Dillsboro Lights & Luminaries
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Downtown Dillsboro, Dillsboro, North Carolina
When: December 5-6 and 12-13, 2025
Hours: Beginning at dusk
Cost: free
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For two December weekends, this Smoky Mountain town glows with thousands of luminaries and lights on its downtown businesses, with shopkeepers handing out goodies, live music, Santa, and nightly horse-and-buggy rides.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Dillsboro is around 5:22 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:50 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 27°F, so dress for standing around outside.