Sheely Family Lights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: 703 Ava Ct, Chesapeake, VA 23322, Chesapeake, Virginia
When: Typically opens the Friday after Thanksgiving
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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A residential display on a Chesapeake cul-de-sac that returns each year, traditionally lighting up around Thanksgiving weekend.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Chesapeake is around 4:50 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:19 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 36°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 8 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.
- Deck the Hall & Fa La La Land at Chesapeake City Hall
- Christmas in the Country at Triple R Ranch
- Burns Family Christmas Lights and Nativity
- Phillips Family Christmas Lights
- Scroggins Family Christmas
- Ledbetter's Holly Jolly Inflatable Christmas Extravaganza
- Priest Family Christmas (Christmas Palooza)
- Holt Family Lights
Make a night of it. This is stop 3 on our 11-stop Chesapeake lights loop — about 37 miles and 133 minutes of driving in total.