Christmas lights in Winter Park, Florida

We track 4 displays in Winter Park. Every one of them is free to visit.

When to go

Displays here switch on around sunset. In Winter Park that means about 5:28 PM in early December and 5:31 PM by mid-month — the earliest sunsets of the year fall right in the middle of lights season. It is properly dark by about 5:57 PM, which is when the displays look their best. December nights in Winter Park typically drop to around 52°F.

The Winter Park lights loop — 4 stops

We ordered every display in Winter Park into the shortest sensible driving loop: roughly 2.6 miles and 22 minutes of driving, before you count time spent parked and looking. Start wherever is closest to you and follow it round.

1. Elf'n Edwards Winter Wonderland — 7324 Blue Jacket Pl W
2. Park Avenue Holidays — Park Ave (Fairbanks to Webster) and New England Ave (Virginia to Capen)
3. Winter Park Lights on Waunaqua — 7510 Waunaqua Drive
4. 659 Greene Drive Display — 659 Greene Drive

Driving estimate assumes a 25 mph average on residential streets plus four minutes stopped per display. Straight-line distances with a road-network allowance — treat it as a planning figure, not a satnav route.

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 Winter Park cluster, OpenStreetMap maps 2 public car parks and 3 public toilets. There is no shortage of cafés and takeaways for a hot drink on the way round.

All 4 displays in Winter Park

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