From Port Townsend to Forks, the North Olympic Peninsula is shining brightly as residents and businesses adorn their homes with Christmas lights and other holiday displays.
Tell us about your favorite displays — the kind you don”t mind driving to see.
We’ll update this list — by area — every couple of days.
Include the address of the display, a little information about it, a nearby cross street and the name of the neighborhood or subdivision.
Also include your name and a contact phone number.
E-mail to news@peninsuladailynews.com (Subject line: Holiday Lights) — or by traditional mail to Holiday Lights, Peninsula Daily News Newsroom, P.O. Box 1330, Port Angeles, WA 98362.
Lights tour by coach
All Points Charters and Tours offers a Port Angeles Christmas Lights Tour in an executive mini-coach every evening from Dec. 20 to Jan. 1.
Reservations are necessary. Tours leave at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. each evening from the Safeway parking lot, 110 E. Third St., Port Angeles.
Special pickup arrangements can be made for either tour.
Tours cost $7 per person and include hot cider and cookies.
Phone 360-565-1139 to make a reservation, or to arrange a pickup.
All Points also provides “designated driver” service for guests at holiday parties.
It provides custom transportation for any size group to and from Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle.
Port Townsend
* Larry and Jeanette Poorboy, 430 Dennis Blvd., in Cape George Village of Port Townsend (take the Dennis Boulevard entrance go all the way to the bottom of the hill):
More than 5,000 LED lights; 38 lighted ornaments; display of a simulated waterfall turning into a creek that runs into an LED pond surrounded by LED grass. Two deer are drinking from the pond.
“We also have lighted LED bushes and lighted bears and a lighted train plus numerous lighted trees.
“We also have a simulated snow machine that makes it look like it’s snowing on the house.”
Port Angeles
* Alan Barnard and crew at RE/MAX Performance Team, 1007 E. Front St. — “Much variety of color, patterns and designs. Facia lights with animated and lighted Christmas characters. One handbuilt Christmas tree that kids can’t steel or break.”
* Sunset Wire Rope/Do It Best Hardware, 518 Marine Drive — Brightly bedecked with attention-grabbing holiday displays and thousands of dazzling lights.
* Chestnut Cottage restaurant, 929 E. Front St. — Abundance of colorful lights outlining the building and surrounding landscaping.
* MV Coho ferry, Railroad Avenue (when docked) — Simple and elegant, with lights and a beautiful Christmas star.
* Windermere Real Estate, 711 E. Front St. — Awesome bounty of bulbs. Cascading colored lights go down the side of the building.
* Willi-Lou’s Building, 105 and 107 W. First St. — Thousands of draped and cascading lights across the building.
* Dan and Laurie Bower, 460 Guy Kelly Road — “A must-see. Beautifully decorated, many molded figurines and blow-ups. You won’t be disappointed!”
Turn on Lake Farm Road (by Fairview School). Go down to Guy Kelly Road and turn right.
* Sandy Cawell, 1714 W. Sixth St. — Blow-up snowman, grinch, Winnie the Pooh, lights in snowflakes, candy cane — the works!
* Dan Shideler and Lisa McMillian, 1130 E. Eighth St. — “My husband, Dan, climbs the cedar tree in our front yard to strategically place lighted Christmas balls.
“This involves going up and down and up and down and up and down again. After placing them, he walks down the street to evaluate and then climbs the tree and makes more adjustments.
“The balls form the shape of a Christmas tree as best as the branches and Dan’s safety allow.
“Our inspiration came from a segment we saw on Martha Stewart’s show in 2000, but we have taken it to levels that even Martha could not have imagined.
“From Eighth and Chambers, go east on Eighth. You can’t miss us.”
