Shuttle buses will run between satellite parking lots. Parking lots available for Illuminations will be listed on the event’s website each night. The only entrance for Illuminations is Botanica’s south gate near the Old Cowtown Museum parking lot.
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Tickets are $13, $9 for children ages 12 and under and members, free for children 2 and younger. To avoid crowds, try a weekday night instead. The online, timed ticket sales help prevent long lines and ease parking lot congestion, Botanica officials said. Present your receipt on your mobile phone at the gate. You’ll need to select a date and one of the four time slots available for your arrival - 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 or 8:30 p.m. Tickets for Illuminations must be pre-purchased through Botanica’s website, /illuminations. Here are five things to know about this year’s Illuminations: One updated display this year is the musical light show on the main meadow. It continues to add features or updates, oftentimes taking up to two years to plan and incorporate those changes. After a few years, Botanica officials decided to convert to an electrical display. Now a light show of some 2 million lights, Illuminations first started in 1990 with holiday luminarias created with paper sacks and real candles placed along walkways. 24 and 25 for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, respectively. 18, and runs nightly from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. It’s one of the largest programmable branched trees in the Midwest, according to Botanica. To keep up bragging rights to having one of the region’s brightest and biggest light displays, another new attraction this year is a 62-foot holiday tree that has 80,000 individual light bulbs programmed with holiday graphics and set to music. 28, according to Jamee Ross, director of development. The stompers are across from the top of the grand lawn in the Koch Carousel Gardens and will be available starting Nov. In the second new installation, called light stompers, visitors can jump from stone to stone to watch them light up every time a stomper is hit. The orb display is located on the hill of the attraction’s huge stone patio called Parriott Terrace. With the new interactive orb display, visitors can use a computer program to create their own show and then watch the show in action in real time, according to Botanica officials. Usually the volunteers and staff at Botanica take care of programming all of the displays during the attraction’s big holiday lights event called Illuminations, but this year Botanica has introduced two new displays that visitors can program.
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