Enter the annual Holiday Home Lighting Contest
The extremely popular Scripps Ranch News Home Lighting Contest has opened for the 2025 holiday season, sponsored this year by Laura Kay Stephens, Real Estate advisor and Megan Paige, Real Estate advisor, both from Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection.
These sponsors make it possible to conduct the Scripps Ranch lighting contest that has provided such a fun and festive experience for local residents the past five years. It has become a warm holiday tradition for all of Scripps Ranch to enjoy.
Anyone whose home is within Scripps Ranch and decorates the outside of their home with holiday lights this season is eligible to enter the contest. Prizes – provided by Laura Kay Stephens and Megan Paige of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Luxury Collection – will be awarded to the top entrants.
FUN HOLIDAY SELF-TOUR
The Home Lighting Contest not only allows entrants a way to showcase their outdoor light decorating skills, it provides a convenient opportunity for those who appreciate holiday light decorations to tour the outdoor home displays.
Scripps Ranch News will publish a map of entry locations in the December edition of the newspaper – and will provide updates online. Anyone can use the map (either the printed or online version) to plan a fun viewing tour of brightly decorated Scripps Ranch homes.
AWARD CATEGORIES
Five categories of awards will be included this year: Norman Rockwell Award, elegant displays that accentuate and coordinate with the beauty and elegance of the home; Clark Griswold Award, the most over the top lighting display; Grandma Got Run Over (by a Reindeer) Award, reminds me of my childhood – best classic holiday lights; Reason for the Season; and It Takes a Village (group) Award, best decorated group of homes – Gather the neighbors!
Judges will decide which category each entrant is in.
ENTRY RULES
All entry displays must be accessible to the public for street viewing.
Deadline to enter is Dec. 11, 2025.
Those who enter agree to keep their outside holiday decorations up and lit through Dec. 25, 2025.
Those who enter must email a photo of their outside holiday display to info@scrippsranchnews.com. Contest entrants should fill in the contest entry form online first, then email the image of their
lighted outdoor display afterward.
When judging is complete, the top displays will be photographed. The winners of the contest will be announced on ScrippsRanchNews.com on the morning of Jan. 1, New Year’s Day.
Photos of the winning displays will be published in the January edition of Scripps Ranch News. Those who enter agree that photos of their outside holiday home displays may be published in Scripps Ranch News and ScrippsRanchNews.com.
Those who enter agree that their home address may be published in Scripps Ranch News and online at ScrippsRanchNews.com.
Contest rules and other specifics are provided in the online entry form. Those who wish to enter the contest may fill in the form at scrippsranchnews.com/lighting-contest.