer be showing.
2213 & 2215 North
1300 Road, Eudora, KS 66025 |
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Johnson County
North Christmas Display Tour
This route is about 18 miles and takes just under and hour to drive,
not including the time
spent viewing the displays. To add the two homes in Eudora, take 23rd
Street east.
23rd Street turns into K-10 at the Lawrence city limit.
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