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Fantasy in Lights at Callaway Gardens
Pine Mountain, GA · Holiday
- When
- November 15, 2026 – January 3, 2027
- Where
- Callaway Gardens · Pine Mountain · GA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Callaway Gardens strings millions of lights across its grounds each winter for this drive through and walking holiday display, ranked among the top Christmas light shows in the country by Forbes. The show runs nightly from mid-November through the first week of January. Visitors can tour by car, tram, or on foot through themed light scenes.
The history within reach
Callaway Gardens strings millions of lights across its grounds each winter for this drive through and walking holiday display, ranked among the top Christmas light shows in the country by Forbes.
Franklin Roosevelt came for the eighty-eight-degree water three years after polio took his legs, found he could stand in it, and bought the place.
- Ma Rainey's house26 mi
Gertrude Pridgett started singing in tent shows as a teenager, married into them, and worked out on the road what a blues record would sound like years before anybody made one.
John Pemberton took a sabre wound at the fighting outside Columbus in the last week of the war and came out of it, like a great many veterans, dependent on morphine.
- Joe Louis32 mi
Born in a sharecropper's shack in the Alabama hills, the grandson of enslaved people, and moved to Detroit in the Great Migration, where he hid a violin case with boxing gloves in it from his mother.