10 of the best neighborhoods to see Albuquerque Christmas lights | Things to Do | abqjournal.com

Nov 09, 2024

em121918c/jnorth/Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza reflect off a puddle of ice and water from piles of snow left from a storm. Photo shot Wednesday Decemeber 19, 2018. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Editor’s note: This article was updated Oct. 29, 2024. All neighborhoods remained the same based on research, but an additional way to view the neighborhood lights was added.

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MH // SLUGGED: mh-LIGHTS // JP1 WEST SIDE The Parons family's 1st place Christmas lights in Ventana Ranch

FAROLITOS/ file photo/ JP1special sections Farolitos and Christmas lights in Santa Fe.

WINDMILLS-1//Journal//13Dec99//Richard Pipes//State//JP4ALL NAMES CQ Christmas lights adorn one of Bill Dalley's many windmills in Portales.

Christmas Lights jp1/south/ truckdeco2/jay flores /for the journal. A decorated one ton 1947 Diamond-T truck sits at the corner of Hiway 314 and Main Street in Los Lunas.

lights/ Dev Mukh Khalsa/ JP4/ 12.21.00/ metroWith 41,000 Christmas lights, Ernie Montoya has the brightest Christmas display in the neighborhood and probably in the South Valley. (CQ)

X-MAS LIGHTS - 2 96/ JIM THOMPSON/ JP1/ ARTS/ 12-27-96/ Christmas lights on a house at 309 51ST NW in Albq.

X-MAS LIGHTS -3- 96/ JIM THOMPSON/ JP1/ ARTS/ 12-27-96/ Christmas lights on a house at 309 51ST NW in Albq.

XLIGHTS1/file photo/JP1special sections Lighting your house for the holidays. Christmas lights and decorations. Journal file photo.

From APL North XMAS CD//wip/9/21/02//NORTH XMAS LIGHTS1/12.16.01/pierre-louis/JP2special projects2 Alfonso Vargas,, strings Christmas lights in front of his Chimayo home Sunday December 16, 2001. The Los Alamos Lab employee has been decorating his home for the last 17 years.

em112814e/metro/ Jerry Jeffords and Martha Griego, from Santa Fe but now living in Parker Colorado, have their picture taken under the Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza Friday November 28, 2014. The light had just been turned on during the annual tree lighting ceremony. Hundred of people attended the event that included Santa Claus and entertainment. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

em121918c/jnorth/Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza reflect off a puddle of ice and water from piles of snow left from a storm. Photo shot Wednesday Decemeber 19, 2018. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rer121418h/metro/Dec.,14, 2018/Roberto E. Rosales The Christmas Shop, which sells Christmas ornaments, nativity scenes and to of other Christmas decorations and accessories year round, is completing its 400th year in the business. Pictured are the famous red and grey Chile Christmas lights for sale. Albuquerque, New Mexico/Roberto E. Rosales/Journal

RORY MCCLANNAHAN/TELEGRAPH Christmas lights in Moriarty. [email protected] Tue Dec 23 17:55:15 -0700 2014 1419382505 FILENAME: 184336.jpg

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS gbs_xmaslights1/WEST/Greg Sorber/121808 -- Lights and Christmas figures fill the front yard of the Collins family on Rempas NW. They have put up the lights for nine years and it takes 5 hours to set up the display.

RORY MCCLANNAHAN/ TELEGRAPH A home in Moriarty displays its Christmas lights. [email protected] Mon Dec 22 10:12:13 -0700 2008 1229965926 FILENAME: 50824.jpg

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS mkb121509b/rr/121509/Marla Brose The Christmas lights come on at Tom Trotter's home, on Villa Verde Dr. SE , near Sabana Grande Ave SE, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, in Rio Rancho, N.M. "I've always gone overboard," Trotter said about his yearly lights display. This year he has about 20,000, mainly LED, lights. If you drive by, turn on your radio to 90.3 FM and watch the computer controlled lights that flash in time to the Christmas music. The display on Villa Verde Dr. is on from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. nightly.(Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS rer121709i/Rio Rancho//12.17.09/Roberto E. Rosales Residents in Rio Rancho near Northern Blvd have decorated their homes with Christmas lights. Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal.)

LEE ROSS/TELEGRAPH A home in Moriarty displays its Christmas lights. [email protected] Tue Dec 21 13:15:07 -0700 2010 1292962499 FILENAME: 100300.jpg

pvc111912h/11-19-12/north. Heather Dukeman (CQ), her daughter Zara Dukeman (CQ) age 22 months, and Zara's father Tim Dukeman (CQ), not pictured, all visiting from South Bend, Indiana, take advantage of a Monday night test of the Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza in preparation for Friday's Christmas tree lighting, photographed Monday Nov. 19, 2012. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

em112913f/jnorth/daily/ The Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza were turned on during the annual ceremony, in Santa Fe, Friday November 29, 2013. Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal

em112913g/jnorth/daily/ Katie Kallias and her kids Asher, 16 months, and Alyx, 3, take their photo in front of Roger Lamoreux's '47 Chevy firetruck. This was after the Christmas lights on the Santa Fe Plaza were turned on during the annual ceremony, in Santa Fe, Friday November 29, 2013. Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal

Budagher-3 12-10-04 sorber JP1a/section Traditions marketplace at Budaghers is aglow with Christmas lights on Friday, December 10, 2004.

Christmas lights and small statues decorate Charles

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