Carolina Holiday Light Spectacular at Ballantyne's Backyard

About this adventure

The Carolina Holiday Light Spectacular transforms South Charlotte's rolling 100-acre Ballantyne's Backyard community park into an illuminated holiday walk-through trail with more than one million twinkling LED lights. Visitors wander through a wonderland of dozens of larger-than-life holiday vignettes, including giant candy canes, 20-foot illuminated toy soldiers, an oversized walk-through snow globe, an igloo village, and a sparkling gingerbread lane. Children can meet Santa in his workshop, slide down the synthetic snow slide, and enjoy regular faux snow flurry shows that dust the courtyard. Hot cocoa stations, cider bars, and gourmet food trucks provide warm treats along the trail. The walking trail follows paved cart paths and firmly packed crushed gravel loops that are easily navigated with all-terrain strollers and wagons. Accessible portable restrooms with baby changing counters and handwashing stations are placed at the entrance plaza and midway point. Free parking is available in the adjacent corporate campus parking decks with direct flat walkway access into the park.