Chehaw lights up the Christmas holidays with Festival of Lights

The train ride and visits with Santa have been popular with nighttime park visitors

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By Jim Hendricks

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Thursday night saw a large crowd at Chehaw as visitors drove through the lighted displays and waiting in long lines to see additional displays from the park’s trolley train. The park reportedly had its biggest night of the season Dec. 17 when around 350 vehicles passed through the gates. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus will wrap up their visits with children Christmas Eve, but the drive-through displays and trolley train rides will resume Monday following a Christmas Day break and continue through Friday.

Those entering the train ride and Santa’s Workshop area of the Chehaw Festival of Lights drive-through find themselves in the middle of an illuminated snowball fight. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

Children and their families wait for a chance Thursday night to get last-minute wish lists to Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus at Chehaw. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

The Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” inspires a portion of the drive-through Festival of Lights displays at Chehaw. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

Those passing between the Festival of Lights train ride and Santa’s Workshop at Chehaw get a glowing vision of a partridge in a pear tree. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

A canopy of moving lights shows the way to the entrance of Chehaw’s parking lot for those who want to take the train ride or visit Santa’s Workshop during the Festival of Lights. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

Snow is rare as hen’s teeth in Southwest Georgia but these illuminated skaters enjoy the Christmas holidays during Chehaw’s annual festival of Lights. (Staff Photo: Jim Hendricks)

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