FEATURED EVENTS

Experience the magic of Christmas at Santa’s Wonderland at your local Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s! Advance reservations are required in all locations and can go quickly. Families who visit Santa receive a free 4x6 studio-quality photo, as well as a free digital video greeting card to share on social media. Additional photo packages are also available for purchase and print instantly in the store.

STEP INTO A WHIMSICAL WORLD OF LIGHT! Don’t miss the chance to attend a one-of-a-kind light festival in NYC. All ages are welcome. Come join NYC Winter Lantern Festival as we night the light and transform Queens County Farm into an immersive and radiant oasis! From 11/25/21 to 1/9/22, enter an unforgettable world of color with friends and family as we Illuminate The Farm. This experience will be a dazzling display of festive holiday lights and handmade lanterns in the shape of flowers, tractors, your favorite farm animals, and many many more. We’re lighting the New York City night! This is one of three dazzling events NYC Winter Lantern Festival is hosting in 2021.

CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE lights up the stage in this awe-inspiring and eyepopping family holiday spectacular. This annual tradition wraps a whimsical, Broadway-style musical infused with contemporary circus artistry into the ultimate holiday gift for the entire family!

Join us Saturday, December 4th from 11am to 4pm for our 2021 Holiday Carnival! Carolers, Brass Band playing holiday favorites, Roaming Stilt Walkers & Santa’s Workshop Children’s Gift Store (12-4pm) All proceeds go directly to charity. (Located inside the Meetinghouse).

Grab you fleece, hats, gloves, coats and woolies and throw on your winter boots! Queens County Farm Museum will host a special outdoor holiday reading of O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi. This special admission program is designed to enrich the holiday season. Renowned actor and raconteur, Queens native Kevin R. Free will lead story time in the farm’s 3-acre pasture. First published in 1905, The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry tells the story of struggling newlyweds so eager to give each other a Christmas gift that each sells the one thing the other holds most dear. O. Henry penned The Gift of the Magi at Pete’s Tavern, New York City’s longest continually operated bar and restaurant. Since 1905, this story has secured its place among the American literary canon and has become synonymous with the Christmas season.

The 2021 Holiday Lights Spectacular will begin on Friday, November 19th. The Holiday Lights Spectacular returns to Olde Mistick Village! The largest holiday light display in southern New England begins on November 19th and will run through the end of January 2021. Over a half-million lights will decorate the Olde Mystic Village square of shops and restaurants for families and holiday enthusiasts to enjoy. “Olde Mistick Village will continue to be a safe place for families to come and enjoy the holiday season. We are incredibly excited to be hosting another extraordinary lighting display for guests to enjoy while enjoying shopping and a great meal,” said Chris Regan, property manager of Olde Mistick Village. “Over the summer we had thousands of families come and experience the village safely. With this year’s Holiday Lights Spectacular, we wanted our guests to experience the holidays in a way that brings people hope and comfort during these uncertain times.”