Winter Lights

Asheville’s Brightest Holiday Tradition! Winter Lights is a walk-through holiday spectacular featuring over one million lights.

Winter Lights shines a glow on the natural world and majestic gardens of the Arboretum. This year’s show will introduce new sights and sounds that transport guests through a spectacular and enchanting evening.

Revel in Winter Lights as the formal gardens are illuminated with immersive displays and new experiences like the deep and inviting “Forest Floor” where mushrooms carpet the ground. Stroll below the lily pads in “Beneath the Riverbed” or wander among the giant dragonflies in “Between Water and Woods.”

Winter Lights features live entertainment nightly and food and beverages from the Bent Creek Bistro, the Cocoa Shack and the Cocoa Cabin! Open nightly from 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.

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For more than 35 years…Cultivating Connections between People, Plants and Places…amid a 434-acre public garden, The North Carolina Arboretum is located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest just south of Asheville and adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 393. Surrounded and crisscrossed by forested coves and meandering creeks in the botanically diverse Southern Appalachian Mountains, The North Carolina Arboretum is set in one of the most beautiful natural settings in America. ncarboretum.org