Our family enjoys Christmas light displays. In the Saint Louis area, there are three big displays — Winter Wonderland in Tilles Park (McKnight Road just south of 64/40); The Way of Lights at the Our Lady of the Snows Shrine in Belleville, off of highway 15 just east of I-255; and Santa’s Magical Kingdom which is on I-44’s north outer road just west of Six Flags in Eureka. We’ve seen all three and enjoyed them immensely.
But there are smaller displays put on by individual homeowners we like to visit, too. Some favorites have gone dim over the years, but we keep visiting favorites and explore looking for new ones. On Kinsale just west of Dougherty Ferry there is a very nice display – you can see it from Dougherty Ferry and there backyard display seen reflecting in the lake is pretty cool. A house on the corner of Oaktree crossing and Greenfield crossing (near the intersection of Big Bend and Sulfur Springs) is unlike any other I’ve seen. For one thing, they have their own radio station (101.5 I think); many of the light displays are synchronized with the music, and the guy makes his own unique light displays. A nearby street — Red Oak Plantation — is another annual destination for us. The houses all have big wrap around front porches and just about every house on the dead end street puts on an elegant light display. A house at the corner of Pierside and Morning Oaks (just east of Old State Road) puts on a display that’s over the top. Way over the top. This corner lot is packed to the gills with every lighted decoration on the market.
Please share any favorite St. Louis area light displays in the comment section — we’d love to check it out.
UPDATE:
It’s been a few years since we’ve had the time to drive around, so the information above may be out of date. I’m also including info from the comments from 2003 below, and this too might be out of date. So please feel free to share both your favorites or if any of the ones listed here are no longer on display in the comments section.
A big thanks to Linda Hansen for her list.
And Isiah Angeli left the following comment in 2007 on a different post:
wow there’s this house at on Starview Dr off of Kerth and (I-55 SOUTH ) butler hill and they put up joy they have a home made star a nativity set and lights every way you look.
