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Your favorite Christmas Lights 2023

Bybrian.abeling December 5, 2023

We recently asked Iowa Road Trip followers to submit photos of their favorite holiday lights – whether it be from their community lights or even their front yard. Here are some of our favorites.

Robert Gibson’s backyard in Nevada, Iowa

Tafeeta Benson’s photo from the Cannonball 457 in Mason City, Iowa

Holiday lights at the corner of 37th and Ashworth in West Des Moines, Iowa. Love those pine tree cutouts! Photo submitted by Micheal Kromminga

Aerial view of Painting with Lights in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Photo by Jeremy Schuring.

Lights at the Aquacourt in Anamosa, Iowa. Submitted by Becky Dirks Haugsted

Holiday lights at the Lake in Iowa City, Iowa.

Spencer, Iowa submitted by Don Strock

Maytag Park in Newton, Iowa Submitted by Janis Bartley

The windmill at Central Park in Pella, Iowa. Submitted by Joel Merrill

The train is the newest addition at Winter Wonderland in Le Mars, Iowa. Photo submitted by Kari Lynn

Submitted by Josh Einspahr in Hampton, Iowa

Kari Swanson submitted this photo from Winter Wonderland in Le Mars, Iowa.

My grandfathers nativity set that was inherited by Kim Heinbuch Fuhrman, West Des Moines, Iowa

Hunter’s Ridge in Pella, Iowa submitted by Susan Van Gorkorn

Oskaloosa town square called Painting with Lights, submitted by Tammy Danielson

Fertile, Iowa submitted by Tim Severson

POET Tree in Hanlontown, Iowa submitted by Vicky Nickell Adams

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