November 18, 2024
Tickets Now Available for The Wild Center’s Wild Lights
2024-25 season features new immersive projection experience
Tupper Lake, N.Y. – The Wild Center is excited to announce the return of Wild Lights, presented by Merrill L. Thomas, Inc., for its fifth season, with tickets on sale now. The evening experience transforms The Wild Center’s 115-acre campus into a winter wonderland, with thousands of bulbs and a variety of activities and displays. Wild Lights will run on Friday and Saturday evenings from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. beginning Fri., Nov. 29.
This family-friendly winter event offers a chance to experience The Wild Center in a new light, literally! Visitors can look forward to:
- New Immersive Projection Experience: visitors can explore Wild Lights like never before with indoor and outdoor immersive projection art installations by Echo, an Adirondack artist and co-founder of The Station in Onchiota.
- Snack at the Mobile Sugar Shack: the shack will be converted into a food truck, serving hot and cold treats at The Wild Center’s patio space.
- Wild Lights Light Lager: Raquette River Brewing’s festive creation will be returning and can be purchased at The Wild Center, as well as in-store and on tap at Raquette River Brewing Co. and other local stores.
- Forest Music: the looped trail with over 130 trees wrapped in colorful lights synchronized to a 10-track musical compilation from Whatever Penny entitled “Songs for an Old Pine Forest.”
- Lit Photo Ops: Oversized neon bird wings that provide a perfect photo op and other new illuminated sculptures guide visitors through the different paths and trails.
The Wild Supply Co. will be available for shopping, and indoor experiences will be open, including Planet Adirondack and the Living River Trail, where guests can watch North American River Otters play.
Dates for the 2024-2025 season are as follows:
- Fridays and Saturdays from Nov. 29 to Feb. 22
- Open nightly during Holiday Week – Dec. 26 to 31
- Open nightly during Winter Week – Feb. 14 to 22
Admission to Wild Lights is to be purchased separately from day-time admission to The Wild Center. From Nov. 29 to Feb. 22, member pricing is $7 for adults and $2 for children ages 5-17, and non-member pricing is $12 for adults, and $7 for youth. Admission is free for children 4 and under. Tickets and information are available at wildcenter.org/wildlights.
Wild Lights is presented by Merrill L. Thomas, Inc. and is made possible by Adirondack Frontier, Adirondack Health, Adirondack Land Trust, Schoolhouse Renovations, Adirondack Regional Federal Credit Union, Duff’s Dumpsters, Mike Foote Insurance, Long Run Wealth Advisors, Cape Air and Trailhead.
Wild Lights is supported by a grant awarded to The Wild Center by New York State's Empire State Development and the I LOVE NY Division of Tourism.
Wild Lights is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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