Colors of the Wild at Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: 370 Zoo Pkwy, Jacksonville, Florida
When: Select nights, November through February
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
70+ illuminated Asian lantern displaysone of the largest lantern events in the USticketedattraction
One of the country's largest Asian lantern festivals, with more than 70 glowing lantern displays spread through the Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens on select nights from November into February. Pricing varies by night.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Jacksonville is around 5:28 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:54 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 48°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There is 1 other display within 5 miles of this one, and 13 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Mikayla's Magical Christmas Light Show
- Christmas Tree at James Weldon Johnson Park
- Arbor Glade Subdivision
- Blackhawk Bluff Subdivision
- Dazzling Nights at the Jacksonville Arboretum & Botanical Gardens
- Downtown Jacksonville Holiday Lights (Laura Street)
- Go Tuk'n Holiday Lights Tour
- Greenwood Subdivision
Make a night of it. This is stop 12 on our 14-stop Jacksonville lights loop — about 30.6 miles and 129 minutes of driving in total.