River of Lights/ Albuquerque, New Mexico
Posted: December 25, 2019 Filed under: deserts | Tags: Albuquerque, New Mexico Leave a commentClick any photo to view slideshow
The River of Lights is a holiday light display that runs at the Albuquerque BioPark Botanic Garden for the month of December. The event started in 1997 to raise money for the park which has a zoo, aquarium, botanic garden, and beach.
There are nearly 600 individual light displays with millions of twinkling lights, and the park employs three full-time craftsmen year-round to build new exhibits and to maintain the existing ones. It takes about two months to set up the holiday display. One of the crowd favorites is a 63 foot (19 meters) brontosaurus, named “One-Ton” because of the weight of its metal frame. “One-Ton” took nearly 600 hours to build, and has 4,000 feet (1,219 meters) of rope light.
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