30th Anniversary Zoolights comes to life in more than 700,000 brilliant LEDs

30 years and Zoolights – with more than 700,000 brilliantly colorful, energy-efficient LEDs – is the Puget Sound region’s longest-running, best-loved holiday lights extravaganza. Zoolights begins Nov. 23 (the day after Thanksgiving) and runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. nightly, with a one-night closure on Dec. 24. There are majestic polar bears and walruses on ice floes; sledding penguins; ice-skating puffins; a 100-foot-wide octopus; a 3-D sea turtle; a howling red wolf; a carnivorous plant; and nursery rhyme figures like Humpty-Dumpty and the Cheshire Cat. Made-to-scale replicas of Mount Rainier and the twin Tacoma Narrows bridges (complete with traffic) tower over the landscape. And even Sasquatch will pop up on the zoo grounds.