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Detroit Zoo Wild Lights

Royal Oak, MI · Holiday

When

November 21, 2026 – January 3, 2027

Where

Detroit Zoo · Royal Oak · MI

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Wild Lights is the Detroit Zoo's winter lantern and light display, running select nights from late November through early January. Illuminated animal sculptures and millions of LED lights cover the zoo's Royal Oak grounds. It has grown into one of the Detroit area's largest seasonal light shows.

The history within reach

• The Detroit Zoo opens without bars on the cages0.1 mi

  When it opened in 1928 this was the first zoo in the United States built around bar-less habitats, using moats and ditches to hold animals instead of iron.

• Rackham Golf Course, a Donald Ross layout the public can play0.3 mi

  Horace and Mary Rackham paid for a Donald Ross course next to the zoo and handed it to the City of Detroit, which opened it to the public in 1925.

• The B and C Grocery Building0.9 mi

  Built in 1939 on South Main Street for a grocery chain founded in Detroit in the early 1920s that had already opened two stores in Royal Oak by 1930.

• Royal Oak Holidays1.1 mi

  Royal Oak Holidays is a run of free weekend events in downtown Royal Oak's Centennial Commons, from a late-November park lighting through late December.

• Woodward Dream Cruise1.1 mi

  A single day cruise of classic and muscle cars along a 16 mile stretch of Woodward Avenue through nine Oakland County communities.