Light Up Your Holidays! Get ready for the Birmingham Zoo’s larger-than-life illuminated experience! This extraordinary event will be held on select nights from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. during the months of November, December, and January. Watch the Zoo come alive with larger-than-life, jaw-dropping wild animal and sea life lantern creations brilliantly lighting up the night! Spend all winter long with your Birmingham Zoo and GLOW WILD into the new year!
*Additional cost
Event Details
DATES
*Select Nights – please check dates below:
- Friday – Sunday
- November 17 – January 15, 2024
- PLEASE NOTE: Glow Wild is a weather-dependent event with nights being subject to cancellation. Admission tickets are non-refundable but are date and time transferable. Email reply to the payment receipt you received after ticket purchase to request date and time transfer. Or email onlinesales@birminghamzoo.com.
TIME
- 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
- Entry into Glow Wild stops at 8:00 p.m.
- Please give yourself one (1) full hour to see every lantern and to enjoy the entire event.
- Acrobat shows are each night of Glow Wild at 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The show last approximately 20 minutes.
HOLIDAY HOURS
- Days Open
- Friday, Dec. 1 through Sunday, Dec. 3
- Friday, Dec. 8 through Sunday, Dec. 10
- Wednesday, Dec. 13 through Saturday, Dec. 23
- Tuesday, Dec. 26 through Monday, Jan. 1
- Friday, Jan. 5 through Sunday, Jan. 7
- Friday, Jan. 12 through Monday, Jan. 15
- Days Closed
- Christmas Eve (Sunday, Dec. 24)
- Christmas Day (Monday, Dec. 25)
ENTERTAINMENT AT GLOW WILD
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- Acrobat shows at 5:30 and 7:00 p.m. each evening of Glow Wild
- Ride the Red Diamond Express Train
- Climb the Full Moon Bar-B-Que Adventure Tower
- Saturday, Dec. 2 – Beverly’s Dance Studio 5:30 and 7:15 p.m. Red Diamond Sweetride
- Saturday, Dec. 9 – Hoover High Choir and 501st Storm Troopers
- Wednesday, Dec. 13 – Santa
- Thursday, Dec. 14 – Bella Prima – 5:30 p.m.
- Friday, Dec. 15 – Santa
- Sunday, Dec. 17 – Coke Holiday Caravan
- Monday, Dec. 18 – Santa 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
- Thursday, Dec. 21 – Santa 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
- Sunday, Dec. 31 – Zoo Year’s Eve Celebration 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Special NYE drop at 6:00 p.m.
- Saturday, Jan. 6 – Red Diamond Sweetride
To purchase tickets, click HERE
