Botanical Garden Holiday Lights
People look toward lights illuminating the San Francisco Botanical Garden's Fire Garden exhibit for Lightscape at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025.
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A new night-time holiday display in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is delighting visitors with music, colors and over a million twinkling lights. The mile-long illuminated trail at the Botanical Garden features towering peonies and whimsical water lilies. Sarah Marsh from Gardens of Golden Gate Park says the children's reactions are priceless. The immersive holiday trail is called Lightscape. Sister gardens in Chicago, Brooklyn and London also have the event, but this is San Francisco's first. The display has already attracted 100,000 visitors with some eager to return during the day. The show runs through Jan. 4.
