🎡 Light shows, drive-throughs & attractions
Wild Lights at the Fort Wayne Zoo
A walk-through after-dark holiday experience the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo debuted in 2025, with nearly one million lights strung across the zoo grounds, an elf-hosted nightly tree-lighting and dance party, s'mores, cookie decorating, the E
Blue Jacket's Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park
Fort Wayne's marquee drive-through light show, a roughly 3-mile route through Franke Park with more than 700 individual displays and several million LED lights, including a half-mile 'Pines of Partners' stretch synchronized to music you tun
Night Light Display at the Botanical Conservatory
The downtown Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory fills its glass showhouses with a holiday Night Light Display - twinkling lights, vibrant poinsettias, festive greenery and illuminated photo ops - reflected in the indoor gardens. An
Parkview Field Holiday Lights
The downtown home of the Fort Wayne TinCaps turns its ballpark into a walk-through holiday wonderland - roughly 1.5 million lights for the 2025 season (up 50% over its debut) wrapped around the concourse and field, with a synchronized light
HolidayFest featuring the Night of Lights
Downtown Fort Wayne's signature holiday kickoff, presented by Lutheran Health Network and Downtown Fort Wayne: on Night of Lights, thousands gather as dozens of downtown displays are lit in sequence across a couple of hours - the Community
Festival of Gingerbread at The History Center
A nearly 40-year Fort Wayne tradition inside The History Center's landmark 1926 Old City Hall: dozens of gingerbread creations - from pre-K kids to culinary professionals - displayed and judged amid holiday decor, with cookie decorating, st
Festival of Trees at the Embassy Theatre
The historic 1928 Embassy Theatre fills its lobby, ballroom and auditorium with dozens of elaborately decorated and lighted holiday trees for its Festival of Trees, one of Fort Wayne's oldest holiday traditions (41st season in 2025). Live m
Christmas on Broadway Tree Lighting
A 21-year community tradition in Fort Wayne's historic Broadway commercial corridor: a 40-foot Colorado blue spruce strung with more than 40,000 lights is lit at a free evening kickoff with a parade led by the Concordia Lutheran marching ba
🏠 Decorated home displays
Lighting Up Leo
Over 70,000 LED lights with a 12-foot pixel tree and a 17-foot screen, all synchronized to music tuned in at 94.5 FM
Kumfer Family Light Show
More than 18,000 lights with about 20 synchronized trees dancing to music
Smith Family Christmas Lights
TJ and Joan Smith's display of 25,000+ lights and 125+ vintage blow molds, with a show synchronized to music on 97.7 FM
Golden Eagle Nest Light Show
An animated home display of characters and nativity scenes synchronized to music on 88.9 FM, collecting for St. Jude
Colones Family Light Show
More than 12,500 programmable LED lights sequenced to music on 88.9 FM
Brown Family Christmas Display
Animated silhouettes and a music-synchronized show on 87.9 FM, in its 33rd year
Busco Lights
A mega-watt show synchronized to music on 88.5 FM, run by the Pearson family and collecting for the DeKalb Humane Society
Heidinger Family Pixel Show
7,000+ lights and a 12-foot pixel tree in a music-synchronized show on 94.5 FM (viewable via a RemoteFalcon show page)
Swift Family Pixel Light Show
A pixel light show synchronized to music on 107.1 FM
Schulert Family Singing Lights
A mega tree and 'singing lights' show synchronized to music
Baird Family Light Show
A home display with lights synchronized to music
Todd Family Christmas Show
About 10,000 lights synchronized to Christmas songs
Hosier Family Lights
Thousands of lights in the Walden neighborhood, collecting for Humane Fort Wayne
Grossnickle Family Block Display
100,000+ lights spanning an entire block
Bracht 'A Christmas Story' Display
An 'A Christmas Story' movie tribute, complete with the leg lamp in the window
Anderson Family Reindeer Display
40+ lighted displays including reindeer
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