The 2025 Hastings light show tour is officially up! Spread across three different routes, homes and businesses decorated for the holidays can be found across the city ready for viewing.
From string lights to inflatables to projectors, residents across town have gotten into the holiday spirit and want to share it with you.
A full list of addresses for the tour can be found at the end of this article, as well as on the City of Hastings website.

String light collection
A reality that faces many holiday decorators is broken string lights. From missing bulbs to partially lit strings, there are many reasons why string lights can break. For those with a tangle of broken lights, they can be dropped off at the Hastings Parks and Recreation Department Office at 920 10th St. through Jan. 3 to be recycled.
String lights are not able to be recycled with normal items like glass and cardboard. Instead they must be taken to specialized recycling sites like The Recycling Zone in Eagan.
When string lights end up in a traditional recycling plant like Eurika Recycling, they get tangled in machines, can cause fires and often must be removed by hand.
Extension cords, string lights, hoses, plastic bags and even bedsheets are all items that are considered “tanglers” because they get tangled within recycling machinery and stop them from operating, said Joanna Stone, Director of Customer Relations at Eureka Recycling in a recent virtual tour of the facility.
“When they end up in the facility, they get tangled around the equipment so they have to stop the equipment. It’s a major delay […] but then a person has to go in and hand cut it from the machinery that is twice their size which is super, super dangerous,” said Stone.
Tanglers generally are a continuing issue for recycling plants like Eureka because of the dangers associated with removing them by hand and how they can stop the entire plant from operating. Beyond string lights, the most common type of tangler is plastic bags, which cannot be recycled even though many residents across the Mmetro try.
“There is not a single county in the Twin Cities metro area that is instructing residents to recycle plastic bags. In fact, it is a huge problem across the entire metro area, and we are begging people to stop putting them in their recycling carts,” said Stone.
Even putting recycling into plastic bags can be dangerous for recycling plants and has stopped some plants from using the recycling stored within them.
Eureka “has stopped opening up plastic bags if there’s recycling in them. It’s too much of a worker safety hazard,” said Stone.
So through Jan. 3, residents can properly recycle string lights by bringing them to the Hastings Parks and Recreation office at 920 10th St.
An interactive map of the three holiday lights routes along with a full list of addresses can be found on the City of Hastings website at www.hastingsmn.gov/parks-recreation-arts/events/holiday-lights-tour
Addresses listed on the Hastings route include:
51 Meggan Drive
15213 Ravenna Trail
3138 Olson Drive
597 Tuttle Drive
9055 Indian Blvd. S.
7048 150th St. E.
1957 Oak St.
26 Three Rivers Drive
1517 Forest St.
1343 15th St. W.
1314 19th St. W.
1330 16th St. W.
1450 Fourth St. W.
1622 Forest St.
1310 17th St. W.
1306 Lyn Way
1355 Westview Drive
933 5th St W.
508 Eighth St. W.
427 Vermillion St.
182 Riverdale Drive
816 Fifth St. W.
907 Third St. W.
601 Third St. E.
1311 Eagle Bluff Ct.
1175 Nininger Road
216 Second St. E.
6063 160th St. E.
150 Third St. E.