Events Around Portland at Christmas
If you want to know all the things going on around Portland for Christmas, here’s the best guides:
PDX Monthly’s list of holiday and light displays and events in and near Portland: https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/best-holiday-lights-displays-near-portland
Starts late Nov:
- Nov. 29 to Dec. 30 – Christmas Festival of Lights at the Grotto
- Nov. 22 to Jan. 5 – Portland Zoolights/Brewlights
- Winter Wonderland – Christmas lights at Portland International Raceway
- Hillsboro activities
- Downtown tree lighting
- Ice Skating and winter village at Orenco
- Lightopia at Hillsboro stadium – KOIN
- Pioneer Courthouse Square Tree Lighting
- Holiday Food & Gift Festival
- Vancouver
- Holidays on Franklin – complete with live entertainment, Santa, and blowing snow
Dec:
- Dec. 15–31 Peacock Lane Christmas Lights
- TUBA Christmas Concert
- Christmas Ship Parade
- SantaCon – though now there are multiple competing groups and none are even remotely as interesting as the original Cacophony Society ones late 90’s early 2000’s.
- Pittock Mansion Holiday Display
- Benson Hotel Gingerbread Masterpiece