Escape from the seasons in the visitor center for cocoa in the auditorium where musicians perform free 6:30-8:30pm. This year explore an 11-foot giraffe covered in 9,000 lights. Amble past displays of swimming geese and flying cardinals, watch a hungry bunny stalk a gardener sowing seeds and tremble at the sparkling monster. 9 More than 940,000 lights bloom this walk-thru illuminated interpretation of the four seasons. $14/F-Su $12/Tu-Th: 30 14th Annual Garden of Lights at Brookside Seneca Creek State Park, 11950 Clopper Rd., Germantown. This year, buy a pair of optical glasses for a new view on the animated and illuminated vignettes. The 3.5-mile, illuminated road features more than 380 light displays - including 65 animated vignettes - capturing the winter woods, teddy bearland, a Victorian village and the North Pole. 1 Drive into an enchanted forest at Gaithersburg’s 15th annual Winter Lights Festival. $5/car or van $10/multi-visit pass $15/mini-bus $25/bus free Dec. For a frugal and festive holiday, buy a multi-visit pass that grants you admission to the twinkling drive three times for the price of two trips ($10). Help spread the holiday cheer by bringing canned goods to donate to local food banks. New this year: a centerpiece tree, a dancing forest and a holiday riverboat. Over a million lights form dazzling displays of archways, fairytale characters and holiday scenes. 1 Cruise a 2.5-mile loop thru Watkins Park’s winter wonderland. $20/car: 41 to save on your illuminated excursion, go online for coupons. 6-10pm at Symphony Woods, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia. The dazzling drive benefits Howard County General Hospital. This year, groups stroll thru the park on guided walks Nov. Drive the 1.4-mile path thru toy soldier displays, Mother Goose vignettes and Santa’s workshop at the 17th annual festival. 2 More than 70 gigantic light sculptures and elaborate animated scenes line the Symphony Woods in Columbia. $14/car $50/bus $3/3D admission while supplies last.
5-10pm rain or shine, including holidays at Sandy Point State Park. Clip Bay Weekly $4 discount coupons for weeknight trips. Come a day early for a new perspective at the Dashing thru the Show 5K run (Nov. For a romantic night, call the Annapolis Carriage Company for a moonlight ride thru the illuminations (41). More magic: during the drive, your car radio picks up Santa’s Christmas signal. 25) and Saturdays and Sundays in December, Santa sits with kids to hear holiday wishes (5-10pm thru Dec. Kids hunt for clues on a driving scavenger hunt. With Holospex glasses, the show becomes 3-D with secret, hidden images.
Cruise thru two twinkling miles to see North Pole scenes, a twinkling Up North Village scene, Candy Cane Lane, a giant 16-foot, red, teddy bear, midshipmen and Chessie, the Bay monster. 2 Lights on the Bay transforms Sandy Point State Park into a gleaming winter wonderland, featuring more than 60 elaborate animated displays. Pay for passage aboard the Winterfest Express and tour the mile-long illuminated boardwalk, featuring a classic carol soundtrack ($4/riders 10 & up free Christmas day). Enter the heated tent for hot cocoa, browse through Yukon Cornelius’ Gift Shop and sit with Santa at his beachside getaway for a photo (ends Dec. and Isle of Wight Bay, where luminous displays of the Twelve Days of Christmas and fairytale friezes lead you to the Winterfest Village. Take a turn down Baltimore Ave., from 15th to 32nd streets, through the Avenue of Trees, featuring elaborate illuminated wreaths and old-fashioned decorations.
Start your tour at the inlet lot, traveling through the Tunnel of Lights, a gleaming archway of 800,000 tiny bulbs. 2 See shining lights by the seashore as Ocean City is first to turn on its holiday lights. By Diana Beechener Winterfest Lights up Ocean City
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