Welcome to Lewes Lights!
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December 5th-31st 5:00-9:00 Nightly
What is Lewes Lights?
Lewes Lights, is a free, community holiday light tour.. During the month of December, Lewes, Delaware homeowners & businesses decorate for the holiday season, illuminating our city with light and joy. It's a gift from the heart brought to you be the residents of the First Town in the First State.
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The annual tour map is published here in December, before the lights go on for the weekend of the Lewes Christmas Parade. Visitors can print or view our driving tour map online. It shows all of the lighted homes and businesses as map points. This is a self-guided tour to explore at your own pace.
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The goal of Lewes Lights is to lift spirits, spread light & joy, and bring our community together. We invite you to be part of our homegrown holiday tradition. While viewing lights, please shop or dine in Lewes to support our wonderful downtown businesses.​ Thank you to the Lewes Lights homeowners and businesses who are the backbone of Lewes Lights. Please recruit neighbors to register and join our Lewes tradition.
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Spread your light and let's glow Lewes!
Christmas spirit is contagious.
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WHERE CAN WE SEE THE LIGHTS?
WHO CAN REGISTER FOR THE MAP?
Lights can be viewed East of Route One, on Savannah Road, on Kings Highway, and in the City of Lewes Limits. In 2020, when Lewes Lights began, the event was only in town. We stretched the area a bit in different years and are returning to the original boundaries for 2025 and beyond. The gateway of New Road is not on the map this year, but it may be added back in the future when the road construction is finished. There are some beautifully decorated homes on New Road!
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Why the change? As Lewes continues to grow, Lewes Lights is focusing on small town joy and the beauty of downtown at Christmas. We want to keep the magical feeling of Lewes Lights alive and it's hard to do that when it is spread out across a larger area. From a practical perspective, it is safer in the City of Lewes limits with more lighting, an easier grid of streets to navigate, more lights in a denser area, and a consistent 25 mile per hour speed limit. Not many homes outside of the city limits register, so the map sent "light peepers" to neighborhoods outside of town for just one or two homes. New construction and road realignment are safety factors. So, it's back to a simpler tour with lighted homes closer together in the City of Lewes map area that is easier and safer to navigate with less driving.
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We know some of our special Christmas lovers and "Clark Griswolds" around greater Lewes want to be listed. We want to list you too! That is what our WOW Wonderful Homes page. Any home in the 19958 zip code with lots of lights and Christmas spirit can be submitted for listing there. Please submit your WOW home outside the city so that visitors can put in addresses and navigate directly, not by following the map. Here is the WOW Homes page.
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Lewes Lights
Lewes Lights is community driven and collectively owned by every person who puts up lights and gets on the tour map or enters a WOW home. We are not a professional organization or a group of many volunteers, corporate-sponsored, or a charitable organization raising money.
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We love Lewes and started this tradition to raise the Clause-O-Meter in town to bring joy to all from 2 to 92. The goal of Lewes Lights is spreading joy and making Lewes brighter every December.
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Christian Mullins and Debra Evalds started Lewes Lights in 2020 during the COVID shutdown to raise spirits because we couldn't imagine Lewes without Christmas events or a Parade. A few friends jumped in to help. The people of Lewes embraced Lewes Lights and decorated their homes and businesses like we had never seen before, so they are who to thank for making Lewes Lights a success! The collective Christmas spirit and joy was contagious, and we vowed then to do Lewes Lights for as long as we could keep people decorating and making Lewes glow.
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Debra has taken over the reins of the sleigh, as the sole organizer with the special help of Santa and the sign elves. Reach out if you want to help. Lewes Lights is not a charity or a 501c-3, so please donate to the many in our region that need help. This is a collective Christmas celebration that is self-funded, and the signs are a present from Santa. Volunteers are always needed to help increase sign-ups in their neighborhoods, tell new neighbors about Lewes Lights, send emails to their friends and neighbors to get the word out, help with signs, or create a better map and self-guided tour. That map is really our biggest need and exceeds our talents. A web designer is another special elf on the wish list. Send an email to LewesLights@gmail.com if you would like to be our magical map elf or be a secret Santa to fund a better map system!
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Thank you to every home and business in Lewes that decorates and illuminates to make Lewes glow, as well as to every person who has contributed their help over the years. You are truly the hosts of this humble and homegrown Christmas party. Please keep Lewes Lights going and glowing by signing up, putting up your lights, and sharing your enthusiasm! Together we glow.
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