Holiday Lighting in Santee, CA

Holiday lights for Santee homes and businesses are put up by our crews. Professional-grade LED strands, white or multicolor, are cut to fit the rooflines and held up by clips alone. The lights are leased by the season and never change hands; we put them in storage once the season ends. The connections are weather-rated.

A free on-site estimate is a call to (858) 939-0040 away.

Trolley Square, Town Center and the lights around Santee

The City lists Santee Holiday Lighting for Friday, November 20, 2026, at 5:30 pm, with the tree lighting at 6:15 pm at Santee Trolley Square, 9884 Mission Gorge Rd. It also lists Selfies With Santa at the same venue for Wednesday, December 2, 2026, at 4 pm. The East County Californian’s report on the 2017 event at Trolley Square quotes a City special events supervisor as saying “This is our 15th annual event.” Santee Lakes lists a Water Lantern Festival – Holiday Edition for December 12 and 13, 2026, from 2 pm to 7 pm. The City’s visitors page calls the Starlight Circle display resident-led and says it is “not a city-sponsored nor a city-sanctioned event”. In November 2020, East County Magazine described Starlight Circle as “a yearly holiday tradition of Christmas lights and decorations”.

The City says “The 700-acre Town Center district forms a downtown core”. Town Center Community Park West is at 9409 Cuyamaca Street, and the retail sheet lists Santee Town Center II along Town Center Pkwy. Santee Station is at 8840 Magnolia Ave.

How a lighting season goes

Estimate. We give it on site at no charge.

Hang. Installs continue through December.

Service. Should a strand or section go dark midseason, we return to repair it, and the lights come down after the season.

Workers’ compensation and general liability cover the crews doing the work; a certificate is available upon request.

Santee holiday lighting: what to know