Share Your Holiday Light Displays In Reston Patch's 2024 Photo Gallery

RESTON, VA — AJ, a reader from Reston, shared photos of Christmas lights he spotted off of Hunter Mill Road near the one-lane bridge and Nova Wild Zoo.

Patch and T-Mobile are partnering to help you compile a list of lights around Reston that deserve a visit.

There’s a good reason twinkling holiday lights and colorful displays make us feel good, according to mental health experts.

“It does create that neurological shift that can produce happiness,” Psychologist Deborah Serani, a senior professor at New York’s Adelphi University, told NBC’s “Today” show. “I think anything that takes us out of our normal habituation, the normal day in, day out ... signals our senses, and then our senses measure if it’s pleasing or not.”

Decorating for the holidays “will spike dopamine, a feel-good hormone,” she said. “For a lot of us, Christmas is a magical time, it’s a time of innocence. It’s a time of joy.”

So who has the best light displays in Reston? Email reston@patch.com and let us know the address. Also please send a photo (that you took yourself) to appear in our holiday roundup!