Every year Marshall Texas become a Christmas wonderland. The whole town is lighten up with colorful lights. The festival includes over one million lights and the town displays hundreds of Christmas light displays. The event begins Wednesday before Thanksgiving and it ends New Year’s Eve. The town will open an outdoor ice skating rink. The ice skating rink will be open through January 17.
The light display will be the biggest this year than any other year in the past. There will be Ice Dancing performances, celebrity chef cooking classes, a mini-express train ride, a 15 feet tall snow globe for people to take pictures in front of, street performers, and even a petting zoo that will have a reindeer. Santa and his elves will be there to interact with guests and young children.
The Historic Harrison County Courthouse is decorated with over 125,000 tiny white lights, and it is one of Marshall’s prides of the Christmas displays. This is one of the best light displays in East Texas. Your whole family will love the different fun Christmas events. So take the trip to Marshall to see the beautiful displays for yourself and enjoy a great time and enjoy the great food and keep warm with a great hot chocolate.
If you do not feel like paying money to see Christmas lights, than you can take your family to the Hollytree gated neighborhood. The fancy houses are each decorated with amazing displays of colorful lights. A couple houses even have a radio station that you can tune into to and watch a light display that goes along with the music. Many of the house’s Christmas light display are amazing.