Holiday Lighting in Lake Oswego, OR
RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Crews head out from our Portland / Tigard office to light homes and businesses in Lake Oswego with professional-grade LED, in white or multicolor. Lights are cut to fit the roofline and go up on clips alone, with the house taking neither nail nor screw. The lights are leased for the season and remain ours, and we store them once the season closes. Connections are weather-rated.
Call (503) 255-2532 for a free on-site estimate.
The tree lighting at Millennium Plaza Park
The City’s Parks & Recreation page lists the 62nd Annual Tree Lighting Festival for Friday, November 27, 2026, from 3 pm to 7 pm at Millennium Plaza Park, 200 1st Street. The Millennium Tree Lighting Ceremony is listed for 5:30 pm. The listing also names a holiday marketplace, photos with Santa, reindeer and show-choir performances.
For the 2025 edition, the City’s page, in the copy the Internet Archive saved in November 2025, called it the 61st anniversary of a “time-honored tradition,” and the Lake Oswego Review reported on December 1, 2025 that the 61st annual event was held on Friday, November 28, at Millennium Plaza Park. In a preview of November 21, 2025, the Review quoted the City’s Parks and Recreation events coordinator on who decorates the plaza: the parks crew “does an amazing job,” and “They decorate the entire plaza, they wrap the tree.” Organizers can change dates, and the festival is the City’s and the Chamber of Commerce’s, not ours.
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Light Up Lake Oswego, the Review’s decorating contest
On November 24, 2025 the Lake Oswego Review announced the fourth annual 2025 Light Up Lake Oswego Holiday Decorating Contest, run by the paper with two local businesses, with nominations open through Monday, December 15 and reader voting beginning December 17. The contest is the newspaper’s, and none of it is ours.
When a neighborhood sets its own display window
Some Lake Oswego communities write their own rules for when decorations go up and come down. The Mountain Park Homeowners Association’s Standards for Home Maintenance, in the edition dated April 1, 2020, say exterior displays of winter holiday decorations, including decorative lights, are “permitted to begin on Thanksgiving and must be removed by January 31 of the following year.” For other holidays the same section says decorations are “permitted two (2) weeks prior to the holiday and must be removed seven (7) days after the holiday.”
The Village on the Lake homeowners association’s posted standards give a window of one month before a holiday and up to one month after it, on a page that carries no date. The Lake Oswego Terraces Condominiums Owners Association’s Rules & Regulations, amended March 2019, say holiday decorations “must be removed within 15 days after the holiday.” Each of those is one community’s rule for its own members. None of them is the City’s, and we do not set or enforce any of them.
Lake lots and parking lots
The Lake Oswego Corporation’s declaration, in its Rules and Regulations Handbook updated February 6, 2024, says owners of lots with lake privileges “shall restrict lighting visible from Oswego Lake or from other Lots to shielded lighting directed at such owner’s own Lot.” That is a general lighting rule for lots with lake privileges, and it is silent on holiday or seasonal lighting.
The City’s lighting standards, LOC 50.06.004.3, in the copy the Internet Archive saved in February 2022, cover streets, public pathways and accessways, open air parking lots and lots in the PF and PNA zones. Their open-air parking-lot rules bar “Bare bulbs and strings of lights, except for traditional holiday lights during the respective holiday period.” That sentence is about parking lots.
Power lines and outdoor cords, from PGE
The City’s emergency preparedness menu sends its Electric Service link to Portland General Electric. PGE’s Outdoor Safety page tells readers to stay “at least 20 feet away from power lines” with themselves and their equipment, and to use “heavy-duty, grounded, three-pronged” extension cords, which it says should be “rated for outdoor use.” It is a general outdoor safety page, not a holiday page, and those are PGE’s words, not ours.
Lake Oswego’s houses, by the Census count
Lake Oswego has an estimated 18,140 housing units in the Census Bureau’s 2024 five-year estimates. That includes 1,438 units in buildings of 50 or more (7.9 percent), 1,413 attached one-unit homes (7.8 percent) and 11,082 detached one-unit homes (61.1 percent). Those are counts of housing units, and they say nothing about rooflines.
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What the job involves
Estimate. The free estimate happens on site, at your home or business.
Install. Installation continues through December, with lights cut to the roofline and attached by clips alone, so the house never takes a nail or a screw.
Repairs and takedown. Mid-season repairs are part of the service. When the season ends the lights come down, and they go into our storage.
Where we light in Lake Oswego
We light throughout Lake Oswego.
Lake Oswego holiday lighting questions
When can decorations go up in Mountain Park?
The association’s Standards for Home Maintenance, April 2020 edition, say winter holiday displays are permitted to begin on Thanksgiving and must be removed by January 31 of the following year. That is Mountain Park’s rule for Mountain Park, and later editions are the association’s to provide.
Do the lights become mine?
No. The lights are leased by the season and stay ours. Between seasons they sit in our storage.
Who is on the crews, and what insurance stands behind them?
Our crews are our own employees. The crews carry workers’ compensation as well as general liability coverage, and a certificate is available upon request.
Do you light commercial buildings in Lake Oswego?
Yes, commercial holiday lighting is part of the work, next to residential.
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