Visitors enter via the grounds of the Shipshewana Flea Market on Indiana 5 (345 S Van Buren St.) and exit onto County Road 200 North. It winds through the grounds of the Shipshewana RV Park. Shipshewana Trading Place and Blue Gate Hospitality partnered with Winterland, Inc. Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The 1.5-mile drive-through “Lights of Joy” display in Shipshewana features more than 2 million LED lights, open every Tuesday through Sunday from Nov. Limo/party bus tickets cost $100-$40 per vehicle. Tickets cost $40-$20 per vehicle, depending upon when they’re purchased, if purchased online or at the gate, and whether you’re visiting on a weekday or weekend. This light display is a first for LaPorte County, brought in by a private company to several locations around the U.S. This display features nearly 1 million twinkling lights on a 1.5-mile route, including the themed areas “12 Days of Christmas,” “Tropical Holidays,” “Santa’s Mountain” and “The Enchanting Tunnel of Lights.” There’s also a “Jolly Holiday Village” where you can park for a visit with Santa and a firepit s’mores package. Indiana 2 in LaPorte, is now open from 5 to 10 p.m.
The drive-through “Magic of Lights” at the LaPorte County Fairgrounds and Event Center, 2581 W. To order or volunteer or find other details, visit LaPorte 'Magic'
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Tickets cost $15 for general admission, $10 for ages 3-12 and free for ages 2 and younger. These COVID protocols are subject to changes based on state and county guidelines. Unvaccinated visitors must wear masks when inside the buildings (you can avoid going inside, too).
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Several volunteers, plus staff, are making the event’s comeback possible, but there’s room for more volunteers each volunteer gets a free pass to tour on a night when they’re not working. Line says the revenue will help Fernwood to hire specialists and to fuel the budget for its garden master plan, coming off of the financial setbacks of the pandemic. The gift shop at the visitors center will be selling holiday gifts and packaged food.įernwood strongly recommends booking tickets in advance to ensure enough parking and safe traffic off of Range Line Road tickets will be sold at the event only if available.
The Sims building is the hub for beverages, snacks, fire pits and restrooms. Those who can’t navigate the few steps to reach the path from there can use the elevator in the building. Now, visitors circle along about half of a mile of garden paths that are paved or crushed gravel. “We always wanted to bring it back,” she says, noting that Fernwood then directed its attention to a capital campaign and building its Sims Education Center. Line says attendance was waning and the event needed to be rethought. They’ve reimagined Fernwood's former “Lights Before Christmas,” which had been a big draw - and fundraiser - for 15 years until the nonprofit gardens pulled the plug. Line says two professionals who’ve worked on other garden light displays elsewhere, one a landscape architect and one a former garden director, helped to design the display. It brings tunnels of lights and an array of displays, including seven sound areas, that you can spend 45 minutes to an hour absorbing. “Lights at Fernwood” runs from 5 to 9 p.m. “It makes you stop in your tracks,” Executive Director Carol Line says.Īlmost 40 stars from three to six feet wide hang in one section of tall trees, placed there with the help of a lift and a local tree company, Line says. Meanwhile, you’ll be walking a 50-foot stretch of paved path where you’ll see where images of birds, cast by light projectors. Instead, you’ll hear the sound of birds from speakers that a recent grant helped to install. Now remember ,it’ll be after sunset in these gardens and mature woods - so birds will have gone to bed. In the new holiday lights at Fernwood Botanical Garden in Niles - back after they went on hiatus in 2008 - a machine pumps the smell of candy canes as you walk past river birch trees whose trunks are wrapped to look like the swirling mints.Īnd you’ll hear birds.