Make Holiday Memories For Free At Canada’s Largest Free Light Festival

Are you one of those people who can't get enough Christmas lights when the season comes? You drive around from house to house to see them all? You're going to want to check out this event in Canada, and the best part is that it's completely free!

The Winter Festival Of Lights Is Back This Year

For 44 years now, Niagara Falls has been putting on this free outdoor light festival and they've announced that it's coming back this year. They call it the Winter Festival of Lights and it starts this Saturday (November 14th).

What: The Winter Festival of Lights

When: Saturday November 14th through January 10, 2027.

Where: The Queen Victoria Place Festival Hub, Niagara Falls, Canada

They will have opening night festivities including an opening ceremony where they will light their 50-foot Christmas tree, have live "festive entertainment," and family-friendly activities at the Queen Victoria Place Festival Hub. Santa Claus will be there, of course, along with the Misty Kids, stilt walkers, balloon twisters, live music and more.

This display is huge. It will feature more than three million twinkling lights in over 75 displays. It will continue straight through January 10, 2027.

These are the events that memories are made of

When you're making your plans this holiday season, your calendar is going to start to get pretty busy. You will have a million different things to fit in, and only a few weeks to get to them. But these are the things that leave lasting impressions for little kids.

I can't remember every single present that I got when I was little, but I definitely remember riding in the back of my grandparents' station wagon while we wolfed down peppermint patties on the way to Niagara Falls for the Festival of Lights with my siblings and my cousins. It's a memory that has lasted my whole life. It's not often that you can get memories like this that don't cost anything.

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