Winter Lights Festival Returns to Seneca Creek Park

[Howard Hartman]

City of Gaithersburg Press Release
For Immediate Release          November 17, 2010

Winter Lights Festival Returns to Seneca Creek Park

Discount Coupons Available at Washingtonian Center Retailers

Gaithersburg, MD – (November 17, 2010) It is time again for the annual Winter Lights Festival to return to Seneca Creek State Park, located at 11950 Clopper Road, just a few miles west of the intersection with I-270. The festival runs from December 3, 2010 through January 1, 2011. Winter Lights is open on Sundays and Tuesday through Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. The Festival is closed on all Mondays and on December 25. There will be a sneak peek at the Festival on Friday and Saturday, November 26 and 27.

Cash-only admission is $12 per car Tuesday through Thursday, but you can save a little money by using $2 off coupons for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday admission. You’ll find the coupons at participating retailers at nearby Washingtonian Center, exit 9B off of I-270 in Gaithersburg. Please note that Friday, Saturday and Sunday admission is $15 per car. Coupons are not valid on these days.

In the spirit of the holidays, proceeds from the 2010 festival will benefit local charities, including the Dolores Swoyer Camp Scholarship Fund, Gaithersburg Community Volunteer Soup Kitchen, Friends of Seneca Creek State Park, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Gaithersburg HELP, and the Gaithersburg Holiday Giving Program.

The Winter Lights Festival is sponsored in part by MIX 107.3 FM, Washingtonian Center, Comcast, the Gazette Newspapers, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, MedImmune, Hughes Network Systems, OBA Bank, Montgomery Life Magazine, Washington Parent Magazine, Premier Values Magazine, New Tang Dynasty TV-DC & The Epoch Times-DC, and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

For more information and group admission rates please call 301-258-6350.

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