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Gulfport Harbor Lights Winter Festival

Gulfport, MS · Holiday

When

November 29 – December 31, 2026

Where

Jones Park · Gulfport · MS

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

More than a million and a half lights transform Jones Park into the Mississippi coast's largest holiday display, with routes running from late November through New Year's Eve. It marked its tenth year in 2026.

The history within reach

• Gulfport Harbor Lights Winter Festivalsame spot

  More than a million and a half lights transform Jones Park into the Mississippi coast's largest holiday display, with routes running from late November through New Year's Eve.

• Cruisin' the Coastsame spot

  Thousands of classic cars and hot rods line the beachfront highway across several Mississippi coast cities for a week each October, billed as one of the largest car cruise events in the country.

• The Biloxi wade-ins5.8 mi

  Twenty-six miles of Mississippi beach had been built with public money and was closed to Black residents.

• Camille comes ashore at Pass Christian9.6 mi

  One of only four Atlantic hurricanes to reach the American coast at Category 5, with a surge over twenty feet that took the front row of houses off their slabs.

• Mississippi Scottish Highland Games & Celtic Music Festival10.0 mi

  Two days of Highland athletics, massed bagpipe bands, and Celtic dance and music at the Harrison County Fairgrounds.