Holiday Festival Lights Up Natchitoches

One of the state's oldest towns is a beautiful holiday destination, with spectacular lights and festivities from mid-November until after New Year's Day. By ExploreLouisiana.com Staff Don't miss the fireworks display over Cane River during the annual Natchitoches Festival of Lights. The festive holiday crowds enjoy the Christmas spirit in Natchitoches during the Festival of Lights. Natchitoches (NACK-a-tish) has been called the “City of Lights” since 1927, when the city’s chief electrician decided that stringing Christmas lights along Front Street would be a nice gift to the town's residents. His gesture has evolved into thesix-week-long Natchitoches Christmas Festival, one of the longest-running holiday celebrations in America.Each November, the area is transformed into the ultimate winter wonderland: Decorations and thousands of lights set downtownthe scenic Cane River Lake aglow. People from far quarters flock to the town for the annual Christmas Festival of Lights — a beautiful rea...