Prestonwood Forest
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Prestonwood Forest Drive, off Highway 249 (near Exeter Dr & Champions Forest Dr, Houston, TX 77069), Houston, Texas
When: December 13-31, 2025 (Nite of Lites)
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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One of North Houston's most popular free light destinations, where entire streets coordinate around themes for the neighborhood's annual Nite of Lites. The community has run decorating competition categories since the 1980s.
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
- Christmas Village at Bayou Bend
- Deck the Hall
- Lights in the Heights
- River Oaks Christmas Lights
- Shepherd Park
- Uptown Holiday Lights (Post Oak Boulevard)
- Woodland Heights / The Heights
Make a night of it. This is stop 8 on our 15-stop Houston lights loop — about 29.6 miles and 131 minutes of driving in total.