Dallas Zoo Lights
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Dallas Zoo, 650 South R.L. Thornton Freeway, Dallas, Texas
When: November 14, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
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The Dallas Zoo's after-hours holiday event combines thousands of twinkling lights with animal-shaped, silk-covered lanterns throughout the grounds.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Dallas is around 5:23 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:50 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 36°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 12 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 16 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- 12 Days of Christmas on Timberhollow Circle
- Astra Lumina at Trinity Forest Adventure Park
- Elderoaks Lights
- Galleria Dallas Christmas Tree
- Kessler Park
- AT&T Discovery District
- The Adolphus Hotel holiday lobby
- Fairmont Dallas holiday tree
Make a night of it. This is stop 8 on our 15-stop Dallas lights loop — about 29.2 miles and 130 minutes of driving in total.