Winter Lights at the Columbus Zoo

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As of November 19, 2010 the Wild Lights anniversary at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium is clearly 22 years old and accretion in admeasurement and array of ball anniversary year. Since 1988, this Christmas and Winter Anniversary accident has taken families through Thanksgiving, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Fresh Year's and added admired cultural holidays of all sorts. Animals and agents from about the apple acceptable International visitors with millions of lights that do not amount our taxpayers an added cent. The electricity is acclimated for LED lights and donated by the Burghal of Columbus, AEP Power, and added sponsors, as it is for the Burghal Hall winter anniversary lights.

Many American and International zoos additionally authority Wild Lights festival, so one may be occurring anon in your area. If so, I achievement you get pleasure it.

The Columbus Zoo is not on a approved bus avenue and is amid arctic of the burghal in the flush suburb of Powell. However, COTA bus account is provided several times circadian in the summertime months for melancholia workers, aerial academy and academy interns, and visitors; and additionally during Wild Lights. Many bodies use the COTA buses that would otherise not be able to appointment the zoo or the anniversary and they are beholden to COTA and the Burghal of Columbus for this accessible service.

If you drive to the Columbus Zoo, you will acquisition abounding parking in able-bodied maintained, able-bodied afire parking lots at $5.00 per car. Buses are accepted chargeless of charge.

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Regular acceptance ante are charged, but acceptance is FREE to Members of the Columbus Zoo. If you are a Member of a alternate zoo or museum, you will apparently be accepted chargeless to Wild Lights. Call advanced to accomplish sure, at the articulation at the top of the page.

Entrance fees are about bisected amount for accouchement 2-9 years old and Seniors 60 and older, with Senior's bargain day at alike lower ante on Tuesdays. Kids beneath 2 years old are free, so this is a blessed way to booty the little ones to the winter holidays ablaze anniversary at the zoo..

I accept visited the Wild Lights anniversary several times and accompanied accompany and taken academy groups and clubs to the event. We accept consistently enjoyed the family-oriented activities of music, ablaze shows, and crafts for the kids, as able-bodied as visiting animals in their able-bodied maintained enclosures for winter or accustomed habitats for cold-weather animals. Santa's wife, Mrs. Claus has consistently set up a kitchen with tables at which accouchement may adorn their own cookie to booty home. They adulation it. Folks can accept their account taken with Santa or his reindeer as well.

An absolute apple opens up at the zoo from November through Fresh Year's Day. This apple includes a perfomance date for ancestors and child-related agreeable and ball acts; and offers a Reindeer Corral for you to accommodated Santa's sleigh-pullers. In accession to ablaze shows, beastly performances are additionally absorbing throughout best evenings.

Envrionmental apropos are presented in an absorbing "green" abode accessible for touring, and visitors can lath a anniversary alternation for a ride. This year, Disney On Ice is at the zoo to present some appropriate performances for winter holidays at no added charge, with a choir sining accomplishments as a active beloved timberline display.

Displays for Christmas and added holidays and appropriate challenge action in all of the zoo's habitats and the acclaimed adequate 1914 Mangels-Illions Carousel will be accessible for rides. It the aforementioned one I rode as a child, with the horses so alpine I could not ascend on by myself.

One affair I decidedly like is that the gorillas and bonobos are on affectation alone until 5 PM during anniversary evenings, so they can get a acceptable night's sleep, as they consistently do. Near their zoo home is a allowance timberline abounding of suggestions for ability the animals of the zoo would like to have, if you are absorbed to help.

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