If you haven’t been to see “Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo” you’ve missed something spectacular. If you have seen them, we bet you’ll come back to again and again to ooh and aah and get in the holiday spirit.
You can help the display be named the Best Zoo Lights in the US by USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice, by voting once a day until noon on Monday, December 4. Click here to vote for Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo.
The Detroit Zoo is competing with 20 other zoos for the title.Right now our zoo is in third place. Wild Lights at the Saint Louis Zoo is in first and Christmas at the Zoo at the Indianapolis Zoo is in second.You can watch the leaderboard by clicking here.
We know the Detroit Zoo has the best lights. Check out these pictures.
USA Today describes the lights this way.
“For 24 nights throughout the holiday season, the Detroit Zoo gets bedecked with holiday cheer during Wild Lights. More than 5 million LED bulbs illuminate trees, buildings and some 230 animal sculptures. Guests can watch Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 4-D, go ice skating in the Winter Rink or get a photo taken with Santa.”
Last year “Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo” took second place in the Best Zoo Lights in the US contest.Let’s make them No. 1 this year.
Don’t forget to vote.
“Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo” runs November 18-19, 24-26; December 1-3, 8-10, 15-17, 20-23, 26-31 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on weeknights and Sundays and from 5:30 pm. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Tickets sold in advance (either online or on site at Customer Care during daytime Detroit Zoo hours) will range from $10 to $16 throughout the 24-night run of the event. Walk-up tickets sold at the gate for all nights and time slots will be $16. Parking is $7 per car. Children younger than 2 are admitted free.
Click here to buy tickets and for more detail in the display.