Holidays & Nights: 💡Light it up at these big drive-thru and walk-thru events 🚗

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It’s clip to get lit.

This week we’re focusing connected each of the beauteous lights astir Southern California successful the big walk-thru and drive-thru events that person opened astir the region.

We’ve got the details astir circumstantial attractions below, but if you privation a one-stop store that includes the biggest ongoing vacation happenings, this database is the 1 you privation to bookmark.

Holiday cheer happening now

Note: We are inactive successful a pandemic. We volition purpose to support you updated arsenic things change, but delight cheque with lawsuit organizers to corroborate details and COVID-19 guidelines.

Princess Crystal welcomes guests driving done the Winter Wonderland astatine the Night of Lights OC drive-thru acquisition astatine the OC Fair & Event Center successful Costa Mesa connected Tuesday, November 23, 2021. The mile-long drive-thru attraction, produced by Winter Fest OC, has implicit a cardinal lights and includes costumed unrecorded actors, snowflake dancers and lands which see the North Pole Village, Santa’s House, a Forest of Light and Winter Wonderland to sanction a few. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Winterland welcome

The Night of Lights astatine the OC Fair & Event Center was 1 of the astir fashionable drive-thru vacation events past twelvemonth during the restrictive COVID-19 shutdowns. Guests thrust done a winter wonderland of costumed unrecorded actors, snowflake dancers, cheerful elves, animated airy sheet displays successful the signifier of Christmas trees, elves, presents and more. This year’s lawsuit runs until Jan. 2.

People locomotion done the Winter Cathedral during Lightscape, A Magical, Illuminated Journey of Wonder and Light astatine the Los Angeles County Arboretum successful Arcadia connected Thursday, November 11, 2021. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Landscape of lights

The holidays aren’t the lone happening getting the spotlight this season. The immersive Lightscape attraction astatine the L.A. Arboretum until Jan. 16 includes displays of fire, euphony and peculiar effects. Oh and lights… tons of lights!

An elf performs an acrobatic stunt during the Elf connected the Shelf’s Magical Journey, a walk-thru acquisition astatine the Fairplex successful Pomona connected Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Elf disconnected the shelf 

The Elf connected Shelf is backmost astatine Fairplex successful Pomona until Sunday, Jan. 2. The lawsuit is simply a small much relaxed than past year’s, which was strictly a drive-thru. This year, guests volition beryllium capable to locomotion done (while wearing masks) and acquisition Christmas lights and displays, vacation euphony and the saccharine smells of sweetener cookies, roasted cinnamon pecans and kettle maize filling the air.

A chid plays with 1 of the swirling installations by HYBYCOZO connected the main tract astatine the Enchanted Forest of Light attraction astatine Descanso Gardens successful La Canada Flintridge, CA Monday, November 22, 2021. The Enchanted Lights show volition beryllium unfastened to the nationalist done January 9th. More accusation tin beryllium recovered astatine descansogardens.org (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Simply enchanting

Descanso Gardens successful La Cañada Flintridge has brought backmost its Enchanted Forest of Light show aft going acheronian successful 2020. Check retired the stunning images from lensman David Crane, who besides has immoderate tips connected what to cognize earlier you go. The installation runs though Jan. 9.

Cars thrust into a artifact store during Reindeer Road, a drive-through animated airy amusement featuring millions of LED lights and hundreds of animated displays enactment connected by World of Illumination successful the parking batch of Santa Anita Park successful Arcadia connected Saturday, November 27, 2021. (Photo by Libby Cline-Birmingham, Contributing Photographer)

The roadworthy to Santa

The caller Reindeer Road attraction has landed astatine Santa Anita Park and this drive-thru lawsuit takes you connected a roadworthy to Santa’s store done ice, water, the wood and more. Watch retired for the abominable snowmen astatine this event, which runs done Jan. 2.

Visitors instrumentality successful the Festival of Lights astatine the Mission Inn Hotel & Spa successful Riverside connected Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. This year’s festival had nary fireworks oregon performance owed to the pandemic. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Twinkle twinkle small inn

The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa successful Riverside didn’t person the large switch-on ceremonial for the Festival of Lights this year, but you tin inactive locomotion astir and see the 5 cardinal lights each implicit the edifice and the dozens of possibly disturbing animatronic figures on the way.

GLOW (Garden Lights Ocean Waters) opens astatine South Coast Botanic Garden connected November 20 for its sophomore year. The interactive airy exhibits astatine the Garden that see food, drinks, euphony runs done Jan. 17, 2022. (Photo by Chuck Bennett, Contributing Photographer)

Ready to ‘Glow’

South Coast Botanic Garden’s “Glow” (garden lights, ocean waters) installation has returned for a 2nd twelvemonth on the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Reporter Richard Guzman takes you done the caller bayou and everything other you tin expect to see.

A conveyance enters the Magic of Lights Drive-Thru Experience astatine Angel Stadium connected Friday, November 19, 2021. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)

Parking batch magic

Magic of Lights is simply a drive-thru event in the parking batch of Angel Stadium successful Anaheim. This installation has a motion to the Angels, but besides lights displays of Fisher-Price toys, a Big Foot monster truck and Santa Claus riding a dinosaur. It runs done Dec. 26.

Santa’s Speedway Christmas Lights Drive-Thru runs astatine the Irwindale Speedway successful Irwindale done Jan. 2. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)

Rev up the sleigh

The  Santa’s Speedway Christmas Lights Drive-Thru returned to the Irwindale Speedway Nov. 26 and volition proceed done Jan. 2. You get to drive connected a existent racetrack arsenic your circuit Santa’s Village astatine this installation.

10 tips for hanging your vacation lights. (Getty Images)

Bulbs abound

If each of these lights displays are getting you pumped up to hang your ain lights and decorations, you’ll privation to work this communicative with tips from a lighting adept first.

Even much cheer

Students capable up stockings with snacks and different goodies arsenic portion of the yearly YMCA of Orange County’s yearly “Stockings for the Troops” stuffing enactment astatine Canyon Vista Elementary YMCA successful Aliso Viejo connected Monday, November 22, 2021. More than 800 stockings volition beryllium nonstop to subject idiosyncratic stationed overseas. Each stocking volition see a handwritten enactment from the students. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Members of the YMCA of Orange County’s after-school programme successful Aliso Viejo built attraction packages for American subject unit stationed overseas arsenic portion of “Stockings for the Troops.”