Pecan Grove Christmas Lights & Hayrides

About this adventure

In Richmond, just southwest of Houston in Fort Bend County, the master-planned Pecan Grove community hosts a legendary, fiercely contested neighborhood Christmas light competition that draws tens of thousands of visitors each December. Almost every home along winding plantation-style avenues participates with synchronized musical rooflines, life-sized glowing reindeer, animatronic Santa scenes, and hundreds of thousands of lights. While visitors can drive or walk the public streets for free, the community's signature tradition is taking an open-air, tractor-pulled Christmas hayride. Operating nightly from Thanksgiving through New Year's Eve out of Pecan Grove Elementary School, standard and chartered hay trailers let entire families bundle up with cozy blankets and thermoses of cider to take in the spectacular displays without traffic headaches.