5:00 - 8:00 pm at the Conservatory
Visit the Conservatory during evening hours and view the dazzling display in the Seasonal House featuring the “Volunteer Park Express” model train set and more poinsettias than you can imagine!
Seasonal House display with model train running
Palm House Gift Shop - open!
Tickets available for a random drawing to win your own train set!
Five warm houses full of plants to explore!
Free cocoa and cookies provided at the entrance!
Invite your friends and family to experience the drama of the plant displays illuminated after-dark while sipping cocoa and joining the community for this festive tradition.
The Conservatory will be open for an hour before the rest of the festivities begin, so get to the park and warm up with a stroll through the dramatic plant displays. This is a free event! Donations will be gladly accepted by the Friends of the Conservatory in the Palm House Gift Shop to help offset costs.
Palm House Gift Shop
Check off your holiday gift-giving list with purchases in the Palm House Gift Shop and enter the random drawing to win a train set of your own - makes a great gift! You’ll not only bring joy to a special person with a treasure from the gift shop, you’ll also be supporting the nonprofit Friends of the Conservatory with every purchase.
We hope you’ll join us for this festive community event. It’s truly a special experience not to be missed!
Holiday in the Park!
Holiday in the Park! is a park-wide event hosted by the Volunteer Park Trust with activities at both the Conservatory and Seattle Asian Art Museum. Activities outside of the SAAM will be held from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Check the event page for details.
Live music!
Craft tent for kids!
The park paths will be lined with over 600 luminarias guiding merrymakers from the Conservatory to the Seattle Asian Art Museum and back. Enjoy cocoa and cookies while strolling between venues to take in the festivities throughout Volunteer Park.
There will be two cookie and cocoa tents this year - one in front of the Conservatory, and the 2nd across from the SAAM.