Celebrate the holiday season in Lexington, South Carolina at Holiday Lights on the River, Lights Before Christmas, Snowville and more!
Lexington SC holiday events feature twinkling lights, holiday tunes, visits with Santa, carriage rides, holiday shows and more! Celebrate this season with family and friends in Lexington, South Carolina. Mark your calendar today for these special holiday events.
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2014 Lexington South Carolina Holiday Events:
Holiday Lights on the River
Now - December 31, 2014
From November 26th through December 31st, Saluda Shoals Park will come alive in a blaze of more than a million sparkling lights. Holiday Lights on the River features over 400 themed, animated light displays on a two-mile loop of the Park! Enjoy the Dazzling Dancing Forest with its dancing, lighted trees synchronized to classical and whimsical holiday music. See the three dimensional Victorian Village, Old Man Winter, the holiday classic Twelve Days of Christmas and so much more, all in sparkling lights. Take a stroll along the boardwalk through the Wetland Wonderland Walking Trail and watch nature come to life in sparkling lights. Take a hayride to the boardwalk for $1 per person or walk along the new trail to the Wetland and enjoy a laser light show and the Deck the Doors Holiday door display along the way. Holiday Lights admission applies. Click here for additional information.
Lights Before Christmas at Riverbanks Zoo
Now - December 30, 2014
Closed Nov 27, Dec 24 & 25
Experience Columbia's longest running holiday tradition! Bring the kids and the camera and see why Lights Before Christmas has continued as a family tradition for more than 25 years. Enjoy nearly one million twinkling lights, counless animated images and dazzling Music in Motion Lights. There will be nightly visits with Santa, and warm memories and holiday cheer around the Jingle Bell Bonfire. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for children. Call 803-779-8717 for more information.
Snowville!
Now - February 22, 2015
Every day is a SNOW DAY at EdVenture Children's Museum from November 22nd through February 22nd! Strap on some ice skates and pack your mittens for a frosty, fun-filled trip to Snowville. Our most popular seasonal exhibit is cooler than ever! Crawl through an ice tunnel, climb a snow-capped mountain, sled down a snowy hill, or visit the Penguin Observation Station. It’s all in Snowville! Click here for additional information.
Cirque Dreams Holidaze
November 30 - December 1, 2014
Unwrap Your Imagination! Now in its 5th year of touring multiple simultaneous productions, CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE is “so full of energy it could end our dependence on oil” according to the New York Daily News and “stuffed with so much holiday cheer and audacious acts, Scrooge would exit with a big ol’ smile on his face” proclaims the Erie Times News about this “Broadway-worthy spectacle”. Broadway World calls Cirque Dreams Holidaze “The Perfect Holiday Gift, chock full of stupefying stunts that Cirque Dreams’s competitors aren’t even attempting.
Jingle All The Way
December 2, 2014 at 7PM
The former Mrs. USA, Tammy Johns, and her award winning Carolina FreeStyle dance team present a great evening of dance and celebration. Regular performers at the SC State Fair, Country Tonite Theater in Gatlinburg, Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach, Walt Disney World in Florida, and New York City where they have performed on the National NBC television program the Today Show.
MCHS Band Christmas Concert
December 3, 2014 at 8PM
The MCHS Band Christmas Concert will be held on December 2, 2014 at the Newberry Opera House. Hear from Mid-Carolina High School's students in this special holiday event. Tickets are just $6.00 per person.
Carter and Holmes Orchids Christmas Open House and sale
December 4-6, 2014
Join Carter and Holmes Orchids for their Christmas Open House and Sale December 4 - 6, 2014. Enjoy 25% off orchids, 40% off foliage, ferns and houseplants, 10% off growing supplies and more. There will be blooming orchids to decorate your home for the holidays and much more! Lunch is served between 12PM and 1PM with any orchid purchase. Click here for additional information.
A Starry Night in Five Points
December 4, 2014
The newest event in Five Points! Join us on Thursday, December 4th as we celebrate everything that is wonderful about this time of year during our holiday open house. Stores will be open late and offering terrific sales and complimentary refreshments! Meet Santa, enjoy hot chocolate courtesy of H&R Block and holiday treats at the fountain. There will be music, horse carriage rides and more!
Columbia Children's Theatre presents Jack Frost
December 5 - 14, 2014
Something’s up with the weather. The leaves are turning non-existent colors, unexpected snows are blanketing the orange groves and farmers are getting frost bite in the summer. What is going on? Is it global warming? No, it’s Jack Frost being “creative” again. When Jack’s rebellion and yearning for self-expression start landing him in hot water, his parents The Snow Queen and The Frost King, decide that a little time spent with the industrious and practical Kringle family would teach the head-strong lad a lesson. Click here for additional information.
Lake Murray Visitor center Holiday Open House
December 13 - 14, 2014
The theme for the 2014 Holiday Open House is “Hooked on the Holidays.” Come enjoy light refreshments and holiday music as we get the Lorick Plantation into the holiday spirit. We are looking forward to having this year's decorations be provided by Pisgah Lutheran Church, Garden Club of Saluda, Coldstream Garden Club, and Meeting Street Interiors. Also, come meet South Carolina's very own and this year's Fishing League Worldwide champion, Anthony Gagliardi. He will be stopping by to provide autographed FLW calendars. This is a free event!
Lexington County Museum Christmas Open House
December 14, 2014 from 1PM - 4PM
Come experience Christmas traditions of the past at the Lexington County Museum as it hosts its Annual Christmas Open House on December 14, 2014 from 1PM - 4PM. Many of the 30 historic houses one the Museum complex will be open and will feature period Christmas decorations. The event is free to the public. There will be live music and light refreshments including hot apple cider and gingerbread will be served! Click here for additional information.
Candlelight Tours & Carriage Rides
December 19, 2014 from 6PM - 9PM
Enjoy the decorated halls of our historic Robert Mills House, the Hampton-Preston Mansion and Mann-Simons Site by candlelight on a guided tour. As the sesquicentennial of the end of the Civil War approaches, we will glimpse into the lives of Columbians in the 1860s. Musical entertainment, children’s activities and interpretation of the houses will reflect the uncertainty of life in the South from viewpoints of enslaved workers to those of wealthy planters. Before or after your house tour, enjoy carriage rides through the Robert Mills historic district. Stop by the Gift Shop’s holiday open house throughout the evening for a last minute storewide sale as well as refreshments, holiday tunes and giveaways. Click here for additional information.
WinterFest at SC State Museum
December 20, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Take a break from the holiday frenzy with family activities celebrating the winter season! A State Museum holiday tradition kicks off in December with a two-week long celebration of the winter season. Call 803-898-4952 for more information.
Danielle Snyder
Lexington SC Events
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