Nov 17^th 2022 – Jan 1^st 2023: Santa’s Village (Skypark at Santa’s Village)

As probably the most Christmas-centric theme park in Southern California, Santa’s Village is a year-round Christmas attraction where you can meet Santa and Mrs Claus in their home-away-from-the-North-Pole as well as a host of Christmas and Northwoods-related characters! When the year draws towards the Holiday season, Santa’s Village pulls out all the stops!

Santa’s Village is full of lights for the evening, and you can also enjoy the Fantasy Forest Experience with a dazzling light display narrated by an ancient talking tree! As for Holiday and Christmas activities during the day, you can visit his workshop where you can experience making an ornament or toy, or the post office where elves sort his mail (and you can write him your own letter).  Ride the Northwoods express train, skate in the Silver Bells arena, enjoy a magician or puppet show or sing and dance to Christmas songs with Kid’s Imagine Nation.  To top it off, visit Santa’s house, enjoy their tree lighting show and interact with all the Northwoods characters!

During the rest of the year, you can still spend time with Santa and the Northwoods characters, but there is also a bike park for multiple skill levels, ziplining, climbing tower, archery, Axe throwing, a sharpshooters gallery, Fishing and a whole lot more!  There appears to be plenty of outdoor and indoor adventures for both kids and adults alike!

Nov 29^th 2022 – Jan 1^st 2023: Pirates take Christmas at the Pirates Dinner Show Adventure

Those despicable Pirates are at it again!  Having recovered from their brush with vampirism during the Halloween season, the pirates have set their sights on stealing Christmas!  Will they succeed in capturing Santa and Mrs Claus and thereby end the holiday season?  According to the website, Santa and Mrs Claus need your help, along with a little holiday magic to defeat the pirates and save Christmas all the good boys and girls of the world!

The Pirates Dinner Show adventure is set aboard a fully rigged 18^th century Spanish galleon floating in a 250,000-gallon lagoon.  You and your party are given seats around the galleon with a pirate’s-eye view of the ship and are served a set menu (Vegetarian and Vegan options available) and can enjoy various cocktails and drinks.  This is a family fun event.

Dec 9^th 2022 – Jan 1^st 2023: Jungle Bells (Featuring the Aurora Light Show) at the San Diego Zoo

Jungle Bells at the San Diego Zoo adds a bunch of whimsical Holiday and Christmas activities to your zoo experience!  During the late afternoons and early evenings a whole range of activities occur including a holiday troubadour, juggling, story-telling, acrobatics, an acapella group, organized games and more!  You can even visit Santa at his factory to visit with Santa and get a photo.

As far as lights, the Front Street Toog Tree is lit and choreographed to holiday music with a show every 30 minutes from 4:55pm, and then at 6pm the first of two Aurora light experiences start with the Aurora Pathways.  New in 2022, with music and light effects and expanding upon the Aurora experience, friendly sprites will greet guests as the travel the paths to meet up at the Aurora light show.  A combination of light, sound and 3d projection with live performers, the Aurora spectacular highlights the beauty of wind, water and ice.

Also keep in mind to visit the Northern Frontier, a festive forest pathway located around the Polar Bear Plunge, with its holiday décor and tree lighting.  On top of the holiday decorations you’ll see polar bears, reindeer and more denizens of the frozen North.

Nov 5^th 2022 – Jan 1^st 2023: A Cabazon Dinosaurs Christmas

An Iconic roadside attraction, The Cabazon dinosaurs make for one of the more unusual Christmas attractions in SoCal.  The 65-foot (20m) tall Tyrannosaurus (Mr) Rex is re-painted with a Santa-Suit to celebrate the season and from dusk to 8pm on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays the many dinosaurs of the dinosaur walk are festively lit for your enjoyment.  During the day the dinosaur walk includes many pictures opportunities, a dino-dig, and fossil panning (though it appears not so many Holiday and Christmas activities).  Another unusual feature of the attraction is that the gift shop is located inside the body of Dinny (the 150-foot or 46-meter-long Brontosaurus statue).