Kennywood Park Holiday Lights 2021

As roller coaster enthusiasts & amusement park junkies, we always get pretty sad as the summer season winds down.
We simply live in the wrong part of the country to have local roller coasters that we can enjoy year-round.

There is always one LIGHT at the end of the tunnel though (get it? HAHA)
Our home park – Kennywood – always puts on a tremendous Christmas event! With over one million lights strung up around the park, it truly is a spectacle to see! We LOVE Holiday Lights!

The park is generally open in the evenings on the weekends leading up to Christmas & we seem to always underestimate how much time we’ll spend there. We always go right when the park opens, and year-after-year assume that 2-3 hours is plenty of time to take in everything Kennywood has to offer. After all, most of the rides are closed. But, then we go, and we realize that we could easily spend 4-5 hours in the park! There is just so much to see & take in, experience, eat, and yes: ride.

New for 2021: Kennywood even has one of their roller coasters running – Jack Rabbit! (weather permitting – it does have to be above a certain temperature or they risk the train moving too slow & “valleying”) It wasn’t open for Passholder Preview Night because it was to cold (temps were in the low 30’s), but we have high hopes that one of these weekends when we go, it’ll be running! We’re all dying to get one last roller coaster ride in for 2021!

If you’ve never been to Kennywood for their Christmas event, we HIGHLY recommend it! It’s sure to put you in the Christmas spirit! Kennywood is a beautiful park, but when they transform it with a million Christmas lights, it literally becomes a magical wonderland. There are rides open (make sure to walk thru Noah’s Ark & ride Ghostwood Estates – both are “Christmasfied”) and you can get some Potato Patch Fries for the last time before winter sets in & we’re all stuck inside for a few months. Seriously – how could it get any better?

If you want to go back & see some photos from our previous years enjoying Holiday Lights, you can hop back to 2018 here and 2017 here – even though we went to Holiday Lights in 2019, I didn’t write a blog post about it & thanks to the pandemic, Kennywood did not host Holiday Lights in 2020.

And because – what’s a blog post without photos – here are just a few (these are a mix of iPhone snaps & photos taken with my “big” camera).

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