Event

ZooLights at the Oakland Zoo

Family, friends, and ZooLights are a great way to turn on your holiday spirit! Holiday music will fill the air as guests mingle among hundreds of thousands of energy-efficient LED lights.

ZooLights is open to the public December 4, 2009 January 3, 2010

Exception: ZooLights will be closed December 24 & 25, so staff members may spend the holidays with family members.

ZooLights Hours:

Friday - Sunday: 5:30pm 9:30pm

Monday Thursday: 5:30pm 9:00pm

*Please note that Oakland Zoo animal residents will be in their nighthouses.

So, grab a cup of hot cocoa and feast your eyes on more than 120 lighted animal structures. Dont miss the ZooLights meadow show with music provided by Movin 99.7 and orchestrated by Impact Lighting.

Embark on a more relaxed ZooLights experience and board the Snowball Express, a miniature C.P. Huntington steam engine train. The Zoos famous train ride is popular among the young and the young at heart! Let your holiday spirit take you away as you see breathtaking views of the Bay Area while winding around the Oakland Zoo after dark.

End the evening in the Oakland Zoos Rides Area where children will especially enjoy a fantasyland of giant toy soldiers, with over-sized candy canes, lollipops, and gingerbread cookies. The holiday season may even bring out the kid in youtake a twirl on the carousel! Oakland Zoos ZooLights is the largest LED light festival in Northern California!