San Antonio does Christmas on the water. While other cities light a single tree in a single square, San Antonio switches on 200,000 lights draped over the bald cypress trees along its downtown River Walk, and it does it from a parade of illuminated floats on the river itself. The result is a Christmas that […]
Houston does Christmas without pretending to be a snow globe. There is no reliable snowfall, and nobody here expects one. What Houston does offer is scale: one of the country’s biggest zoo light shows, a stadium’s worth of lights in Sugar Land, an ice-sculpture world an hour away in Galveston, a 55-foot tree over an […]
Dallas does Christmas on a big, warm, Texas scale. There are no guarantees of snow, but there are garden lights by White Rock Lake, a classic downtown parade, an indoor ice rink wrapped around a towering tree, glowing animal lanterns at the zoo, and German-style market stalls a short drive away in Arlington. It is […]
