Winter Magic at Platte Purchase Park
✓ Last confirmed for the 2025 season
Where: Platte Purchase Park, Kansas City, Missouri
When: Late November through January 4
Hours: typically dusk – 10 PM
Cost: free
one-mile drive-through routelights synchronized to music via car radiodrive-thru
This Northland drive-through, in its sixth year for 2025, sends cars along a one-mile route through Platte Purchase Park. The lights are synchronized to holiday music that visitors tune in on their car radios.
Best time to arrive. Sunset in Kansas City is around 4:57 PM in mid-December, fully dark by about 5:27 PM. A typical December night here bottoms out near 23°F, so dress for standing around outside.
Other displays nearby
There are 0 other displays within 5 miles of this one, and 6 within 15 miles. Most people make a loop of it rather than driving out for a single house.
- Timberline Drive Lights
- The Alberton's Holiday House KC
- Coleman Christmas Show
- Christmas in the Park at Longview Lake
- Holiday Reflections at Union Station
- Mayor's Christmas Tree at Crown Center
Make a night of it. This is stop 5 on our 6-stop Kansas City lights loop — about 35.2 miles and 109 minutes of driving in total.