Gather up the family and some mugs of hot cocoa, because it’s time for the annual community favorite, the STMA Holiday Lights Tour! This year’s tour includes some of the best and brightest holiday light displays in our community. Follow the path below to visit 8 different locations over the course of 1 hour.

Thanks to the magic of Christmas, Santa Claus will be making visits to locations all over STMA this holiday season! Whether you’re hoping to meet him at a big community celebration or in a quiet one-on-one session, we can help you find the perfect opportunity to visit old St. Nick and give him your Christmas wish list.

We’re gearing up for our favorite community Christmas tradition, the STMA Holiday Lights Tour!

For nearly 10 years, the STMA Holiday Lights Tour has featured some of the best and brightest displays in St. Michael and Albertville. In addition to the local favorites, we try to include new features on our tour each year, which is why we need YOUR help!

Nominate YOUR (or your neighbor’s) holiday lights display for inclusion on this year’s tour by visiting https://forms.gle/jhJ93HVNWDRMAZ9x7.

The map for the 2025 STMA Holiday Lights Tour will be made available by December 5.

Get ready to have your holiday spirits lifted! The classic story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, is back by popular demand and returning for its 13th season at the Children’s Theatre Company. This family favorite, all-ages show opens on Friday and will run through January 4.

In this beloved holiday favorite, filled with music and Seussian rhymes, a miserable, cantankerous Grinch plots the greatest heist imaginable—stealing the very thing the joyful Whos love the most. Until, that is, the smallest of the Whos, tiny Cindy-Lou, extends a hand.