It’s Almost Time For Zoo Lights To Return To The Maryland Zoo

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) — The holidays are close astir the corner, which means it’s astir clip for the Maryland Zoo to beryllium lit up with dozens of animal-themed displays.

Zoo Lights, a seven-week vacation lawsuit featuring implicit 80 idiosyncratic displays made up of 150,000 LED lights, is scheduled to marque its instrumentality to the zoo starting connected Friday, Nov. 19.

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“Last twelvemonth we were overwhelmed by the enactment from the nationalist erstwhile we brought this festive lawsuit backmost to the Zoo aft a precise agelong hiatus,” Maryland Zoo President & CEO Kirby Fowler said. “This twelvemonth we are precise excited for the instrumentality of Zoo Lights arsenic a vacation tradition, offering abstracted evenings to locomotion oregon thrust done the vacation airy displays present connected grounds.”

The yearly spectacle runs 5 nights a week — Wednesdays done Sundays — aft the zoo’s mean hours of operations.

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It’s recommended that those wishing to instrumentality successful the spectacle connected ft should sojourn the zoo connected Friday Saturday oregon Sunday evenings. Their journeys volition statesman astatine the Main Gate and instrumentality them down a lit way on Buffalo Yard Road. Guests visiting connected Wednesday and Thursday evenings tin bask each the dazzling lights without ever having to acceptable ft extracurricular their vehicles.

Tickets tally $28 a idiosyncratic for a stroll done Zoo Lights, portion drive-thru admittance is $33 per vehicle.

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Visit the zoo’s website for further ticketing accusation oregon to larn much astir the yearly event.

CBS Baltimore Staff