The Winter Woods Spectacular

Surprised my husband with a visit here. This year they had people walk through instead of driving. I much prefer to walk the trail. Apparently there is a hidden pumpkin but we weren't told until near the end. It was interesting to see how they repurposed items from the Halloween event. We were disappointed they didn't have any merch to buy at the end. We had hoped to buy an ornament. Overall it is cute for a date night but definitely not as spectacular as the Halloween event.

The winter woods spectacular is a annual holiday lights event held in Iroquois park in Lousiville Kentucky. You enter in at the new cut road and southern parkway entrance. When you hit the fork you take a left down the "one way". There is suppose to be a guy flagging or waving you on but on our visit he just sat there so we thought he was telling us to not go that way and we ended up taking a 3 mile detour through the park and and circling around. You can buy tickets at the main entrance booth once you go the right way or you can purchase online. The online pre purchase is recommended because evidently they can sell out. Pricing is pretty high. It is $35 a car load. I will say this. It's is very pretty and cool but extremely repetitive. You drive very slowly through a wooded trail for a mile or so. The woods is decorated with ginger bread house facades and other holiday type buildings. They have a lot of fake stained glass Christmas's decor of popular Christmas figures, movie/tv stars and cartoons. They have Christmas music playing in different sections throughout. At the very end they do have a cool Ferris wheel penguin decoration that leads you into a beautiful tunnel of lights you drive under. Which is the highlight of the visit. Overall I can say me and the kids finally experienced this. The workers here all kinda had a bad attitude and seemed lazy. Which I get it. It's cold and nobody likes working during the holidays. But if you are charging $35 a carload for Christmas fun then maybe act like you want to be there. As mentioned the decorations were very lovely and pretty. But we all was disappointed in how repetitive it was. They could of really broke it off in sections and each section having a different theme or decor style and it would be immensely better. I'm not sure we will come back unless major changes are made. I'm glad we finally did and seen this yearly attraction. However, if every year is exactly the same it just isn't worth seeing twice. There is all kinds of cool free light shows in Lousiville that offers more variety.

Just okay and yes, I was disappointed with the lights. The pumpkin spectacular had lights in the trees and it was like you were surrounded with lights in some areas. I wanted lights hanging on the trees and hanging down like icicles!!! Wouldn't come again.

The Winter Woods Spectacular was so cute! The wait to get into the trail took about 30-45 minutes, so it actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The trail was lit up with trees, different Christmas characters, and gingerbread houses, and played Christmas music all along the way.The final light tunnel was definitely spectacular! So pretty! My little niece was mesmerized. I would absolutely go back next year.