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All twelve houses on Ledgemont Court lit up for the 2025 season. All twelve. The city handed the court its Illuminate the Block award for it, and somewhere in Folsom a thirteenth neighbor is glad they live on a different street. If you’re in Lexington Hills, you already know the bar is high. Lexington Hills Christmas light installation is how plenty of your neighbors clear it without spending a Saturday on the roof.
The neighborhood that keeps winning
This is the strongest display area in town. Look at who won the city’s holiday lights contest in 2025.
- Ledgemont Court took Illuminate the Block, the multi-house prize. A home on the same court won the theme award the year before.
- A house on Thorndike Way won the Clark Griswold award for best use of lights, and the South Lexington Hills end of Thorndike entered as a group.
- A house on Rockport Circle won Holly Jolly Residence, which is best overall. Two of its neighbors entered too.
That’s three of the city’s top awards inside one neighborhood. We didn’t hang those displays and we won’t pretend we did. What we can tell you is that cars cruise these streets in December looking for them, and your house is on the route.
Nobody sets the dates in Lexington Hills
There is no homeowners association in Lexington Hills. Nobody sets a start date. Nobody mails you a letter about your reindeer. Want lights on the house the week after Halloween? Go ahead. Color instead of white, or both at once? Same answer.
We’d guess that’s part of why the displays here got so good. People could build them up year after year with nobody telling them to tone it down.
We still bring a little self-discipline. Timers shut things off late at night, and cords stay tidy, because your neighbor’s bedroom window is still your neighbor’s bedroom window.
What the houses and lots give us to work with
These homes were built from the late 1980s into the early 1990s, with some customs mixed in, and the lots run bigger than what Folsom builds now. On Waterboro Square and Endicott Square some of the cul-de-sac lots pass half an acre. More yard means more to light, and more distance from the street, so we go a size up on what faces the road.
Roofline lights first. Eaves, gutter runs, gables and peaks, all on clips. Composition shingle gets a clip under the tab. Tile gets a clip on the tile edge. No staples and no nails in either.
Then the trees, which are the real prize here. Thirty-odd years of growth and a good number of heritage oaks. Tree wraps on a mature trunk and its main limbs are what make people slow the car down. We tie them so the bark isn’t pinched, and they’re unwound in January, long before the tree starts pushing new growth. More on that at our tree lighting page.
The streets are hilly, and some lots have Sierra or valley views. A view lot works both ways. If you can see half the valley, a good chunk of it can see your roof peaks. We light the high lines on those houses on purpose.
Closer to the ground: pillar wraps on the porch posts, stake lighting beside the walk and driveway (set away from sprinkler heads), one big lit wreath up on the garage gable, and lit garland for the front door or the stair rail.
Lexington Hills Christmas light installation by phone
We quote over the phone at (916) 659-6549 or from photos sent through the contact page. We’ll ask about stories and roof material, then how far you want to take it. “Like Rockport Circle” is a perfectly good answer, and so is “just the front eave, please.”
We bring every light. Nothing to buy, nothing to store. In January we’re back to take it all off the house and out of the trees.
Something stops working mid-December? One call to (916) 659-6549 and it gets fixed.
We’re a family crew from right here in town, and (916) 659-6549 rings in a truck that passes Oak Chan Elementary and Castle Park most days in November, usually coming off South Lexington Drive or Oak Avenue Parkway. We also work next door in Willow Creek Estates, over in American River Canyon North and across the whole city of Folsom.
Planning to enter the city contest this year? Then don’t wait until December. Ledgemont Court didn’t.
What Lexington Hills neighbors ask us
Does anybody in Lexington Hills tell me when my lights can be on?
No. Lexington Hills has no HOA, so nobody dictates your start date or your end date. Our crew still clears the house in January.
Which Lexington Hills streets are known for Christmas lights?
Ledgemont Court, Thorndike Way and Rockport Circle each took an award in Folsom’s citywide contest in 2025. Ledgemont Court won the multi-house award with all 12 homes lit.
Can you wrap the big oak in my front yard?
Most of the time. The heritage oaks here are thick enough in the trunk to carry a wrap. We follow the trunk up and out along the main limbs as far as a ladder lets us, and it all gets unwound in January.
My lot is on a hill with a view. Does that change the plan?
A bit. Houses on view lots get seen from a distance, so we put more of the lighting on the upper eaves and peaks. Tell us about the slope when you call so we bring the right ladders.