East Cobb home holiday lights map Archives

East Cobb home holiday lights map

This is going to be a different holiday season during a time of pandemic, but that’s no reason we can’t share the same good cheer with family, friends and neighbors in some new and creative ways.

So this year East Cobb News is putting together a map — or maps, given the size of our community — of holiday light displays for your fellow East Cobbers to enjoy as they drive by in the safety of their cars.

We did something like this last year, asking readers to send in their light display photos, and we’d love to have you send them in again if that’s what you prefer.

But we want to expand the idea, given our present circumstances. Let us know what you are doing, where you are and when you expect to light it up—or if it’s a daytime-only display without lights, that’s fine too. We’ll make it clear this is a “drive-by” event only and ask viewers to be considerate on the roads. Ideally, evening displays will be available for viewing between dusk and 9 p.m.

During the holiday season, we will select displays to feature in East Cobb News and on our Instagram page.

The maps will be limited to our coverage area—which is actually quite large—and includes neighborhoods east of I-75 and I-575, in ZIP Codes 30062, 30066, 30067, 30068 and the Cobb portion of 30075.

So that’s why we say “maps”—there’s a lot of ground to cover, and we want to localize these displays as much as possible.

They’ll take some time to construct, and we’ll be adding to it as we hear of more displays, so let us know as soon as possible if you’d like us to map yours.

E-mail us with your information, photos, etc. at editor@eastcobbnews.com by Dec. 7; we’re aiming to post this by mid-December.