More than a million lights are glowing across 123 Farm in Cherry Valley as the property's Christmas Nights holiday event kicked off this week, with the show scheduled to run on select dates through January 3, 2027. The lavender farm has become a go-to Inland Empire stop for the season, pairing its fields of illuminated rows with Santa photo ops, a Christmas village and live music most weekends.
According to the farm's own listing, Christmas Nights runs Nov. 5, 2026 through Jan. 3, 2027 on select dates, with weekday hours from 5 to 10 p.m. and weekend hours from 2 to 10 p.m., per 123 Farm. As NBC Los Angeles reports, the event has some weeknight closures, and the farm asks visitors to check its calendar before planning a trip.
A Farm Transformed for the Season
The farm's lavender fields are strung with more than 300,000 shimmering lights, 123 Farm says, a centerpiece of the larger display. Edhat, covering the season's return, describes the total light count across the property as topping one million, with the lavender fields alone accounting for the 300,000-plus figure cited by edhat.com.
Among the attractions winding through those fields is an illuminated wagon ride that carries visitors to a 1,000-year-old oak tree, a roughly 15-minute trip according to the farm's listing. The same listing notes that visitors can meet Santa Claus during the season, though his availability varies by date and should be checked on the farm's site. Free, rain-or-shine Santa photos are scheduled on a specific set of dates running from Nov. 13 through Dec. 23.
A Christmas Village and Holiday Bites
123 Farm has built out a small Christmas village for the season, including Ebenezer Scrooge's Coal Foods Market, Gnome Depot and The Gingerbread Cottage, where guests can build a mini gingerbread house for an extra fee. USA TODAY's 10Best also lists a scavenger hunt and a holiday maze among the farm's seasonal attractions, alongside tractor-pulled wagon rides, per 10best.usatoday.com.
Food options at the event include sourdough pizzas, brisket mac and cheese, poutine, tiramisu, Christmas cookies and s'mores, according to NBC Los Angeles's rundown of the season. Live entertainment rounds out the evenings, with local musicians booked every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, plus added weeknight sets during Thanksgiving week and the week before Christmas, per the farm's listing.
Tickets, Timing and a Rain-or-Shine Policy
123 Farm advises buying tickets online in advance, warning that popular nights sell out and that gate prices run higher on the nights when tickets remain available at all. Ticket pricing varies across sources: NBC Los Angeles reports tickets starting at $8 on weeknights, while Edhat similarly cites an $8 online starting price, and Mommy Poppins lists adult admission between $10 and $28 with separate pricing for kids and students, according to mommypoppins.com.
Edhat reports that the event runs rain or shine, with cancellations reserved for severe high winds. The farm sits at 10600 Highland Springs Ave. in Cherry Valley, per the same Edhat report. A prior-season listing from NBC Los Angeles had the 2025-26 run of Christmas Nights closed most Tuesdays as well as on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, though this year's full calendar of open and closed nights has not been detailed beyond the farm's instruction to check its site for select dates.
