If you are looking for a unique holiday event but also want to give back to the community head down to the Franktown Festival of Lights!
Franktown Festival of Lights was created in 2005 as a way to decorate the neighborhood for the holidays and has grown into the wonderful spectacle it is today. The display takes over 20 days to install and features over 500K lights, animated displays, forest walking trails, a small drive through, and 12 custom synchronized light shows!
Know Before You Go
- FREE: No tickets / No Reservations / No Fees required
- Food Drive : Please bring canned goods, non-perishable, or hygiene related items, cash donations also welcome!
- Location: 575 N White Tail Dr.Franktown, CO 80116 This is a private residence! Please be respectful of the property, neighbors, and community.
- Dates: Nightly November 27, 2025 - December 31, 2025
- Time: 5:00pm-10:00pm with light shows starting at 5:20pm
- Drive thru/by: Tune car radios to FM 90.7 and turn off headlights, drive-thru portion may be closed for walkers only at busy times.
- Walk thru: Outdoor speakers to enjoy the music. Trail and drive may be slippery and uneven and owner is not responsible for slips, falls, accidents or injuries of any kind. Santa is around most weekends from 5:00pm-8:00pm.
- Be patient! The festival has become a popular holiday event. There will be a lot of traffic and limited parking.
Light Shows Nightly until December 31, 2025
The light shows are created and programmed by the owner and their son. They create mixed soundtracks and program the lights to account for every beat of music creating a truly festive synchronized show. In total it takes around 8 hours of programming and planning to complete. The light shows run every 20 minutes starting at 5:20pm with the last show at 9:40pm. Below is the list of possible shows, show run between 5 and 8 minutes. The lights will be lit between shows.
- Frozen Queen (with Encore) - Various Artists (7.5 minutes)
- Glorious Newborn - Sidewalk Prophets and Mercy Me (6.5 minutes)
- Go Tell The World - VanBuuren, Pentatonix, and Profitt/Crowder (6 minutes)
- Hark the Bells Drummer Boy - Various artists and for King & Country (7.5 minutes)
- Holiday Medley Mishap - Lincoln Brewster and Armin Van Buuren (7 minutes)
- Ho Ho Ho Down - Various artists and music styles (7.5 minutes)
- Joy to Grinch - Variety of artists and styles (6.5 minutes)
- Merry Spirit of Christmas To You - Sidewalk Prophets (8 minutes)
- Perfect Light of the World - Lauren Daigle / Chris Tomlin (7 minutes)
- Rockin the Trees - The Blenders and Reliant K (5.5 minutes)
- Twas the Night to Let it Go - Variety of artists and enjoyable styles (8 minutes)
Check schedules regularly HERE. Schedule is shuffled and shows added for repeat visitors.
About the Food Drive
All donated items, cash, canned goods, non-perishable, or hygiene related items, are divided among three local charities. In 2024, roughly 10,000 pounds of food and nearly $10,000 in cash donations that were given to the food banks.
- SECOR -South East Community Outreach (Parker, CO). began as a Christmas Outreach program from the Southeast Christian Church offering food and gifts to those who might not otherwise have a Christmas. From there, it grew into a year round outreach program, feeding families in need.
- Help and Hope Center (Castle Rock, CO - Serving Douglas & Elbert County), is making life-changing differences for our neighbors in need.
- The Parker Task Force for Human Services (Parker, CO) is dedicated to providing individuals and families in our community with food, limited financial assistance and other support services to help them become self-sufficient.
Visitors who prefer to donate directly to the organizations we support, can click on each orgaizations name listed above to be redirected to that organization's donation options. If you reference Franktown Festival of Lights it will help those organizations understand the impact your visit to our display makes.
