Lake Forest Neighborhood
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Lake Forest, Louisville, KY 40245, Louisville, Kentucky
When: typically late Nov – early Jan (check before visiting)
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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Louisvillians have driven through this large East End neighborhood for decades to see its holiday lights. Hundreds of homes are traditionally decorated each season.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Louisville is around 4:23 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 4:53 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 24°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 8 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 36 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Christmas Lights at Wetherby Park
- First Baptist Church Middletown Christmas Lights
- Light Up Anchorage
- Light Up Middletown
- City of Douglass Hills Christmas in the Park
- Willow Forest Drive Display
- Notting Hill & Locust Creek
- Pewee Valley Light Up The Night Home Tour
Make a night of it. This is stop 16 on our 21-stop Louisville lights loop — about 221.5 miles and 616 minutes of driving in total.