Light Up The Lake (Winter WonderFest) 2024-2025 in Chicago

If you don't like winter festivities because of the cold, then Light Up The Lake (Winter WonderFest) at Navy Pier will be a great option for you! It offers all the fun things that come with winter indoors, so you never have to worry about the weather. The 170,000-square-foot Festival Hall is transformed into a winter wonderland, filled with 500 Christmas trees that are lit up with about 25,000 lights and decorated with ornaments.

Light Up The Lake Highlights

Light Up The Lake offers the iconic Centennial Wheel rides, axe throwing, the beer garden, craft workshops, shopping at local holiday artisan markets, fireworks on Saturdays, and exciting new holiday-themed drone shows. Additionally, don't waste the opportunity of a special meet and greet with Santa. Light Up The Lake is the city's largest indoor playground, visited by millions of families every year.

Light Up The Lake is packed with fun attractions, including an inflatable slide, a carousel, spinning cups, and a train. Arctic Express is a trackless 300-foot train that takes visitors for a ride around the holiday light display. Attractions such as Centennial Wheel, Candy Cane Lighthouse, Holiday Howdy Horse, Ice Peaks Climbing Walls, Snowman Bouncer, and others are loved by a lot of kids and adults.

Reflecting Pond is a beautiful serene area with many fantastic photo-ops. Birch Tree Forest is an exciting maze of more than 100 illuminated tall birch trees. Roseaux is an immersive and interactive art installation, which consists of 12 individual reeds that rise into the sky,

Tickets

Centennial Wheel & Ice Slide ticket costs $27, Centennial Wheel, Ice Slide & Axe Throwing is $12, Wheel, Slide, Axe Throwing, Carousel, Tea Cups & Wave Swinger is $47, Centennial Wheel is priced at $18, Ice Slide is $12, Wave Swinger is $9, Tea Cups is $5, and Carousel is $5.