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Light up your holiday season with an adventure to the Detroit Zoo Wild Lights. This spectacular display of 265 sculptures, trees, and buildings is comprised of more than five million LED lights! Wild Lights illuminates the zoo for 24 nights throughout November and December.
Check out this preview of the Detroit Zoo Wild Lights before you take your trip:
Are you looking for a Halloween destination that’s all fun, and no fright? The Detroit Zoo’s “Zoo Boo” is the place for you. The “merry-not-scary” event is sure to bring Halloween excitement to your entire family!
Held the first three weekends in October, “Zoo Boo” offers a festive selection of fun Halloween attractions. Live entertainment acts include daring acrobatics, magic acts, live music, extreme pumpkin carving demonstrations, and more.
Guests of all ages are invited to wear their costumes and collect sweets by trick-or-treating along the pumpkin-lined “unlucky” 13-station trick-or-treat trail. Join the Detroit Zoo on their Green Journey by bringing your own trick-or-treat bag; bags will not be handed out at the event.
Check out our “Zoo Boo” video and get a preview of all the Halloween fun!
This summer, the Detroit Zoo in Oakland County is going prehistoric with the famous Dinosauria exhibit. The largest outdoor dinosaur exhibit of its kind in the country, Dinosauria features over 40 lifelike animatronic dinosaurs that shift, roar, and spit. The zoo’s most exciting summer attraction, presented by the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, began on May 25th and runs through September 3rd, 2018.
Check out this video to see this zoorassic world in action!
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners has partnered with the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, MI for the 6th annual GreenFest on Saturday, April 14, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. GreenFest is as a zoo-wide event dedicated to celebrating Earth Day and a wonderful way to engage the community in environmental stewardship.
On April 14, GreenFest will feature a sustainability tour of the Detroit Zoo’s anaerobic digester that annually converts 500 tons of animal manure and other organic waste into methane-rich gas to help power the zoo’s animal hospital, educational rain gardens, farm-to-table food options, a composting program, and other initiatives. They will have myriad activities such as chemistry demonstrations, zookeeper talks, opportunities to create window decals to prevent bird strikes, and much more. A 16-foot ground-mounted solar system called the SmartFlower™ will be featured blooming in the zoo’s garden just east of their Carousel. The system is expected to generate more than 4,000 kilowatts of electricity annually, which will power the 36-foot ride as well as other areas of the Detroit Zoo.
Thank you for your interest in The Detroit Zoo Wild Lights. For the Oakland County Blog’s latest edition of Wild Lights, see here.
Brighten your holiday season with a trip to the Detroit Zoo! They’ll be lighting up the nights again this holiday season with Wild Lights! You can view the spectacular light display of over five million LED lights for 24 nights in November and December. The bright and festive lights will illuminate trees, buildings, and more than 230 animal sculptures throughout the front half of the Zoo.
New features for this year include nearly 600 light tubes that sway to music, an Antarctic-themed projection on the Polk Penguin Conservation Center, and a bug display.
Wild Lights will be held from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. on:
Purchasing advanced tickets is recommended and can be done at the front gate or online. Tickets sold in advance range from $10 – $16. Walk-up tickets sold at the gate for all nights and time slots are $16. Parking is $7 per vehicle. Children younger than 2 are admitted free.
The Wild Lights pathway will allow you to view the Otter Habitat, the Beaver Habitat, the Reptile House, and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition in the Ford Education Center. All other animal habitats and buildings will be closed for the evening.
Carousel rides and photos with Santa Claus will also be available for purchase and the Arctic Cafe will be open for food and beverage purchases as well.
The Rudolph Package, which includes one untimed admission for Wild Lights and one ticket to the 4-D Theater to see “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 4-D”, is $18 for any night of the event.
The Winter Rink Package, which includes one untimed admission for Wild Lights and one session on the skating rink, is also $18.
Experience the magic of the holiday season with Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo. It’ll be a night to remember for little kids, kids at heart, and everyone in between!
For more information, visit the Detroit Zoo online and follow along with them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the Detroit Zoo Blog.
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