Lights in Bellevue
December 11 - 31, 2023 (4:30 to 9:30 p.m.)
Bellevue (11 miles E)
Enjoy more than a half million colorful lights with displays at $8 Garden d’Lights in Bellevue Botanical Garden, 12001 Main St. in Bellevue. Free for age 10 and younger. You must buy timed tickets online. Closed Dec. 25. Music schedule.
Lights in Everett
December 11 - 31, 2023 (4 to 8 p.m.)
Everett (32 miles N)
Wintertide Lights is a “winter wonderland” every December evening in Evergreen Arboretum and Gardens, next to Legion Memorial Park, 145 Alverson Blvd. in Everett. FREE
Lights at Tacoma zoo
December 11, 2023 - Jan. 1, 2024 (4:30 to 10 p.m.)
Tacoma (40 miles SW)
Bundle up to admire 800,000 holiday lights and displays at Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo, 5400 N Pearl St. in Tacoma. The kids area has goats. Closed Dec. 24 & 25. Grounds map.
Drive-through lights (south)
December 11, 2023 - Jan. 1, 2024 (5:30 to 9 p.m.)
Spanaway (43 miles S)
Buy a ticket online, then drive two miles past “300 elaborate displays” of holiday lights while you hear holiday music on radio station 1700 AM at Fantasy Lights in Spanaway Park, 14905 Bresemann Blvd. S in Spanaway. Open every night. At peak times, the line can take three hours.
Lights at Seattle zoo
December 11, 2023 - Jan. 14, 2024 (4 to 9 p.m.)
Phinney Ridge (4.1 miles N)
WildLanterns features “large-scale animal and nature scape lanterns representing wild places from around the globe” including bugs, lions, pandas, parrots, and dragons, with snacks for sale and a performance in the entrance building at Woodland Park Zoo, 5500 Phinney Ave. N in Seattle. (Closed most Mondays and Dec. 24 & 25.) Grounds map.