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Winter City Lights Experience Washington DC
4.8
72 Ratings
Olney
Experience the magic of Winter City Lights in Washington DC, with over 1 million twinkling lights, a 1.5-mile trail, bonfires, snow tubing, and delicious food. Don’t miss this technologically advanced Christmas light show!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Winter City Lights - Winter City Lights is a magical, immersive Christmas lights experience of 1 million twinkling lights and 200,000 square feet of displays spanning 18 beautiful acres in a festive outdoor setting - the largest and most sophisticated Christmas lights and canopy show in the Washington DC area, Baltimore area, and the entire DMV-it is one of the largest in the country.
What's Included
- Scenic 1.5-mile holiday light trail
- Complimentary parking
- General admission to the event
- Access to cozy bonfire seating
What's Not Included
- Food & Beverage (available for purchase)
- Penguin Plunge Snow Tube Ride Sold Separately (Available Onsite $25)
Additional Information
Immerse yourself in a unique and enchanting holiday experience featuring over a million sparkling lights spread out over an 18-acre winter charmer, where a nightly snowfall is guaranteed. Touted as the largest and most mesmerizing light spectacle within Washington DC, Virginia, and Baltimore, Winter City Lights stands as one of the most sophisticated Christmas light displays in the United States.
Winter City Lights, further adorned with 33 cozy bonfires, offers a magical 1.5-mile Christmas lights and displays trail in the woods, a towering 52-foot Christmas tree featuring programmed light shows, a vast 200-foot diameter canopy adorned with Christmas lights, an exhilariting 8-lane snow tubing ride, delightful food stalls offering s’mores, hot chocolate, funnel cakes, fried Oreos, BBQ sandwiches, piping hot pizza, mouth-watering soft pretzels, adult beverages, illuminated toys and much more. The event runs on selected dates from November 18th to December 30th.
Location
Winter City Lights
4501 Olney-Laytonsville Road
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.8
(72 Ratings)
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224randallu
Jan 1, 2024
Lights , snow tubing and if it isn’t snowing they blow snow very cool experience. - It was awesome everyone had a great time. Lights where amazing Snow tubing on penguins plunder was so much fun. And it wasn’t snowing so in the area with the light show they blow snow cool.
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Inspire569917
Dec 22, 2023
Winter Wonderland ❄️🎄 - Loved walking through the woods and seeing the lights. The kids were so excited and just ran along the path. Enjoyed having a beverage to sip and sit by the fire.
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Gailrg5258hs
Dec 21, 2023
Highly recommended!! - Winter City Lights was so much fun!! We were supposed to go on a Sunday night, but it was canceled due to bad weather, so we ended up going on a Thursday night. There were barely ever any lines. The snow tubing is definitely worth paying for!! I could have done that all night. The walk through the lights was also tons of fun, and breathtaking. The variety of concessions was fantastic, and all the staff were kind. Can’t wait to go next year!
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Jarohome
Dec 20, 2023
A Great Christmas light show - Seems like millions of lights on a 1.5 mile trail. Beautifully done. They had concessions and pictures available as well. Easy in and out.
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Esther_p
Dec 10, 2023
Fun times ! - What a great time ! Display was epic! Lots to do! The fake snow was such a nice touch.
The concession lines are extremely long but they move quick but once you have ordered make sure to stay on top of them to assure your ticket number doesn’t get skipped over like ours did, however the attendant made sure to apologize.
Would def recommend going to this.
Buying from Viator was such a breeze !
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Excursion11765156679
Dec 10, 2023
Very Romantic and Worth It! - Winter City Lights is definitely worth it. The lights were amazing. The bonfires and snow flakes really set an amazing and romantic mood for my girlfriend and I. And she was chosen to hit the button to light the tree for the last time of the night...she was hella excited and happy! Alot of great places to take pictures and selfies. Only negative I can add was the adult coffee, I'll order the adult hot chocolate or apple cider next time. This is the best Xmas lights in the DMV hands down!!!
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Peterodover
Dec 12, 2023
Nice experience but not a Wow - My wife and I traveled a couple hours to experience Winter City Lights. Every year, we have been dazzled by the Longwood Gardens Christmas display and just thought we would try something different. We definitely did enjoy ourselves but, truthfully, we were not "wowed". It was a lengthy process to get parked, sign the release form and then show our tickets before we entered. The central display before the trail are the lights that are synchronized to Christmas music. We sat at a bonfire and enjoyed that experience. Since the food lines were so long, we passed on that and went right to the trail. The trail is fun, but since we were accustomed to Longwood Gardens, it did not wow us. The whole experience took about 90 minutes for us. I think if we had young children, it may have been more interesting. Still we gave it a "very good" rating.
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Z1694kytamaras
Dec 23, 2023
Not worth the money - The path was not lit well and the terrain was terrible for normal people to walk on. I watched people tumble over numerous times. The lights were boring, nothing jumped out and made you gasp with excitement.
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Brenda_m
Dec 20, 2023
Give it a pass. - The actual venue was beautiful. The lights were quite breathtaking. It's the signing up for the event that was a problem. The location was not given, and when I requested this info, I got a snarky response that the location was on the ticket. It absolutely was not. I had to dig for the information. Then the waiver was not sent to me, so I stood out in the freezing cold verifying I had not received it and took off my gloves to scan the code and fill out the form. No excuse for this. Others were complaining as well. Then there was another line to actually show the ticket.
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74lucilles
Dec 24, 2023
Misleading Advertisement - This event was not in DC. We found out at the last minute that it was in Maryland. Since we did not have transportation to get there, we couldn't attend and would like a full refund. We paid $62.40 for two tickets. Please call me at 703-994-5867 if you have questions.
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