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/ October 18, 2026
Potawatomi Zoo sits inside Potawatomi Park on the east side of South Bend, Indiana, tucked between the St. Joseph River and the Grand Trunk railroad line. Founded in 1921 after Studebaker Corporation president Albert Russell Erskine donated a single deer to the city park board…
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/ October 18, 2026
Flashback is a steel shuttle roller coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts, built on the classic Vekoma Boomerang design. It opened at the park on May 5, 2000, giving riders a compact but intense out-and-back experience that sends a single train through…
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/ October 18, 2026
Catwoman’s Whip is a steel family coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts, built by German manufacturer Zierer as part of its Tivoli Large product line. The ride opened on May 5, 2000, as Poison Ivy’s Tangled Train when the park was rebranded…
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/ October 18, 2026
Safari Lights is the Oklahoma City Zoo’s annual holiday lantern and light event, held on the zoo grounds in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. For 2026 it runs nightly from Saturday, November 14, 2026 through Sunday, January 3, 2027, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. with last check-in…
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/ October 18, 2026
Here are today’s 8 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters, Stadiums & Arenas and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Six Flags Over Georgia Ride…
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/ October 17, 2026
The Candlelight Processional is a holiday stage show performed at Epcot’s America Gardens Theatre every November and December as part of the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays. The performance retells the nativity story through scripture narration paired with a live orchestra and a massed…
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/ October 17, 2026
Aggie Memorial Stadium sits on the campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where it has served as the home field of the New Mexico State Aggies football program since it opened in September 1978. The venue replaced an earlier, much…
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/ October 17, 2026
Holidays at the Garden transforms the Daniel Stowe Conservancy (the garden formally dropped “Botanical Garden” from its name in April 2025) in Belmont, North Carolina, into a nightly winter walk of over one million lights and dancing fountains across its gardens and lake. For 2026…
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/ October 17, 2026
Dallas Zoo Lights Presented by Reliant turns the Dallas Zoo in Marsalis Park into a walk-through holiday display each winter, with more than two million lights, illuminated lantern displays and the zoo’s Destination: Dinosaurs trail glowing after dark. For 2026 the event runs select nights…
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/ October 17, 2026
Wild Lights at the Fort Wayne Zoo is a nighttime walk-through holiday lights event at the Fort Wayne Zoo, known as the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo until a January 2025 rename, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The 2026 season is confirmed for November 13, 2026 through…
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/ October 17, 2026
Zoo Lights, Powered by CPS Energy, turns the San Antonio Zoo into a nighttime walk-through of illuminated tunnels, lantern-style animal displays and a synchronized light show reflected over Big Lake each winter. The zoo has confirmed that the 2026 season will run from November 14…
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/ October 17, 2026
ZooLights is the holiday light event at Utah’s Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City, where the zoo stays open after dark on select nights each winter so guests can walk through lit-up pathways, animal silhouettes, and festive decorations. It’s a low-key, cold-weather tradition built around…
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/ October 17, 2026
LumiNature is the Philadelphia Zoo’s holiday light show, presented by PNC, turning the 42-acre zoo into a glowing nighttime walk with wildlife-themed light displays, a light tunnel, and a 110-foot Pherris Wheel. The Philadelphia Zoo has confirmed LumiNature 2026 runs most nights from November 19…
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/ October 17, 2026
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has confirmed its 2026 Wild Winter Lights season, and for the eighth consecutive year the zoo is turning its grounds into a lit walking trail strung with more than 1.5 million lights. The walk-through season runs November 18 through December 30 on…
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/ October 17, 2026
Lights Before Christmas is the Toledo Zoo’s long-running holiday lights event, held each winter in Toledo, Ohio, and widely considered one of the best zoo light displays in the Midwest. As of this writing, the Toledo Zoo has not yet released 2026 dates, hours, ticket…
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/ October 17, 2026
Theme park news today is dominated by Cedar Point, where officials shut down Millennium Force on Friday after a bracket came loose from a ride vehicle and landed in an area accessible to guests — at least the third detached-part incident at the Sandusky, Ohio…
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/ October 17, 2026
Wild Lights is the Akron Zoo’s annual holiday light display in Akron, Ohio, and the 2026 run marks its 10th anniversary season. It runs select nights from November 20 through December 27, 2026, with the zoo open from 5 to 9 p.m. (last entry 8:30…
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/ October 17, 2026
Zoo lights and botanical garden light shows run from mid November into early January, and this page lists every one ThrillZing has a full guide for, sorted by state. Each row links to the event guide with the verified 2026 dates, ticket prices, what is…
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/ October 17, 2026
Glow Wild is Nashville Zoo’s new holiday light show, running nightly from November 13, 2026 through January 3, 2027, from 5pm to 9pm at the zoo’s Grassmere campus in Nashville, Tennessee. It replaces Zoolumination, the zoo’s previous Chinese lantern festival, which was canceled for 2026…
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/ October 17, 2026
Wild Lights is the Milwaukee County Zoo’s annual holiday lights event, turning the zoo’s forests and pathways into a glowing, mile-long walking route of animal-themed light displays. For 2026 the event runs from November 20 through December 31 (with select closed dates), from 5:30 p.m.
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