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Descanso Gardens Enchanted Forest of Light

La Canada Flintridge, CA · Holiday

When

November 22, 2026 – January 9, 2027

Where

Descanso Gardens · La Canada Flintridge · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A large-scale illuminated walk through Descanso Gardens' oak woodland and Japanese garden, with light installations spread across the property each winter. The event marks its 10th season in 2026. Tickets are timed and sold in advance for evening entry.

The history within reach

• Descanso Gardens Enchanted Forest of Lightsame spot

  A large-scale illuminated walk through Descanso Gardens' oak woodland and Japanese garden, with light installations spread across the property each winter.

• The Mars rover era begins at JPL1.8 mi

  JPL has run NASA's robotic planetary program from Pasadena since 1958, from Sojourner in 1997 through the Curiosity and Perseverance landings..

• JPL and the Suicide Squad1.9 mi

  A handful of Caltech students blew things up in the Arroyo Seco testing rocket motors, led in part by Jack Parsons, a self-taught chemist and practising occultist who was one of the more useful minds in early American rocketry.

• Rockhaven Sanitarium, run by women for women when asylums did the opposite2.2 mi

  Agnes Richards, a psychiatric nurse who had served in the First World War, opened a sanitarium in the Crescenta Valley in 1923 that admitted only women and was staffed by women.

• The Oak of Peace at the Catalina Verdugo Adobe2.9 mi

  Teodoro Verdugo built this adobe on his grandfather's rancho, most likely in the late 1820s or 1830s.