Little Falls Christmas Tours: A Holiday Guide
For a stretch of days after Thanksgiving, the town's historic buildings open their doors dressed for Christmas, an aviator's home, a lumber baron's mansion, and a museum full of trees among them.
They are self-guided holiday tours of historic Little Falls landmarks decorated for Christmas, held over the days following Thanksgiving into December. Each site takes its own theme. Locations, hours, and admission are set each year — check littlefallschristmastours.com before you go.
The town at Christmas
Little Falls has more historic buildings than a town its size usually keeps, and once a year it puts them to festive use. Over the days after Thanksgiving, several of the landmarks you would tour in summer reopen decorated for the holidays, each to its own theme, and you move between them at your own pace. It is the kind of low-key, genuinely local tradition that a small river town does better than a city.
The stops
The lineup has centered on a familiar set of historic sites, each dressed differently:
- Linden Hill Historic Estate — the Weyerhaeuser and Musser mansions decorated room by room, a highlight covered in the museums guide.
- Minnesota Fishing Museum — a "Christmas Tree Lane" of dozens of decorated trees and displays.
- Charles Lindbergh House & Museum — the aviator's boyhood home given a holiday theme.
- The Rosenmeier Home — another of the town's historic houses opened for the season.
The exact dates, which sites take part, their hours, and admission are set fresh each year, and some are ticketed. Confirm the current-season details at littlefallschristmastours.com or through Little Falls Chamber & Tourism.
The rest of the season
The Christmas Tours open the holiday stretch on the Little Falls events calendar. For the buildings themselves year-round, see Museums and Historic Sites of Little Falls.
Michael Paycer
Michael Paycer grew up in Little Falls, Minnesota. Today he is a Senior SQL Server Database Administrator Consultant based in Saint Cloud, and he keeps this Little Falls guide as a personal project about his hometown.
Sources & further reading
- Little Falls Christmas Tours — official site
- Visit Little Falls — Christmas Tours
- Explore Minnesota — Little Falls Christmas Tours
External sites are provided for reference. Event dates, hours, and admission change annually — confirm current details with the official source before visiting.