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Tacoma, WA · Holiday

When

November 27, 2026 – January 3, 2027

Where

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium · Tacoma · WA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Point Defiance Zoo strings 1.5 million lights through its grounds each winter for one of Tacoma's longest running holiday traditions. The display runs nightly from the day after Thanksgiving into the first week of January.

The history within reach

• Zoolightssame spot

  Point Defiance Zoo strings 1.5 million lights through its grounds each winter for one of Tacoma's longest running holiday traditions.

• Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, the only combined pair in the Northwest0.3 mi

  The zoo opened in 1905 on the bluff inside Point Defiance Park.

• Ruston, the company town under the ASARCO smokestack0.5 mi

  Ruston incorporated around the copper smelter on the point and lived off it for most of a century.

• Camp 6, the logging museum that ran a railroad inside a city park0.6 mi

  Logging engineers built a working replica of a steam era timber camp on fourteen forested acres inside Point Defiance Park in 1964, complete with bunk cars, a spar tree and a railroad running between the sites.

• Point Defiance Park and the four hundred acres of old growth left inside a city0.8 mi

  The Wilkes expedition named the headland for the judgment that guns placed here could defy any fleet trying to enter the Narrows.