The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa lit up the sky Saturday night, Nov. 22, as the Festival of Lights started its 33rd year.

This year’s switch-on ceremony was dedicated to Duane Roberts, co-owner of the hotel who died earlier this month just before his 89th birthday . Roberts would typically attend the ceremony.

Fireworks over The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa during the annual Festival of Lights switch-on ceremony in Riverside on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)

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It marks the third time the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa Festival of Lights has begun the weekend before Thanksgiving. For decades, it launched the day after Thanksgiving .

The ceremony, in which more than 10 millio

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