Lake of the Ozarks has holiday lights visitors can drive through
Visitors to the Lake of the Ozarks in central Missouri can experience a mile of dazzling holiday displays at the first annual Lake Holiday Lights Drive-Thru Light Park.
The display is at the new Osage Beach City Park off Highway 54, and will be up through New Year’s Eve. The park is next to the 110-store Osage Beach Premium Outlets mall.
The park will be open from 5:30 p.m. till 9, Wednesday through Sunday, and the entire week of Dec. 25-31. The cost is $10 a car.
The park has more than 80 lighted displays, including animated scenes, light tunnels, leaping reindeer, Santa on a wave runner and Rudolph fishing.
Santa will be on hand Fridays and Saturdays at Holiday Village, where community organizations will be raising funds by selling hot cocoa and snacks.
Visitors will be able to tune in the park’s holiday music on their car radios as they drive through.
Several resorts and hotels are including light-park tickets in specially priced stay-and-shop packages. For more information, call 1-800-451-4117, or visit www.lakeholidaylights.com.




Tom Uhlenbrock has been roaming the Midwest for eons, looking for rivers to float, wineries to visit, trails to hike, saloons to haunt, cozy places to stay. Let's share, and advice is free.
Awesome. I hate getting out of the car or off a couch to do anything.
They’re called CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!!!! Why is the post so afraid of the word Christmas? “Holiday Light’s”…please. You nuts can impose your politically correct terms on us all you want. I’ll just defy you even more and never refer to anything as holiday.
Thank you SO MUCH, Mike. You are correct…they are CHRISTMAS lights. For what other reason would one see Santa, Rulolph, etc., other than Christmas? Why was this light display REALLY created? Christmas, of course!