St. Louis Area Christmas Lights Displays

December 4, 2009 - December 31, 2009
Sundays through Fridays
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm

For more information or to make reservations for any of the special events, visit the Peoria website.

New to the Festival of Lights is the Spirit of Peoria paddlewheeler, offering a two-hour dinner or matinee cruise and musical entertainment.

East Peoria
Festival of Lights

The 25th annual Festival of Lights (FOLEPI)

This one-of-a-kind holiday spectacular hosts more than 2 million lights. The Parade of Lights is the official start to the Festival of Lights on December 6, 2008, at 5:45 p.m. This one-night event features a parade of 40 lighted floats that will cruise down the streets of East Peoria along a 3-mile route, beginning and concluding with spectacular fireworks displays. Other features include:

• FOLEPI's Winter Wonderland — a 2-mile drive-through park
• Narrated Nativity
• FOLEPI's Village and Marketplace
• RiverFront Promenade
• Festival of Lights Holiday Cruise on the Illinois River
• Matinee Shows
• Dinner Cruise
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Joseph Experience
• The Nutcracker by the Peoria Ballet

AND SO MUCH MORE!

Tilles Park

Litzsinger and McKnight Roads
in St. Louis County

Over 100 holiday-themed ground displays featuring 1,000,000 lights (that is equal to 14,236 strands, or 171 miles of lights) glisten throughout the forest of Tilles Park. Display themes include:

• a special holiday wreath
• a toy factory
• holiday bells
• bears
• Santa and his reindeer
• a bubbling stream
• the popular tunnel of lights

AND SO MUCH MORE!

December 6, 2008 - January 1, 2009
Sundays through Fridays
5:30 pm - 9:30 pm

For more information, visit the parks section of the St. Louis County, Missouri, website.

Open every night
November 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010
5:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday
5:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Friday through Saturday

Don't miss the season's newest scene . . .
Santa's Soaring Cardinals gret you at the gates
of the Kingdom as they fly over your car.

Santa's Magical Kingdom

Jellystone Park, Eureka, Missouri
Voted the best family holiday attraction in St. Louis

Santa's Magical Kingdom is like no other place on Earth! It's a glorious celebration of more than two million shimmering lights, nestled among a 35 acre Fantasyland filled with animated scenes and spectacular special effects, such as:

• Santa's Flying Reindeer
• 350' Waterfall of Lights
• the Giant Gingerbread House
• Candy Land
• Elf Land & Santa's Elves
• Forest of Magical Lights
• Santa's Acrobatic Elves
• Toy Land
• Winter Wonderland
• the Tunnel of Lights
• the Blessed Nativity
• Angel Flight Training School
• Santa's Workshop
• the Present Wrapping Factory
• Santa's Castle at the North Pole
• the Fountain of Lights
• the Candy Cane Factory

For more information or to make reservations, visit the website of Santa's Magical Kingdom

National Shrine of
Our Lady of the Snows

Way Of Lights Christmas Display
442 South De Mazenod Drive off IL Route 15, Belleville, Illinois

The winter holiday season is exceptional at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. Each year the Shrine grounds are illuminated with over one million lights. The "Journey to Bethlehem" is told through a mile-and-a-half route. As visitors drive into this fantasy of lights, they wind past electro-art sculptures and life-size figures depicting the Christmas story.

Festivities continue indoors. In the Visitors & Conference Center view an elegant display of decorated Christmas trees. Join in the fun activities in the Christmas Village, where puppet shows and storytelling are presented. Caroling and other seasonal programs are also featured, making a holiday visit to the Shrine a memorable event. Other attractions include:

• live Animal Display
• outdoor live-animal corral where you can pet
  and interact with a variety of live animals
• camel and donkey rides
• a life-size Nativity Scene constructed from
  Lego® blocks
• Way of Lights buffet
• Christmas Tree Display
• Shrine Restaurant, Gift Shop, and Bookstore
• Masses in the Church of Our Lady of the Snows
  • Wednesday, December 24, 5 & 8 p.m.
  • Thursday, December 25, 9:30 a.m.
• Admission Free (Donations appreciated)

Nightly 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
November 20, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Please Note:    The Visitors & Conference Center, Shrine Restaurant, and Shrine Gift Shop & Book Store will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve at 5:00 p.m., and Christmas Day. For more information or reservations, visit the website of

Our Lady of the Snows