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Bright lights and colorful displays are all effectually this season.

Over again Vi Flags Great America in Gurnee is offering seasonal fun with its Holiday in the Park Lights and Holiday in the Park Lights Drive-Thru.

Holiday in the Park Lights continues through Dec. 30 on select nights while the drive-thru experience runs to January. ix on select nights.

"This is our 2d yr for the bulldoze-thru and fourth year for Holiday in the Park Lights (walking experience)," said Caitlin Kepple, communications manager for Six Flags Great America. Kepple said the attraction features more than than 3 million lights.

Many of the features and displays have returned only Kepple said there are a variety of new things for guests to savor.

"We're always thinking of new and heady ways to entertain guests," Kepple said, adding the vacation lights attraction is very family unit friendly and offers a diverseness of things to see, shows to enjoy, shopping options and food as well.

Throughout the theme park, guests can go along select rides during the walking Holiday in the Park Lights pick and they may visit various gift shops and watch shows in certain areas of the park. During the drive-thru feel, guests must remain in their cars throughout the duration of the ride through the grounds.

Kepple said a shop featuring Cookie Decorating was a pop attraction last year and that's been brought back to the park. Visitors may purchase cookies and so take the children decorate them on-site in the shop.

There are as well visits/photos with Santa Claus; s'mores pits; a Letters with Santa opportunity; and a presentation of an Elves Live show besides as other productions.

Kepple said Half dozen Flags Great America did open for the summer season this year later beingness airtight in the summer of 2020. The Holidays in the Park Bulldoze-Thru feel was in operation last season every bit a manner to assistance go on people socially distanced in the midst of the pandemic. It was such a success, Kepple said, that personnel decided to bring it back.

While walking through the park or enjoying a bulldoze, guests volition run across the 50-foot Holiday Foursquare Tree; colorfully busy and lit up bridges; the 50-foot Holiday Square Tree; costumed characters and more.

Also new this yr, Kepple said, is a special children'south area with a Holiday Fun House, which is brightly lit.

Among nutrient that's available for buy at the park are the popular s'mores, which guests may cook over the burn, peppermint funnel cake sundaes; hot chocolate; popcorn; and much more. During the walking experience, various restaurants are open. And if people are doing the drive-thru selection they may gild various foods from funnel cakes and hot chocolate to popcorn and other treats and pick them up at designated spots throughout the park while remaining in their cars.

"One of the new treats this year is the Caramel Apple Funnel Cake Sundae," Kepple said. It joins the peppermint funnel block sundae and other sweets on the treats menu.

Kepple said there are many more than backdrops and other displays for photograph opps this year likewise.

Still in operation is the cashless paying option throughout the park. To keep everything more efficient and safe, guests are asked to make purchases via credit and debit card or mobile apps. Guests may as well transfer cash to a debit menu at special kiosks at the park.

Notwithstanding in operation is the cashless paying option throughout the park. To keep everything more than efficient and safe, guests are asked to make purchases via credit and debit card or mobile apps. Guests may likewise transfer greenbacks to a debit menu at special kiosks at the park.

FYI: For more than information on Six Flags Groovy America'southward Holiday in the Park Lights, visit sixflags.com/greatamerica/events/holiday-in-the-park-lights. For reservations for Six Flags Holiday In The Park Drive-Thru, visit sixflags.com/greatamerica/events/holiday-in-the-park-drive-thru. Reservations are necessary for the drive-thru experience but not for the walking experience.