Oglebay’s Festival of Lights closes out their season of holiday enjoyment

WHEELING W.Va. (WTRF) It is an Ohio Valley steady and delivers pleasure to families all in the course of the holiday break season. Oglebay’s Competition of Lights is wrapping up their 36^th year of celebrating.  

It’s 6 miles of 1000’s of lights displaying inventive scenes and holiday getaway people, but it does not prevent there. At Oglebay they also have a selection of events for everyone to get pleasure from.  

President and CEO of the Wheeling Park commission Bob Peckenpaugh says this 12 months was unbelievably prosperous. Families drove from all above to experience Oglebay’s display stopping lights and holiday activities.  

The success is just above whelming. The quantities are up from 2019 if you appear again to more of an common year pre pandemic. Almost 8,000 more automobiles came by means of this calendar year than that year in particular. But overall, it’s up 36% so we’re quite thrilled with how almost everything has gone this calendar year.

Bob Peckenpaugh, President and CEO of the Wheeling Park fee

He states generations of family members arrive each yr to the pageant. For a lot of persons it is turn out to be a amazing custom. 

Whilst they keep some enthusiast most loved shows, they like to add and change a number of points each and every yr.  

You know we experienced a welcome tree this yr, 70 ft tall tree on top of the hilltop, which I think was truly the major issue. It was programmed with some amazing songs and the gentle show dances around with the tunes so that was a good deal of enjoyment. We included some sound in candy cane lane on the main drive from Route 88 about to Wilson Lodge, that got a whole lot of pleasurable and excitement.

Bob Peckenpaugh, President and CEO of the Wheeling Park commission

Regretably, the enjoyable must come to an stop, tonight is the last time you can delight in it.  

Peckenpaugh says they have a couple of fascinating strategies for next year’s competition of lights and search forward to owning every person back again future 12 months.