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Songbird Drive: This year, this neighborhood is spectacular. Nearly every house has some adornment and many are over the top. Peaked roofs and big windows provide lovely outlines for lights. Catch the lawn with hand-made replicas of animals including dolphins and wolves along with koalas and kangaroos, and Ferris wheel of birds. Wood cutouts of geese, reindeer and Grinches, along with nativities make this road a good one for day visits too. Is that a silhouette of a sneaky Santa in one window?
Keefer Road to Greenberry: Here’s a fun area with lots of residents hauling around strings of lights. Off Greenberry, many streets offer appealing lawns and lights.
4505 Gardenbrook Drive: Light strands scallop bushes, trees and areas of lawn. Check out Santa’s delivery and inflatables too. The best story is that Santa’s helper is a 9-year-old whose grandmother called in. Christmas decorating starts young.
4175 Nighthawk Way: This really does glow, from lights carpeting trees, bushes, the house. Check out the gingerbread family. The old-fashioned lights really glow.
578 Cimarron Drive: This family has added more classic Chico decorations by the late Mr. Christmas, Don Corrie. It’s reorganized and but definitely worth a stop. Candy canes are handed out nightly, and join the family for Santa, hot chocolate and cookies from 6 to 9 p.m. Dec. 22 and 23.
4 Elisha Court: This house on a cul-de-sac road has something for everyone. There’s a hand-made wooden cross, lots of lights, and a fishing Santa who landed on the roof with a bass in a raft.
1518 E. Lassen Ave.: This house couldn’t get any more festive, but he found a way by adding snow machines. This two-story house is known for its glow, coming from a count-down calendar, lawn decorations, glowing mailbox, and synchronized lights that beat a Christmas tune on the radio. It’s worth getting out of the car because there is so much.
2856 Trimbelle River Road: From Floral Avenue, north of Eaton Road, turn east on Silkwood, south at Kettle Creek and east on Trimbelle River. Let the glow guide you to this display.
Ceanothus Avenue: Just before you hit the roundabout you’ll see a lawn fairly bristling with inflatables. As tempting as it can be, don’t continue going around and around the roundabout. Park for a closer look.
1170 and 1172 Whitewood Way: Is there any room for a blade of grass? Adjacent yards and neighborly decorators make this a massive display of lights and inflatables. From the Nativity on one side to candy canes and penguins, this array is extensive.
2410 Floral Ave.: This is her 30th year. Bright, glowy blow molds rule this yard in little vignettes of angels or singers or Santas. Nine new blow molds join the merry mix. Because cords and plugs cover the lawn, visitors are asked to stay off the lawn.
7 Montclair Drive: Drivers along this dead-end street are greeted by a glow right off the bat, with trunk-wrapped trees, house and more. Go around the corner for more decorations.
1675 Manzanita Ave.: Turn at the Pleasant Valley Mobile Estates sign to enter this neighborhood. No 10 belongs to the parents of one of our first featured Christmas decorators. Guess who’s sharing several dozen blow molds with Mom and Dad. While the young decorator is taking a break for the year, his parents are gathering momentum.
3 Baroni Dr.: The north end of Baroni is home to a couple of sparkling houses, with cutouts, inflatables and The Mystery Machine of Scooby-Doo fame.
Skymountain Circle, Wildflower: Check out the jolly hand-made wooden snowman on Wildflower, huge globes on trees and stunning angels making music on Skymountain.
New Dawn Circle: A number of lawns have that glowing quality in this neighborhood off. Inflatables are popular, along with cartoon characters like the Disney movie “Minions.”
767 Westmont Court: Make the kids count the candy canes at this house. A star on the chimney and the “dripping” white lights from tree branches sets the scene.
1206 West Wind Drive: Our featured decorator.
130 Zinnia Way: There are close to 20 dog decorations at this house, celebrating the family’s big dogs, along with pooches of all sizes. They lost their sweet but old Great Pyrenees, but now have a new friend, an Anatolian shepherd pup to keep Buster the Newfoundland mastiff rottweiler company. You might see them romping through the front window.
879 Mathews: Can you say Snoopy inflatable overload? Snoopy is in a canoe, flying off the roof in a plane, on a Zamboni, not to mention a motorcycle. This decorator loves Snoopy and we love the lawn. Whatever is that snowman barbecuing? Others around the block are pretty too.
Silverado Estates Court: While many lawns are dark, there are others that are decorated to the max to make the drive worthwhile. The shape of the houses and neat lawns add to the scene.
Amber Grove: Take Yellowstone, Greenfield or Amber Grove to a magic land where nearly every street has some adornment, and it’s a great cruise. Standouts include Silver Lake Drive as usual, with a HUGE Santa blow-up. Fun in the day too.