Blinky Lights in Philomath

12/12/2024

As we enter our 13th year of this project, we wanted to share this information we everyone that is new to us.

Who are we?
We are crazy Christmas and Holiday people that love bringing light to the community.

What do we do?
We Map, highlight, photograph and network with holiday display owners across the Pacific NW and more.
We curate our own content and map each year (though sometimes other sources "borrow" our content without permission, or credit given)

What make us different?
We are not a commercial national effort to map EVERYTHING, we are a regional focused page/group run by married couple. We build things and confirm things manually every year, this is 100s of hours of UNPAID work
We've been offered to bring our work into a national effort, but doing so, we lose a lot of our uniqueness, and a bit of makes us different.

Why do you do this?
We love seeing the joy that seeing a display in person (or via photographs) brings to adults and children alike, and that joy feeds our souls, and makes the effort we put in worth every bit of time we put into it.

Our main goal is to have a regional resource for people traveling during the holidays to find light displays near them.
We get our listings 90% from the owners directly, the others come from public sources, such as news outlets, etc.
Our goal is not take the place of other small local maps, but more so to have them partner up with us, let us do the hard work of the map work, letting them focus on other functions of their page or content creation.

2023 we had over 1000 individual listings, equaling out to around 1500+ decorated homes/displays.
We do list a selection of commercial displays that we are aware of, but receive no financial compensation for listing them.

We've also build a network of display owners nearly 500 members so far.

When we started this we ended our first year with 30 followers, now that number is over 31,000, we would love to see that number grow higher so more people can find the displays near them, and more display owners can help to bring their light to our community.

www.pnwcl.com is our main webpage, links for all our socials are there, consider joining our Patreon by donating just $1/month to help keep us running.

https://www.pacificnwchristmaslights.com/christmas-and-winter-holiday-map.html

From the Lisims Suspension bridge to Las Vegas all the way to Billings, MT

We have some overlap with our friends that run other local maps, but check out links on our webpage for our friends that run other local maps.

11/21/2024

Lights up and tested. Getting ready for the season.

NOTE SCHEDULE CHANGES!!

We’ve cut back on the music hours in response to some noise complaints. Lights will run 5:00-11:00 starting Nov 29 (Black Friday) but music is only available 6:30-8:30, Thursday to Sunday December 1-22, then Dec 23-25 and 31.

Please keep radio volume reasonable, don’t block driveways, and turn off headlights.

10/14/2023

Halloween lights started tonight and will run nightly through the rest of the month. Starting at 6:30 and running to 9:00, until 9:30 Friday and Saturday. Tune to 87.9 FM.
Keep the radio volume reasonable.
Don’t block driveways
Turn off headlights

12/20/2022

Had our first proposal tonight in front of the lights. Here’s wishing them the best.

12/13/2022

Eric Niemann from Philomath News took a couple absolutely gorgeous pictures of the house last night.
Shows running nightly 5:00-9:00 through New Years Day.

10/18/2022

Halloween show running nightly through Halloween

6:30-9:00 (9:30 Friday & Saturday)

Tune to 87.9 FM

Keep radio volume reasonable
Don’t block driveways
Turn off headlights
Enjoy and have fun

12/28/2021

Love love love the look of the lights in the snow

12/25/2021

For the second night in a row, the city paramedics stopped by to watch the lights. The fire department guys parked the big firetruck up the street and walked down to watch. They said they do this every year.

12/20/2021

The xLights Around the World project is a yearly video compilation showcasing animated Christmas lighting enthusiasts. Each year, a song is announced and anyone in the world is encouraged to sequence, film, and submit their display.

This is the third year Blinky Lights in Philomath has been a proud participant. This year's videos will come out Wednesday.

Our submission can be found at: https://vimeo.com/654702062

11/26/2021

Blinky Lights in Philomath wants to wish everyone a very happy Lighting Season Eve. 😏

11/21/2021

Props installed. Lights tested. Final touches going into the songs. Shows start Friday.

Remember to:
Turn off headlights
Keep radio volume reasonable
Don’t block driveways
Enjoy the experience

Sun-Thur 5:30-9:30
Fri-Sat 5:30-10:00

597 Neabeack Hill Dr
Philomath

10/26/2021

We made the local news:

https://philomathnews.com/special-display-lights-up-philomath-neighborhood-for-halloween/ #

Philomath resident Steve King enjoys lighting up his neighborhood in the spirit of Halloween. But this isn’t just limited to a modest display that looks cool in the black of night. King’s creation features nearly 10,000 pixel lights that provide a colorful atmosphere that are in sync with music....

10/19/2021

Halloween Lights are running nightly through the end of the month.

Here is our entry for the Halloween Horror Lights project.

This is "DevilWentDownToGeorgia" by Steven King on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

10/05/2021

Halloween decorations in the Pacific Northwest. Happy to be one of them.

Click HERE for Map Key Not for any commercial use Pacific NW Christmas Lights 2021 Halloween display and home haunt map Blue Ghost - 2021 Active Display (days hours will vary) Purple Ghost - 2021 Commercial Display Black Ghost - 2021 May not be Family Friendly

08/18/2021

100 days until the Christmas lights turn on. Only 58 until the Halloween lights. Lots to do still but we'll be ready.

Halloween: Oct 15-31st
Christmas: Nov 26-Jan ??