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Winter Lights Festival - Springs Preserve

You might want to head out the the Springs Preserve and view their Winter Lights Festival. The Winter Lights Festival will be open Friday through Sunday from 6 to 10 p.m. beginning Nov. 23. It will be open daily Dec. 24-30. Admission to only the Winter Lights Festival in the gardens is $4 for adults and $2 for children ages 5 to 17. The cost of admission for the gardens and galleries is $9 for adults and $4.50 for children ages 5 to 17. Admission for children 4 and younger and for annual pass holders is free.

The lights display in the 8-acre garden and throughout the Preserve will be created from half a million LED lights, a leading example of a sustainable holiday celebration, consuming 90 percent less electricity than conventional holiday lights.

Enjoy entertainment from more than 16 performing groups, including Chaparral High School orchestra, Cockroach Theater’s original puppet show “Dickens Done Over,” Raj Rathor, Beth Mullaney and Killian’s Angels, Boy Katindig, Helen Joy’s Young Entertainers, Harmony Ringers and Vegas Valley Swing Band. All are scheduled for the Preserve’s Courtyard Plaza, Garden Amphitheater and Tool Shed Theater throughout the holiday season.

Holiday-inspired refreshments from the Springs Café by Wolfgang Puck, such as homemade caramel-coated apples filled with praline and nutella, mini pecan pies and hot cinnamon-infused apple cider, will add to the festive atmosphere.

Here are a couple of pictures of the Garden area in the daylight.

The Courtyard Plaza