Alaska Botanical Garden holiday walk lights up the woods in East Anchorage

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This year’s Alaska Botanical Garden Holiday Lights show saw sold-out crowds leading up to Christmas.

The half-mile loop trail was illuminated by glowing ice luminarias, colorful trees and hanging lights. Farther into the wooded garden, tunnels of red, green and white lights lit the way as groups stopped for family photos and children giggled and ran under them.

There are at least 20,000 individual lights within the entire display, including 12 lighted 40-foot-tall spruce trees.

The event also features kicksledding, a model train exhibit and fire pit warming stations.

In its fourth year, the Holiday Lights show began at the end of November and will continue next week through the end of January. For more information on dates and times, or to purchase tickets, visit alaskabg.org.