We track 1 display in Tigard. Every one of them is free to visit.
When to go
Displays here switch on around sunset. In Tigard that means about 4:30 PM in early December and 4:29 PM by mid-month — the earliest sunsets of the year fall right in the middle of lights season. It is properly dark by about 5:03 PM, which is when the displays look their best. December nights in Tigard typically drop to around 36°F.
Date
Sunset
Fully dark
Dec 1
4:30 PM
5:03 PM
Dec 15
4:29 PM
5:03 PM
Dec 25
4:33 PM
5:07 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 Tigard cluster, OpenStreetMap maps 0 public car parks and 18 public toilets. There is no shortage of cafés and takeaways for a hot drink on the way round.
Typically Thanksgiving night - December 31 · Sunset to 9:30 pm Sun-Thu, until 10:30 pm Fri-Sat
Freeresidential30,000 lightsanimated light show synchronized to holiday songs
A Tigard home runs an animated show of roughly 30,000 lights synchronized to multiple holiday songs. The display runs nightly from dusk, staying on an hour later on Friday and Saturday nights.