USA Today’s 10Best voters have again selected Silver Dollar City’s Christmas festival as the nation’s “Best Theme Park Holiday Event.” It’s the seventh time “An Old Time Christmas” has earned the honor.
The ranking is the result of several weeks of online voting on the USA Today website.
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Silver Dollar City’s Christmas celebration began in 1988, with strands of lights and Christmas caroling in Town Square. It has since grown in to a best-in-class festival featuring 6.5 million lights, two Broadway-style Christmas shows, Rudolph’s Holly Jolly Christmas Light Parade, the “Christmas in Midtown Light Spectacular,” endless holiday comfort foods, and much more.
The most recent major festival addition was “Joy on Town Square” in 2019. The experience includes an eight-story LED special effect Christmas tree capable of displaying a variety of graphics from more than a million points of illumination.
Plans for the 2025 Christmas festival include a new live tree and nightly lighting celebration in the expanded Plaza area, as well as a new Christmas show featuring the Queen of Bluegrass Rhonda Vincent.
“An Old Time Christmas” runs now through Jan. 4.
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