Interactive Map: Plot Your Favorite Holiday Light Displays around Fridley

Where are the best holiday light displays around Fridley? Plot your favorite homes, neighborhoods and streets to take in holiday lights on our interactive map. Please upload photos or videos to this post, too.

Patch.com is working to bring you an interactive map pointing you in the direction of holiday light displays in the Fridley area that you won’t want to miss, but we need your help. Whether you deck the halls and wish to draw light-gazers your way, know all of the best spots and want to share holiday cheer with your neighbors, or simply drive past light displays that are crying out for internet recognition, tell us about it. You can plot the address, descriptions and photos to the interactive map above by clicking on the Add button in the map's upper left. Or click through to add your pin at the Zeemaps.com site. And feel free to share holiday events in our calendar, tag announcements for our Holiday Guide and list your suggestions for …

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Ask a Patch Pro for Holiday Lighting Tips

Time to deck the halls and the house. Ask about creating a great display.

Enter Patch's “Deck the House” Contest for a Chance to Win $100,000 for Fridley-Area Schools

Did you decorate your house for the holidays this year? Enter our "Deck the House" contest and you could win $100,000 for your school district, and/or $500 to pay your electric bills!

Patch is launching our annual Deck the House Contest to find the most over-the-top holiday decorations in America—the best “decked” house in the country—the one home so spectacularly decorated that everyone in town jokes your holiday decorations could rival Rockefeller Center’s in New York City. If this sounds like your house, upload a photo or video of your home to our contest page from Nov. 26 to Dec. 16 to deckthehouse.patch.com/contest/fridley. Only residents of Patch towns are eligible to enter. We’ll select 24 regional finalists, and from them, pick one grand prize winner. Patch will pay up to $500 of the utility bill for each finalist, while our national winner will have $100,000 donated to his or her local school district. Our …

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Top Ten Ways to Entertain Family and Visiting Relatives

From skating at Roseville's Oval to shopping at Ax-Man in Fridley.

Small Business Saturday Fridley-Area Shopping Ideas

Let Fridley Patch help you shop locally—and share your small-business shopping ideas with your neighbors in comments.

Like to shop close to home at local businesses? Check the Fridley Patch business directory: Also check out the Coon Rapids Small Business Saturday Craft and Home Business Holiday Expo on Saturday from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Where do you like to shop for the holidays in the Fridley area? Share your ideas in comments below—or better yet, share your latest find by adding a photo to this post. More ideas for Fridley-area and small-business shopping:

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Extra Northstar Trains Running from Fridley for Holidazzle Parades

Passenger rail connections added for five Saturdays to and from Fridley Station. You can buy an $11 family pass online.

Ride the rails direct from Fridley to the Holidazzle parade in downtown Minneapolis this holiday season. The Target Holidazzle Parade is free. It starts at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday through Sunday from Nov. 23–Dec. 23, 2012. The parade route is along the Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis from 12th Street to Fourth Street. The special Northstar Commuter Rail trains to and from the Holidazzle parade on four Saturdays only: Nov. 24, Dec. 1, Dec. 8, Dec. 15 and Dec. 22, 2012. The train leaves from Fridley Station at 3:39 p.m. The return train leaves Target Field Station at 8 p.m. Holidazzle Family Passes for a round trip on the Northstar train from Fridley Station to downtown Minneapolis are available online. They cost $11 for two adults …

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