All photographs courtesy of Atlanta Botanic Garden

In need of a heaping dose of holiday cheer? The dazzling holiday light display at the Atlanta Botanical Garden will certainly make your nights merry and bright. A stroll through the garden is a wonderful way to begin the festive season.

The Garden Lights, Holiday Nights tradition started in 2011 with 1 million LED lights being skillfully and esthetically strung about the gardens. Four years later, this sparkling light show, one of the largest holiday light shows in the US, has become a source of pride for the city attracting thousands of visitors all wanting to enjoy this gleaming wintry wonderland.

The illuminated garden paths lead you through 30 acres of lavish designs with sophisticated and fun color schemes combined to create dazzling lighting installations now covered with 1.5 million energy efficient LED lights. There are more than 550,000 feet (168 km) of light strings within the display or 18,000 strings of LED lights to be exact.

A very popular installation is the Orchestral Orbs on the Great Lawn. These vibrant and pulsating hue-changing Orchestral Orbs are choreographed to holiday music that sets the tone for a jolly and merry evening.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden and the lighting designers successfully transformed the monumental 25-foot-tall Lady Topiary also called the Earth Goddess sculpture from Mosaiculture into an eye-catching and glowing Ice Goddess. Her long flowing locks are covered with thousands of white and blue LED lights cascading down like liquid lights.

Wandering through the Funky Forest will put a little extra giddy-up in the steps of the Scroogiest Scrooge. Nothing like a twinkling paradise to propel you into the holiday spirit.

The Kendeda Canopy Walk is a 600-foot-long skywalk that leads you through the Glittering Galaxy all aglow with holiday lights and giant led snowflakes. Roaming carolers fill the air with traditional songs to add ambience and warm visitors’ hearts with holiday magic.
The Garden Lights, Holiday Nights tradition continues till January 3 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden.