Garden of Lights
$8–$14attractionwalk-throughticketedsanta
A half-mile of the Gardens on Spring Creek covered nearly edge to edge in lights, with Santa nightly and live entertainment on select nights.
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Christmas lights in Fort Collins, Colorado
We track 1 display in Fort Collins.
When to go
Displays here switch on around sunset. In Fort Collins that means about 4:34 PM in early December and 4:34 PM by mid-month — the earliest sunsets of the year fall right in the middle of lights season. It is properly dark by about 5:05 PM, which is when the displays look their best. December nights in Fort Collins typically drop to around 12°F.
| Date | Sunset | Fully dark |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 1 | 4:34 PM | 5:04 PM |
| Dec 15 | 4:34 PM | 5:05 PM |
| Dec 25 | 4:39 PM | 5:10 PM |
Practicalities
Residential displays have no facilities of their own — no parking, no toilets, nowhere to warm up — so it is worth knowing what is around. Within about three miles of the Fort Collins cluster, OpenStreetMap maps 1 public car park and 15 public toilets. There is no shortage of cafés and takeaways for a hot drink on the way round.
All 1 display in Fort Collins
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