Tanglewood lights up
More than one million lights turned on this month.
Tanglewood Park’s annual Festival of Lights runs through Jan. 1.
The festival transforms a four-mile route in the park into a holiday light show. The show is one of the largest of its kind in the Southeast.
Park employees have been working since August to set up the 180 displays, from sparkling Christmas trees to glowing archways. It includes about 70 animated dis-.
plays.
Damon Sanders-Pratt, the special assistant to the manager of the park, said that several of the older displays were replaced this year with newer models.
“The park employees do a great job of throwing it together,” Sanders-Pratt said. “There is a lot of activity and excitement to get started.”
He said that more than 200,000 people in about 50,000 vehicles rode through the light show last year.
This is its 16th season for the festival, which started in 1992 with a 1.5- mile route and 25 displays.
The Festival of Lights is open from 6 to 11 p.m. each night.
People can sign up to take a hayride through the park or a horse-drawn carriage. Information on the rides and reservations are available by contacting the stables at Tanglewood Park.
For those who drive, admission Monday through Thursday is $9 for family cars, vans and trucks, $16 for commercial vans, limousines and mini buses and $80 for motor coaches and buses. Friday through Sunday, and on holidays, admission is $13 for family cars, vans and trucks, $21 for commercial vans, limousines and mini buses and $80 for motor coaches and buses.
By Blair Goldstein
| 
