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Garden d'Lights

Bellevue, WA · Holiday

When

November 28 – December 31, 2026

Where

Bellevue Botanical Garden · Bellevue · WA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A half million lights, handmade by volunteers into garden themed sculptures, illuminate Bellevue Botanical Garden from Thanksgiving weekend through New Year's Eve. The display has run for more than 30 years and is a beloved Eastside winter tradition.

The history within reach

• Garden d'Lightssame spot

  A half million lights, handmade by volunteers into garden themed sculptures, illuminate Bellevue Botanical Garden from Thanksgiving weekend through New Year's Eve.

• The Wilburton Trestle carried Boeing fuselages 102 feet above a Bellevue valley0.6 mi

  At 975 feet long and 102 feet high this is the longest wooden railway trestle in the Pacific Northwest.

• Bellevue women went door to door to pay for the Eastside's first hospital1.0 mi

  Until 1960 anyone on the Eastside who needed a hospital had to cross the lake to get to one.

• Amazon incorporated1.0 mi

  Jeff Bezos drove west and started in a rented Bellevue house, choosing the state for its small population and its software labour.

• The Puget Power Building, Bellevue's first high rise, torn down for a taller one1.2 mi

  Puget Sound Power and Light put up a four storey headquarters here in 1956, the tallest building in Bellevue and on the whole Eastside at the time.