Top Ten Best Christmas Towns in America (U.S.)

Christmas is everybody's favorite time of year. American's charming Christmas towns in the US. Make you feel the magic of Christmas. Regardless of whether it's the night before Christmas or the middle of summer. They feature some of the world's best Christmas light displays, multi-day festivals, sleigh rides etc. whether you want sun or snow.

These charming Christmas towns can fulfil all your festive Christmas desires and to make you feel like you're stepping inside a hallmark movie. Here is Top Ten Best Christmas Towns In America.

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1) Leavenworth, Washington

Dreaming of a white Christmas, look no further than this small town tucked in the mountains Leavenworth, Washington. This Bavarian style town has a European atmosphere because of its architectural buildings and local traditions.

With a fresh blanket of snow during the holiday and entirely lit up with more than half a million lights. it creates a beautiful winter wonderland transforming the town into a snow globe.

Christmas traditions include a display of Santa costumes from all around the world, a gingerbread house competition and a chance to win a Leavenworth themed Christmas tree loaded with gifts.

Adults and kids can have fun in the snow by sledding, sleigh rides and dog sledding. You can visit a local reindeer farm. Where you can feed them or the nutcracker museum to see a collection of seven thousand nutcrackers. Lastly, you'll have to stop by the annual Christkindl market for handmade gifts and steaming cups of blue line spiced wine.

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2) Woodstock, Vermont

Once the holiday season kicks off in Woodstock. This quaint new England town turns into a holly jolly hotspot, straight out of a homework movie.

The annual wassail weekend is held on the second Saturday of December. With the season begins with a parade led by a horse drawn carriages and buggies. After, feels like the opening ceremony to the holiday.

You can participate at all the festivities including Charming historic farmhouse tours. Shopping for locally made foods and an antique, breakfast of Santa and can gather for the lighting up the town's tree. The artistic talents are displayed during the snow sculpture festival with live carvings before the final day. Revealing the ice masterpieces.

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3) Veil, Colorado

Most people know Veil Colorado as one of the top ski resorts in the country, but this town is something a bit more exciting in store. Every holiday season transforming it into a winter wonderland. 

Once the snowy season arrives. Its location in the mountains gives it an enamoring of snow halo and as quaint low-lit shops and restaurants complete the Christmas story look like a dream. 

The entire town features European style homes decorated with a festive display of lights and Christmas decorations from the trees lining the main roads to the shops. Spend the day out on the slopes before returning to town, in the easy to warm up by the fireplace, sipping hot chocolate.

This spirit of Christmas spirit unveiled only adds to the town’s appeal. where visitors have daily festival events like sleigh rides through town. You'll get perfect gift for everyone in many shops.

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4) Stockbridge, Massachusetts

The picturesque town of Stockbridge might just look like a Norman Rockwell painting and that's because it is. Every year the town recreates the 1967 Rockwell painting entitled. Stockbridge main street at Christmas.

The celebration includes holidays, historic house tours decorated for the holidays, caroling, horse drawn carriage rides, a visit with Santa, old fashioned cars line in the mean streets and buildings and a Sunday afternoon recreation of Rockwell's Painting.

Throughout the rest of the season Stockbridge region’s many cuisines and award-winning dining options make it the perfect place for a holiday escape. If you love Norman Rockwell and this is your town to visit this is what Christmas magic books like.

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5) Franklin, Tennessee

You can stem back in time at the annual Dickens of a Christmas festival in historic downtown Franklin Tennessee. This Christmas village brings characters from a Christmas carol and Oliver twist to life throughout its weekend long festivities. 

Featuring over two hundred musicians and dancers. You can roam the Victorian village and try Victorian-era Christmas tree like sugar plums while listening to carolers. 

You can stop and have a chat with Jacob Gnarly or Ebenezer Scrooge before visiting Father Christmas. Other highlights include a Victorian Christmas village carriage ride and a maker’s village. If you love the dickens Christmas carols spirit and this is the town for you.

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6) St. Augustine, Florida

It's unlikely you'll find the Christmas spirit in a hot climate but, you’re in for a surprise. when you visit St. Augustine Florida during a holiday season. Every year more than 3 million twinkling lightbulb illuminates twenty blocks of the city's historic district during the annual nights of lights festival. 

You can view the brilliance spectacle by trolley, train, boat, helicopter, horse drawn carriage and by foot. What's even better is that you can enjoy the whole show without wearing a coat, hat and gloves. 

You can also go to the banks at Matanzas Bay on the second Saturday of December for a parade of boat floating along the bay, decorated in the brilliant display of lights called the holiday regatta lights or visit the St. Augustine lighthouse for unique display and a chance to hang out with Santa Claus during the annual visit.

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7) Natchitoches, Louisiana

Natchitoches might be a small Louisiana town, but it celebrates Christmas in a big way. The holiday preparation starts in June with over 300,000 bright lights and a hundred riverbank decorations tested for the festival of lights.

 

Established in 1714 as Louisiana purchases the oldest settlement. locals started the annual Christmas festival in the small French town to bring holiday cheer. It has grown exponentially every year since. A century later it's one of the best Christmas towns in the U.S.

During the six-week holiday festival, you can tour around the national historic landmark district in a horse drawn carriage. Shop at Louisiana’s oldest general store, pickup creamy eggnog, baked daiquiris at a drive through beverage barn, munch on the town’s iconic piping hot meat pies, and watch fireworks light up the sky over cane river lake.

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8) Grapevine Texas

This list wouldn't be complete without mentioning the Christmas capital of Texas. This small Christmas town outside of Dallas knows how to ring in Christmas Texas style. Posting over forty days of Christmas events during the holiday season. You can create many holiday memories with your family and loved ones. 

There are millions of Christmas lights and decorations that cover the entire city. There are ice sculptures and slides displayed at the gaylord Texan resort. It features an impressive two million pounds of ice, 2 million twinkling lights, fifteen thousand ornaments and a hundred-foot-tall Christmas tree.

You can also indulge in other Christmas-infused fun such as the north pole express train ride, a parade and even outdoor showing of Christmas film favorites.

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9) Duluth, Minnesota

If you enjoy all the light displays the Christmas holidays have to offer. Then a trip to Duluth, is a must. The festivities officially kick off the Friday before Thanksgiving with the Christmas city of the north. 

Night-time parade that includes two dozen marching bands, seventy-five businesses, several dance groups and even Santa. you'll witness one of the biggest Christmas trees and Bayfront park for the Bentleyville tour of the lights.

A drive through light show extravaganza features over four million colorful bulbs. Its centerpiece trade towers 128 feet tall above immersive Christmas scenes. That visitors can walk through and take photos.

 You can also climb aboard the Christmas city express, a vintage train wrapped in holiday lights and decoration for a scenic ride along the coast of Lake Superior where adults and kids can enjoy amazing views while listening to Christmas music.

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10) North Pole Alaska

The North Pole is on this list, where Christmas and Santa live all year around looking like a hallmark movie set. Over the holidays visitors can meet Santa Claus himself at Santa Claus' house. Get personalized letters from him and take photos with the largest fifty-foot Santa statue in the world.

If the Christmas lights decorating the town all year aren't enough. Christmas energy here is for you. The streetlights are designed like candy canes with street names like mistletoe lake and Kris Kringle drive and there's always the annual Christmas parade that runs right down Santa Claus Lane. It is Christmas everywhere you look.

The area also hosts an annual Christmas and ice exhibit that displays fabulous ice sculptures made by artists around the world including an ice maze as ice slide.

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