🎄Light Up Lead🎄
Show off your holiday spirit by entering your home or business in our friendly lights competition! ✨ Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd in each category—money and bragging rights included! Let’s make our mountain town sparkle brighter than ever this season!
Sign up or take a stroll through town to enjoy all the festive lights!
2025 🎄 Light Up Lead 🎄contestants are as follows (addresses will be listed as they register):
Business:
- The Radiance Room - 601 W. Main Street, Suite B
Residential:
2025 Light Up Lead Winners: (TBA on December 11th)
Registration links:
Click here for Business Registration - OPEN for 2025
Click here for Residential Registration - OPEN for 2025
Ace Hardware of Lead has generously donated the cash prizes for this year's competition. In addition, they are offering a 20% discount on your Christmas decorating supplies. Just tell them you're part of Light Up Lead at checkout to receive your discount.
Light up Lead Rules & Regulations
Schedule:
Registration & decorating: 11/1-11/30
Lights on: 12/1-31
Judging: 12/8 - 12/10
Prize announcement: 12/11 at the Shop Local Mixer @ Miners & Merchants Trading Post from 4 to 6pm.
Registration:
-Your address (not name) will be placed on our map of participants (for tourists to visit Lead).
Prize:
Cash prizes will be awarded to 1st, 2nd & 3rd for Best Overall for both Residential & Business entries.
Judging:
Judging will take place with a panel of several judges from December 8-10th, 2025. Judges will not have access to participants' names, only their addresses. Participants will be judged based on the following criteria on a scale of 1 to 5 (5 being the best).
Business judging Categories: Merriment, Brightness, & Use of Space
Residential Categories: Brightness, Merriment, Overall.
Winners will be announced at our December LACC Mixer at Miners & Merchants on December 11th at the Shop Local Wrap-Up Party. Need not be present to win.
Rules:
• This competition is open to any business and residential address in Lead. Entries must be within city limits.
• Judging is done by a panel of local residents and business owners.
• Judges and LACC Board of Directors are not eligible to win - though they are encouraged to participate!
Participants are asked to leave their lights on from December 1-31 from dusk until 10pm (minimum) so that the town can enjoy their efforts.
2025 Annual sponsors: City of Lead, Black Hills Energy, Lynn’s Dakotamart, Coeur Wharf, Homestake Mining Company, Dakota Gold Corp & Kiewit-Alberici Joint Venture, Ace Hardware of Lead