Lobster Trap Tree Lighting — Port Mouton

On Saturday, November 21, 2026, the village of Port Mouton switches on its Lobster Trap Christmas Tree for the tenth year, kicking off the holiday season on this stretch of the South Shore. The tree is exactly what the name promises — stacked lobster traps wrapped in strings of lights, standing on the Port Mouton waterfront — and the free community lighting ceremony has become the village's signature winter night. Tourism Nova Scotia promotes the display to a national audience, sharing video of the glowing trap tree every year, and the tenth-anniversary lighting is confirmed for November 21 on the official provincial holiday events listing. It is one of several lobster trap trees now standing in the province; our guide to Nova Scotia's lobster trap Christmas trees maps the rest.

The appeal is the combination: a working fishing harbour, fishing gear re-purposed as a Christmas tree, and a village that turns out to count the lights on. The ceremony is an evening affair — dress for November on the Atlantic coast, which means hats and mittens rather than holiday sweaters alone — and the surrounding waterfront is small enough that the tree dominates it completely, which makes photography straightforward and arriving before dark worthwhile. Port Mouton sits right on the Highway 103 corridor, minutes from the white-sand beaches of the Kejimkujik National Park Seaside Adjunct, so the lighting pairs naturally with a late-afternoon walk on the coast before the switch is thrown.

Make a weekend of it along the South Shore: Liverpool, ten minutes east, is the nearest service town for dinner and rooms, and the holiday calendar up and down the coast is in full swing by late November — the Christmas by the Sea market in Lunenburg and the Lunenburg Christmas Craft Festival are both fixtures of the early-holiday season. See our South Shore region guide for the full drive, including where the season's other trap trees stand.

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