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Riverside Festival of Lights
Riverside, CA · Holiday
- When
- November 21, 2026 – January 6, 2027
- Where
- Mission Inn Hotel & Spa · Riverside · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A large-scale holiday lights display transforming the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in downtown Riverside, running from the Saturday before Thanksgiving through the first week of January. Millions of lights, seasonal entertainment and a switch-on ceremony draw visitors from across Southern California. The display has run annually since the early 1990s.
The history within reach
- Riverside Festival of Lightssame spot
A large-scale holiday lights display transforming the historic Mission Inn Hotel & Spa in downtown Riverside, running from the Saturday before Thanksgiving through the first week of January.
- The Mission Innsame spot
A twelve-room adobe boarding house that Frank Miller spent fifty years growing into a whole city block of towers, flying buttresses, catacombs and stolen European altarpieces.
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