It all depends if you want to get away from the holiday season, or if you like to embrace it. There are a couple of places that celebrate the season with charm and excitement. In the city of North Pole, Alaska, Christmas is at the forefront with the annual North Pole Christmas Ice Contest, which attracts ice sculptors from all around the world.
There is a winter festival complete with events and fireworks. Within the North Pole, there are two full-service campgrounds as well as tent sites located in North Pole Park. New York, New York, is quite enticing during the holiday season, and they work the whole she-bang in the big apple.
There are the tree and ice skating at Rockafeller Plaza, the Rockette’s Radio City Christmas spectacular show, broadway shows, and the New York City ballet’s, The Nutcracker.