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Here’s how you can get a piece of an iconic, 30-year-old Utah holiday display

Forrest Nunley’s Avenues holiday display will not be put up this year.

(Trent Nelson  |  The Salt Lake Tribune) Forrest Nunley setting up his display, Frosty's Winter Wonderland, in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. Nunley and his family are selling his vast collection of decor at a yard sale on Saturday. Frosty's Winter Wonderland is officially retiring.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Forrest Nunley setting up his display, Frosty's Winter Wonderland, in Salt Lake City on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. Nunley and his family are selling his vast collection of decor at a yard sale on Saturday. Frosty's Winter Wonderland is officially retiring.

For 30 years, Avenues neighborhood resident Forrest Nunley has transformed his home into a bright holiday display.

But that tradition is coming to an end just ahead of the 2026 holiday season — and Utahns now have a chance at getting their own piece of Frosty’s Winter Wonderland since it is officially retiring.

On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Nunley family will host a yard sale at 805 E. 18th Ave. to get rid of their holiday collection. According to a post on Facebook marketplace advertising the sale, “every blow mold and decoration” will be up for grabs.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Frosty's Winter Wonderland in 2025.

For decades, Nunley has been collecting the blow molds from thrift stores and yard sales. He told The Salt Lake Tribune last December — his last time displaying his decorations — that his 320-mold collection spans decades.

In past years, every November, Nunley hired a three-person crew to help get all the decorations up. They took over every inch of his property, from the roof to the front yard. Many of the decorations sport chipped paint, a sign of the years of braving the elements to provide holiday cheer for all who come to visit.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Figures at Frosty's Winter Wonderland in 2025. The massive display will not return this year, but you can buy a piece of it at a yard sale on Saturday.

Nunley hinted to The Tribune last year that he was thinking of retiring his display soon, citing complaints from neighbors about traffic, and how long it takes to put everything up.

But for all these years, he said he has put the display on for one reason: to make people happy.

“That’s why we do it now, to see the families come up and enjoy being in the car together,” he said at the time. “They’re all very happy when they leave.”

The Nunleys ask for no early birds for the sale.

“If you are looking to own a piece of history, don’t miss out this weekend,” they wrote on Facebook. “We will have Christmas, antiques, vintage bikes, and a ton of other things.”

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Forrest Nunley setting up Frosty's Winter Wonderland in 2025, the display's final year.

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