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December 2025
Delight Nights
Interactive play and fun with full access to 25 exhibits. Through 12/31.
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Wild Lights
Wild Lights, the Akron Zoo’s popular holiday lighting event, runs Nov. 28 through Dec. 30. The zoo is decorated in more than one million lights, with a refreshed look for this year. Guests can visit with Santa through Dec. 30, and the Grinch will be onsite every evening. The Akron Zoo will also offer Wild Lights Safari Tours, exclusive golf cart tours available on all Wild Lights dates. Tours are at 5, 5:15, 6 or 6:15 p.m. and include a 45-minute…
Find out more »Holiday Ice & Lights Festival
Bundle up and head outside to sit on Santa’s ice throne. Also, check out some of northeast Ohio’s best ice carvers in action. There will be plenty of photo opportunities. Each evening, enjoy a wagon ride through the Farmpark’s classic light displays. Visit the Well Bred Shed and the arena where Farmpark staff and volunteers have created a holiday-themed equine show. Santa and his elves will set up his tremendous North Pole Train Display in the Exhibit Hall. Visit to…
Find out more »Candy Land: It’s Wild in Ohio
A FREE indoor family tradition where the Candy Land game comes to life. Enjoy a colorful adventure and discover what’s wild in Ohio. Also, enjoy a themed craft, scavenger hunts, hands-on exhibits and more. Shop for nature-themed gifts and enjoy hot chocolate in Snowshoe Lodge. Enjoy an outdoor campfire with s’mores from 12-3 p.m., animal chats at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and meet-the-keeper chats in the Wildlife Yard at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Snowshoe…
Find out more »Annie
A musical based on “Little Orphan Annie” by Thomas Meehan, Directed by Dennis O’Connell.
Find out more »The North Pole Adventure
26-mile, 90-minute excursion to the enchanting North Pole.
Find out more »Magic of Lights
Family-friendly drive-through of holiday lights.
Find out more »Black Nativity
Joyous retelling of the traditional new testament account of the nativity story, using gospel music, dramatic dance and more.
Find out more »Deck the Hall
Come see the estate illuminated with over one million lights on select evenings.
Find out more »Nickelodeon The Spongebob Musical
SpongeBob and his friends come together to save the fate of the undersea world.
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