Holiday displays light Oklahoma
BY KEVIN ADKISSON
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Published: December 7, 2008
The lighting display in Ardmore is one of the largest in southern Oklahoma.
Here’s a short list of some of the holiday light displays you won’t want to miss this season.
Christmas in the Park in
Yukon is a 100-acre holiday light extravaganza that stretches across three interconnecting parks and features more than 125 light displays and 1 million lights. This drive-through display is open seven days a week through Dec. 31 in City Park. Events include the annual
Kris Kringle Karnival, Chill Your Cheeks Fun Run, lighting of Christmas in the Park, horse-drawn wagon rides, live Christmas music, train rides, games, face painting, free refreshments, drawing for prizes and photos with Santa.
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Find more than 100 displays, many of them animated, at
Ardmore’s fourth annual Festival of Lights through Dec. 30 at Ardmore Regional Park.
Chickasha’s Festival of Light offers more than 3 million lights in a 43-acre park. Walk or drive through the park and find concessions, carriage rides and shopping. The Festival of Light at Shannon Springs Park will be open through Dec. 31.
With more than 2 million lights,
Kingfisher in Lights in Kingfisher Park will be open through Dec. 30.
Midwest City’s Holiday Lights Spectacular offers more than 1 million twinkling lights and 85 displays.
Joe B. Barnes Regional Park is transformed into a winter wonderland that includes a 118-foot Christmas Tree and a 200-foot-long tunnel of lights. This display will be open through Dec. 30.
Don’t miss the Victorian Walk at
Guthrie’s Territorial Christmas Celebration. On Dec. 13 and Dec. 20, local citizens don Victorian clothing and interact with guests as they walk the beautifully lighted and decorated streets of downtown Guthrie. Other features of the Territorial Christmas Celebration, taking place through Dec. 21, include candlelit trolley tours, carriage rides, decorated Christmas tree display, Victorian holiday home tours and productions at the
Pollard Theatre and the Double Stop Fiddle Shop and Music Hall.
Muskogee has two holiday attractions this year. The Garden of Lights Festival runs through Jan. 1 and includes a drive-through display of more than 1 million lights in Honor Heights Park. Displays include a giant entrance tunnel of lights and a wide variety of wildlife animations. Then there’s the Christmas Kingdom Holiday Inflatables display at The Castle of
Muskogee with more than 1,000 Christmas inflatables.
Oklahoma City’s winter celebration Downtown in December continues through Jan. 4. Experience outdoor ice skating, snow tube rides down the nation’s largest manmade slope, water taxi excursions along the winding
Bricktown Canal, a botanical garden, Museum Sundays and plenty of holiday cheer for the entire family.
Kevin Adkisson is database support coordinator for the state Tourism and Recreation Department.
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