Our fabulous Chinook weather weekend has offered us a fabulous oppoortunity to get outside and enjoy the many Christmas light displays around our city!
Of course there is the always spectacular ZooLights! But here is a list of some other fabulous displays around town.
Lake Chaparrel – This fabulous community association turns the big hill alive with color over the holidays creating a forest of Christmas Trees!
Arbour Lake – The trees surrounding the lake and the community centre all decorated all along- making it a great place to walk with the kids!
Airdrie Festival of Lights – This is probably the largest Christmas light display around and it is totally free! Stop by and enjoy face painting and entertainment in the tent, a train ride, hay ride, or go for a skate on the pond! The pathways are lit up and plenty of parking at both ends make it a fabulous time! (Barbs note: one year they even were giving out camel rides for the kids. YES, camel rides. – It had to be freezing the poor camel!)
Lions’ Festival of Lights – 100% Green. Just one glimpse of the lights from 14 Street NW is just a sampling of how much the festival brings to the community. 100,000 light bulbs and thousands of volunteer manhours all come together to put up the biggest no-entry fee light show in Calgary. And did you know… the 100,000 bulbs on 4,000 strings using 50 kW per hour, only cost $25.00 a day! That is amazing! This is a not to miss show- that you dont have to just do the ‘drive by’. Stop and take a walk through the village and more! This light show sees approximately 53,000 visitors a day!
These are only a few! If you know of a great light display in the city, please respond to this post and share it!