TOLEDO, Ohio — The Toledo Zoo's Lights Before Christmas display finished second in the USA Today's Best Zoo Lights contest.
The Cincinnati Zoo's PNC Festival of Lights finished in first for the fourth year in a row as results were announced Friday. The Toledo Zoo came in second for the fourth consecutive year.
USA Today 10Best is asks readers every year to vote for their favorite zoo lights.
The displays up for consideration this year were:
- Bronx Zoo Holiday Lights
- Christmas at the Zoo at the Indianapolis Zoo
- Dallas Zoo Lights
- Electric Safari at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (Colorado Springs)
- Holiday Lights at California Living Museum (Bakersfield, California)
- Jungle Bells at the San Diego Zoo
- L.A. Zoo Lights
- Lights Before Christmas at Riverbanks Zoo & Garden (Columbia, South Carolina)
- Lights Before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo
- Philadelphia Zoo Luminature
- PNC Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo
- U.S. Bank Wild Lights at the Saint Louis Zoo
- Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo
- Wildlanterns at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
- Wildlights at Living Desert Zoo and Gardens (Palm Desert, California)
- Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo
- Zoo Lights at the Houston Zoo
- Zoolights at Lincoln Park Zoo (Chicago)
- Zoolights at Smithsonian's National Zoo (Washington, DC)
- Zootastic Park Christmas Wonderland (Troutman, NC)
PHOTOS: Lights Before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo
Last year, the PNC Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo won top honors for the zoo's third win. The Toledo Zoo's Lights Before Christmas was ranked No. 1 in 2017 and was runner up in 2020, 2019 and 2018.
The 2021 installment of Lights Before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo will feature more than a million holiday lights and some 200 illuminated animal images, as well as an ice slide, photo ops with Santa and an 85-foot Norway spruce tree decorated with 35,000 LED bulbs.