This guide focuses Winter holiday celebrations in the Washington DC metropolitan area.

All Around Tours, Inc. trip in conjunction with Frederick Community College.

The Audubon Holiday Fair, rated "the most creative of all holiday fairs" by The Washington Post, is renowned in the mid-Atlantic region as a premiere show featuring fine and functional nature art and crafts.

(December 1, 2001 - Bethesda, MD) - The Bethesda Urban Partnership, Inc. will showcase local elementary schools and children's cultural groups at Bethesda's Winter Wonderland, on Saturday, December 1, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. The event will take place at Bethesda's Metro Center and the Newlands Building Plaza located at the corner of Old Georgetown Road and Wisconsin Avenue.

This enchanting program is filled with traditional celebrations, special events, private visits and stays in two top-rated hotels.

The Official Site of the Christmas Pageant of Peace -- the lighting of our national Christmas tree.

For 79 years, the American tradition of lighting a national Christmas Tree has continued, interrupted only briefly in its history during moments of great national travail.

More than 300,000 colored lights shine during the Festival of Lights at the Washington Temple Visitors' Center (9900 Stoneybrook Dr., Kensington)

In early December, the Parks & Recreation Department, in conjunction with the Downtown Fairfax Coalition , holds its annual Festival of Lights & Carols. Activities include sleigh/hayrides, yule log, holiday illumination of the downtown Historic District, evening of caroling, lighting of City tree, family holiday activities, refreshments and Santa Claus. Singers close the evening with traditional carols. The festivities are held in downtown historic Fairfax.

enjoy santa claus and his friend, frosty the snowman, as families gather at the beautifully decorated Good Knight Christmas Kingdom for a unique program full of superb magic tricks, funny props, lots of audience participation and close up illusions! Pizza, hot dogs, soup and refreshments are available for your enjoyment during the show. Gift shop open for last minute shopping. two shows: 330-530 and 630-830 reservations required. seats limited. $8 in advance $10 at door.

Our trademark candlelight processional and recessional is the only one of its kind at a Kennedy Center Christmas Concert. No other chorus envelops its audience in the warm glow of more than a hundred shimmering candles as the singers sensitively fill the hall with the carols of Christmas. No other conductor leads a more rousing sing-along or establishes a warmer audience rapport than music director Don McCullough. From no other Christmas concert will you depart feeling more prepared to appreciate the peace, joy and wonder of the holidays.

Each year by driving through Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville. You'll find more than two miles of lighted entertainment, including lit displays of Noah's Ark, Santa's Woods, and Angel's Playground. Open every night—except New Year's Eve—from 5:30 to 10:30. Each carload of visitors is $12; commercial vans (15 to 34 people) are $25, and buses (holding 35 or more) are $50. Discount coupons are available on the show's Web site.

The City of Gaithersburg's Sixth Annual Winter Lights--A Celebration for Charity, at Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, will open December 1, 2001. The Winter Lights Program has attracted more than a half million visitors from the metropolitan area and beyond in its first five seasons. This 3.5-mile drive-through Seneca Creek State Park light show features more than 250 illuminated displays, 55 of which are animated.