{"id":26712,"date":"2025-12-25T05:54:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26712"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T05:54:50","slug":"holiday-light-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/holiday-light-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Extend the Holidays, See a Light Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/litdisp.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of California&#8217;s spectacular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/christmas-lights.html\">holiday lights attractions<\/a> run from November through December when they go dark on or around December 31. However, a few of them continue into the new year. It&#8217;s a great way to linger and keep the holiday spirit alive a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>Zoo Lighted Lantern Displays<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bakersfield&#8217;s CALM Zoo Holiday Lightasmic thru Jan.3, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Santa Barbara Zoo&#8217;s ZooLights thru Jan.11, 2026<\/li>\n<li>LA Zoo&#8217;s Animals Aglow thru Jan.11, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Big Bear Alpine Zoo Wild Lights thru Jan.4, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Buellton&#8217;s Santa Ynez Valley Holiday Lights<\/li>\n<li>Folsom City Zoo Sancutary&#8217;s Wild Nights, Holiday Lights<\/li>\n<li>Fresno Chaffee Zoo IllumiNature thru Jan.31, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Oakland Glowfari Wildly Illuminating Light Festival thru Jan.25, 2026<\/li>\n<li>San Diego Zoo Jungle Bells thru Jan.4, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Eureka&#8217;s Sequoia Park Zoo Lights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Botanic Garden Lights<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Palos Verdes Peninsula&#8217;s South Coast Botanic Garden Astra Lumina<\/li>\n<li>Encinitas Lightscapethru Jan.4, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Woodside&#8217;s Fililo Holiday Lights thru Jan.11, 2026<\/li>\n<li>Redding&#8217;s McConnell Arboretum Garden of Lights thru Jan.4, 2026<\/li>\n<li>San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Nature Nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check out Imaginarium with limited time engagements throughout California, plus the many drive-through light attractions and several missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of California&#8217;s spectacular holiday lights attractions run from November through December when they go dark on or around December 31. However, a few of them continue into the new year. It&#8217;s a great way to linger and keep the holiday spirit alive a little longer. Zoo Lighted Lantern Displays Bakersfield&#8217;s CALM Zoo Holiday Lightasmic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26713,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions\/26713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}