DENVER (KDVR) — Denver was awash in holiday spirit on Friday night as the city held its Mile High tree lighting, the first of its nightly holiday drone shows and the first day of the Christkindlmarket, and with that comes a lot of holiday lights.
For many, Thanksgiving marks the start of the Christmas holiday: Putting up decorations, wrapping and buying gifts, and spending some time with family.
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It also marks the start of Colorado’s marathon holiday lights tradition.
In Colorado, New Year’s Day is not the day the lights come down. Instead, people living in Colorado will leave their holiday lights and decorations up through January to help celebrate the state’s largest Western trade show: The National Western Stock Show…