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Riverside Festival of Lights Named Best Holiday Festival!
Best Holiday Festival (2015)
In cities big and small across the United States, Thanksgiving marks the start of holiday festival season. From European-style Christmas markets to staggering displays of holiday lights, these 10 holiday festivals were chosen as the best in the nation by USA TODAY 10Best readers.
It was a hard-fought race between the top two, but the Riverside Festival of Lights edged out San Francisco's Great Dickens Christmas Fair for the win. The festival previously won the title of Best Public Lights Display in 2014.
The top 10 winners in the category Best Holiday Festival are as follows:
10Best Local Experts and Editors picked the initial 20 nominees, and the top 10 winners were determined by popular vote. Additional nominees for Best Holiday Festival included Christmas Village in Baltimore, Celebration in the Oaks, Cincideutsch Christkindlmarkt, Denver Christkindl Market, Dickens on the Strand, OC Winter Fest, Santa's Enchanted Forest, Savannah Harbor Holiday Series, Texas Christkindl Market and Winter Village at Bryant Park.
Congratulations to all of our winning festivals!
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10Best Local Experts provide users with original, unbiased, and experiential travel content of top attractions, things to see and do, and restaurants for top destinations in the U.S. and around the world. No business pays to be listed. Our Local Experts are well-traveled and well-educated group who are not only experts in their fields - and their cities - but discriminating in their tastes. These local experts live in the city they write about, with constantly updated content.