Christmas Village at Bayou Bend
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, Museum District, Houston, Texas
When: December 5-30, 2025
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
14-acre lit estatesleddingcotton snowballsreindeer huntphoto opssensory-friendly nightsattraction
The 14-acre Bayou Bend estate glows with thousands of lights and offers sledding, cotton snowball play, a reindeer hunt, and photo spots. Designated sensory-friendly nights are offered during the run.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Houston is around 5:24 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:50 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 46°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 12 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 14 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Briargrove
- Deck the Hall
- Lights in the Heights
- Prestonwood Forest
- River Oaks Christmas Lights
- Shepherd Park
- Uptown Holiday Lights (Post Oak Boulevard)
- Woodland Heights / The Heights
Make a night of it. This is stop 5 on our 15-stop Houston lights loop — about 29.6 miles and 131 minutes of driving in total.