Downtown Zion is hosting a really beautiful light show, Festival of Lights, we heard about from a friend. We decided to visit on a Saturday night after dinner with the kids. As we got closer to Shiloh Park where the exhibit is located, it started to snow. We found the entrance to the drive thru light displays, which is actually a service road. It was really pretty with the snow falling and the different displays. The kids favorite were the dinosaurs! I think we stopped and watch them for about 5 minutes! The archways and bridge were a big hit too. There are several places to stop and take pictures or enjoy the displays without disrupting the flow of traffic, which is very nice. As we drove out of the park we could see Santa’s Castle to the right. We decided to find a parking spot and get in line, so the kids could see Santa. As we walked in, we noticed the line to see Santa was very long. We decided to walk along the paths and see all the holiday decorated display cases. The path was decorated with little trees all lighted up for Christmas, like a seen right out of a movie. There was probably over 70 of them total. Each one was better than the last. I was so amazed at how much detail was put into each display case. Each one, lighted up and some had music and were even animated, and they were all labeled with who worked on the case and described what it was. We could take as much time as we wanted at each display, the kids enjoyed it as well, even though they were more excited to try and get to see Santa.
Kringle’s Kingdom is located right were the Zion pool is. Which I thought was kind of neat, because they had presents coming down the water slides and the pool all decorated for the holidays. By now, it was snowing pretty hard and was very windy. We decided to head home and drive thru the downtown area to look at the decorations. I can only imagine the man hours it took to wrap all of those trees in lights! Overall, we really enjoyed our short visit and hope to return before the exhibit is gone at the end of the year.

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