Garden Lights, Holiday Nights at Atlanta Botanical Garden

Garden Lights, Holiday Nights fills the Atlanta Botanical Garden with millions of brilliantly colored LED lights and displays, and it won ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight in 2023. The evening has its own food scene: the Magnolia Bistro sets up near the cone tree by the Great Lawn, garden bars pour hot chocolate and cider, spiked if you like, and s'mores kits are sold for roasting in the Skyline Garden. The show goes on rain or shine.

Our take: Look at the Night Light tickets, which cover entry after 9:30 p.m. and are the season's best value.